### I'm an economic, social and gender
consultant based in Mauritius. I have
conducted policy work for the EBRD,
World Bank, IMF, Council of Europe
Development Bank, UNDP, the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank, AfDB,
European Commission and UN ESCWA. My
work has covered Eastern Europe, Asia,
and Africa, and I'm fluent in English,
Bulgarian, Russian and Italian, and
have a working knowledge of French.
### Previously, I was an Assistant
Professor in Economics at the School
of Slavonic and East European Studies
at University College London, and an
economist at the EBRD in London, where
I was also head investigator for the
EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition
Survey. I'm currently a
Principal Investigator on a project to
study gender-based violence in the
UAE. I am an honorary research fellow
at UCL, a fellow at the Global Labor
Organization, and I am also affiliated
with IOS-Regensburg and CELSI,
Slovakia. ### I received my PhD
from Princeton University in 2011, and
my undergraduate degree from
Gettysburg College in the US. Before
grad school, I was an associate at
Charles River Associates in
Washington, DC, working on competition
economics. I have published widely on
gender economics, labor, social and
economic development,
entrepreneurship, political economy,
economic history, comparative politics
and democratization, and the politics
and economics of development and
transition.