ISET Alumnae Lands Tenure-Track Teaching Position in Italy
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Distinguished ISET graduate and recent recipient of a Doctorate of Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Salome Baslandze has recently been awarded a tenure track professorship at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) in Rome, Italy. There she will be teaching classes and continuing her research on growth, technological change, firm dynamics, and the dynamics of innovation. Salome will also be serving as an academic adviser and research supervisor for the Institute’s Ph.D. students.
Salome was able to secure the position through the Economics Job Market. The hiring process was extremely competitive and required several stages of review and interviews. She first interviewed for the job while attending meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) in Boston Massachusetts this year, and later got the opportunity to visit EIEF to meet staff and give a sample lecture.
ENPARD Workshop at ISET
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On November 24, the ISET Policy Institute hosted an ENPARD workshop representing all four consortia (CARE, OXFAM, Mercy Corps, and PIN). The workshop featured Michaela Garguláková from People In Need (PIN) who talked about the Monitoring and Evaluation system and gave a presentation about the monitoring indicators of the ENPARD project. She also talked about Open Data Kit which is an innovative data collection tool that facilitates data collection process in the field. In addition, Lasha Lanchava from the ISET team presented his proposal aimed at evaluating the impact of ENPARD grants on cooperative behavior of firms and firm performance.
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