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When:  October 18, 12:00 Where:  GSOM SPbU campus, Volkhovskiy per., 3, room 309 Recommended for:  Students and alumni of postgraduates programs: Masters, MBA, EMBA Language:  English

 

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About Speaker

 

Ivan Tchakarov

Citibank, Head of Russia/CIS Economics. 

 

Ivan has covered Russia and the region for more than 10 years now at Citigroup, Renaissance Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Nomura and Lehman Brothers. He has been awarded for the accuracy of his forecasts by ConsensusEconomics, FocusEconomics, etc. He started his professional career at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. There he worked in the Research Department, building large-scale macroeconomic forecasting models, and the Asian Pacific Department, where he was the Lead Economist for Thailand, Myanmar and the Maldives. He has numerous publications in scholarly journals in the area of open-economy macroeconomics and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters TV, Russia 24, RBC and others. He has been quoted in the FT, WSJ, NYT, The Economist and writes regularly for Vedomosti, the main Russian business daily.

Ivan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis, in the US. He also has a MA in Transition Economics from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

 

Time and Place

When:  October 18, 12:00

Where:  GSOM SPbU campus, Volkhovskiy per., 3, room 309