CEO of Constantia Beteiligungs AG, an international investment holding based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Severin Meister, born 9 January 1981 in Germany, is the CEO of Constantia Beteiligungs AG, an international
investment holding based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

He is also a board member of Schrack Technik International AG, Chairman of Energo Aragvi Ltd. and several other companies across various sectors in Europe, Central Asia and America.

Since 2013, he is a Senior Advisor to the Munich Security Conference. He served as Commanding Officer of a Submarine in the German Navy, as well as member of the Policy Planning Staff in the German Ministry of Defence, Berlin. His current military rank is Commander / Lieutenant Colonel (NATO OF 4).

Severin Meister holds a degree in Law from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and a degree in Economics from the Free University of Bolzano. He also studied Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. His focus of study was on Law and Economics, and he was a mentor to the Law and Economics program at the Free University of Bolzano. Severin Meister is a frequent guest lecturer on investments, taxation, legal stability and free markets at several summer schools. Since the foundation of his first tech startup facilitating the use of databases for small businesses, he has also had a keen interest in the use of deep learning algorithms for the analysis of big data and the impact these new technologies have on businesses and society.

As part of his charitable work Severin Meister is a board member of the Katharina Turnauer Privatstiftung, Vienna (an incubator for social business
start-ups) and of the Otto-von-Habsburg-Foundation, Munich and Budapest, (promoting the European unification across CEE). He trains boyscouts as ship captain for the youth sailing association ‘Brigantine Falado von Rhodos’. 

From 1998 to 2010, he worked as Assistant to Dr. Otto von Habsburg in the European Parliament and on international assignments. 

Severin Meister is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. His hobbies include sailing on all oceans, skiing, jetsurfing and marathons.

  Academic Director at BEROC

Mykhaylo Salnykov is an Academic Director at BEROC. He earned his PhD in Economics at the Simon Fraser University (Canada) in 2008 supplemented by two Masters in Economic Theory (Kyiv School of Economics, 2004) and Environmental Sciences and Policy (Central European University, 2002). Mykhaylo’s primary research interests are in the fields of environmental and natural resources economics, energy economics, applied microeconomics and applied econometrics.

ISET and ISET-PI Director

Tamara Sulukhia was World Bank’s Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Program Leader for Turkey February 2016-March 2019, based in Ankara, Turkey. In 2010-2015 she served as a Sustainable Development Program Leader for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, based in Kiev, Ukraine. She joined the World Bank in the Regional Office for Caucasus in Tbilisi in 2004 as Senior Infrastructure Specialist. Prior to the Bank, she served as the Minister of Infrastructure and Development of Georgia (2004); as the Head of Local Governance Center of Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) in Tbilisi (2002-2004); was a Fulbright Scholar at the George Washington University in Washington DC (2001-2002) and Development Assistance Specialist in USAID/Caucasus (1997-2001). Her experience includes being a Board Member of several leading Georgian and International NGO’s, and President of Association of Women for Urban Development of Georgia. In 2002-2009 she was teaching Urban Policy and Governance at the Georgian Institute of Public Administration. She is an author of number of publications on urban planning and governance. Tamara holds PhD in urban planning (1997) from Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Chairman of ISET’s International Faculty Committee Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Paul Wachtel is a Professor of Economics and the Academic Director of the B.S. in Business and Political Economy Program, at New York University Stern School of Business. He teaches courses in monetary policy, banking and central banking, and global macroeconomics. Professor Wachtel has been with NYU Stern since 1972. He has served as the chairperson of the Economics Department and as Vice Dean for Program Development at Stern and was also the chairperson of the University Faculty Council. His primary areas of research include monetary policy, central banking, and financial sector reform in economies in transition. He is the author of several books, including Banking In Transition Economies: Developing Market Oriented Banking Sectors in Europe (Edward Elgar, 1998).

His writing has been published in numerous journals, including, most recently, Economic Inquiry , Journal of Banking and Finance, Comparative Economic Studies and Journal of Money Credit and Banking . He is the co-editor of Comparative Economic Studies and the program chair for the Dubrovnik Economic Conferences. He has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior economic advisor to the East West Institute, and a consultant to the Bank of Israel, the IMF and the World Bank. Professor Wachtel received his bachelor of arts from Queens College, his master of arts in economics from the University of Rochester, and his doctor of philosophy from the University of Rochester.