Current LSE-Miguel Dols Fellows (Winter Term 2024)
Prof. Burhan Can Karahasan (in X/Twitter @bckarahasan)
Burhan Can Karahasan is a Professor in Economics at the MEF University. He is currently also a Research Fellow for the Economic Research Forum (ERF). In 2014 he spent one year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the LSE (Research on South Eastern Europe). Karahasan was also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Barcelona in 2010. Karahasan received his PhD in Economics from Marmara University. He received his BA degree in Economics from Istanbul University and also holds a MA degree in Economics and Finance from Boğaziçi University. His main area of research is economic development and regional economics. Karahasan received the PhD Award of Turkish Economic Association in 2010 and the Ibn Khaldun Research Prize of Middle East and Economic Association in 2013. His research has been supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, the Economic Research Forum and the UK Research and Innovation Fund. He is the co-editor of three books on Turkish economy and has book chapters and articles on regional and development economics.
Assoc. Prof. Min Zhang
Min Zhang is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Business School at Soochow University. She completed her PhD in Economics at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and has published her research in journals such as the Regional Studies, Journal of Regional Science and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Her current research interests include government institutions, social capital, drivers of firm and regional innovation, population aging, amenities, fiscal policy and regional inequality.
Dr. Irakli Barbakadze
Irakli Barbakadze is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is involved in the POPBACK project, which studies how populist governments increase their political power by undermining the rule of law in the areas of the labor market and corporate governance. Currently, Irakli investigates how populist governments affect labor regulation and shareholder protection in a multi-country setup. He obtained a PhD in Management from Henley Business School, University of Reading and his dissertation investigates the causes and consequences of firms' corporate political activities. In particular, Irakli studies how firms engage in political activities (such as political connections and lobbying) and how these political activities affect firm-level outcomes. Currently, Dr. Barbakadze is working on lobbying practices in the UK using the novel data of ministerial meetings between interest groups and government officials.
Dr. Giacomo Rella
Giacomo Rella is a postdoctoral researcher at Roma Tre University and an associated researcher with the GC Wealth Project at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Universities of Siena, Pisa, and Florence, and has held visiting positions at Gent University, University of Massachusetts in Boston, and City University of New York (Graduate Center).
His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, and inequality. Currently, his research primarily focuses on examining the distributional consequences of macroeconomic policies and investigating the impact of shocks to natural resource sectors on local fiscal policy.
PhD. Candidate Clara Dallaire-Fortier
Clara Dallaire-Fortier is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. Her doctoral work focuses on the implications of mine closure on regional vulnerabilities. She locates the research within the fields of economic geography and ecological economics as it raises essential questions on the nature of industrial transition in extractive regions.
She is an economic alumnus of McGill University (BA), Université Paris Sorbonnes Cité (Master, M2), and University of Witwatersrand (MCom) and worked in diverse research institutes and NGOs.
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PhD. Candidate Doglas Nunes de Sousa (in X/Twitter @DNunes_de_Sousa)
Doglas Nunes de Sousa is a PhD candidate at the Department of Comparative Political Economy at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. His research interests include the knowledge economy, skills, labour market, technological changes, and regional policy. His current research focuses on the nexus between higher education policies and transformations of the labour market within the scope of the knowledge economy. In particular, he analyses the impact of technological change on higher education and labour market policies in varying regions of Ireland and Spain.