ISET welcomes Professor Maksym Obrizan as a Visiting Professor for the period of May 24 through June 27, 2015. Prof. Maksym Obrizan currently holds a position of Assistant Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics and of Senior Economist at Kyiv Economics Institute.
At ISET Prof. Obrizan will be primarily engaged in teaching Macroeconomics V, obligatory 3-credit course and Financial Econometrics, an elective 3-credit course during miniterm V. He will also provide informal advice to second-year students who work on their MA theses.
On May 20-22, 2015 Lasha Labadze, Deputy Director of ISET Policy Institute attended the Third Global Think Tank Summit in Manila, Philippines. The Summit was co-hosted by Asian Development Bank (ADB), the ADB Institute, and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the University of Pennsylvania. The general topic of the summit was Inclusive Knowledge Partnerships for Development and it comprised panel discussions on best practices and innovative knowledge partnerships.
A panel of thought leaders shared succinct views on how international organizations can engage in knowledge partnerships.