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Beata Javorcik
EBRD
Chief Economist
Description
As EBRD Chief Economist, Beata Javorcik sits on the Bank’s Executive Committee and advises the President and other senior members of the management team on economic issues of strategic or operational relevance to the EBRD regions.
The Chief Economist provides thought leadership, both inside and outside of the EBRD, on economic issues related to the Bank’s work in its countries of operation. The Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) undertakes and presents its own research, representing the Bank at high-level external policy and academic conferences and workshops. It publishes in academic and non-academic outlets and maintains strong links between the EBRD and academia.
The Chief Economist further ensures that the EBRD’s economics research agenda keeps the Bank at the forefront of understanding when it comes to the economic and strategic challenges facing the EBRD regions, helping the Bank to formulate effective policy responses.
OCE is also responsible for macroeconomic forecasting. It contributes to the work of the Bank’s Risk Management division in building scenarios for identifying and navigating emergent risks and conducting stress testing. OCE also assists regional economists with timely cross-country macroeconomic analysis and economic forecasting.
Professor Javorcik is on leave from the University of Oxford, where she holds a Statutory Professorship in Economics (the first woman to do so) and is a Fellow of All Souls College. She is a Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Rochester.
Before taking up her position at Oxford University, she worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she focused on research, lending operations and policy advice.
Professor Javorcik specialises in international trade. Her research interests focus on the determinants and consequences of inflows of foreign direct investment, the implications of services liberalisation, the evaluation of investment promotion programmes, the propagation of shock through production networks and the evasion of import duties. Her research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics.
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