International Advisory Board

Comprised of prominent scholars from around the globe, the KSE International Advisory Board for oversees the academic quality of the KSE Master’s Program.

Members of the Board include:

• Professor Paul Gregory, Chair; University of Houston, USA
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• Paul Gregory is Cullen Distinguished Chair of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, and a Hoover Institution research fellow at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author or coauthor of 12 books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography. His articles have been published in the American Economic review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economics and Statistics. 

• Professor Charles Becker, Duke University, USA

Charles M. Becker currently serves as Associate Chair of Duke University's Economics Department and concurrently directs the MA program in Economics. He joined Duke in 2003, and held previous positions at the University of Colorado at Denver (1999-2003), the University of Colorado at Boulder (1987-2003), the Economics Institute (1987-1998), and Vanderbilt University (1982-1986). He received his Ph.D from Princeton University. In addition to his positions held in academia, he has been a consultant for the World Bank, a senior economist at the consultancies Pragma and IMCC, and a senior advisor within the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Team Leader of an Asian Development Bank pension reform technical assistance project to the Kyrgyz Republic.  

• Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia University, Columbia Business School, USA

Professor Calomiris is  Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions (beginning March 2003; previously Paul M. Montrone Professor, 1996-March 2003), Division of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, 1996-present.  He received his Ph.D from Stanford University.

Professor Calomiris is one of the world’s leading authorities on financial institutions. His research spans the areas of banking, corporate finance, financial history and monetary economics. He has advised numerous firms, agencies and governments on the performance and regulation of financial institutions. Calomiris is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and directs the American Enterprise Institute’s project on financial regulation. He teaches international banking and a case course on business and finance in emerging market economies.

Calomiris has published papers in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Business, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Annals of Finance, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Financial Services Research,. Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Explorations in Economic History, 1993-2003. 

• Professor Irwin Collier, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Irwin Collier holds the Chair of Public Finance and Social Policy, Free University of Berlin. He is also a Research Fellow of Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, and a Member of the History of Economic Theory Commission of the Verein fur Sozialpolitik. Before coming to the Freie Universitat Berlin in 1994, he taught at the University of Houston (USA), at CERGE in Prague and Seoul National University in Korea. Irwin Collier's articles have been published in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Journal of Comparative Economics. His research interests include the economic theory behind economic index numbers, the economic reconstruction of post-wall Eastern Germany, and the political economy of social welfare reform. He received his Ph.D from MIT.  

• Professor George Daly, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, USA

George Daly is professor and dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a position he assumed in November 2005. Prior to his Georgetown appointment, Daly served as the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Business Administration at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. From 1993 to 2002, he was the Dean of the Stern School at NYU. During his Deanship, the Stern School rose in national prominence, achieving top 10 ranking for all of its undergraduate and graduate degree programs for the first time. Before going to NYU, Daly served as Dean and Professor at the College of Business Administration at the University of Iowa. He also has held senior posts in the White House, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and as a consultant to the National Football League. He serves on several corporate boards and as an advisor to a number of minority start ups. Dean Daly received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.  

• Professor John Earle, George Mason University, USA

John S. Earle joined the School of Public Policy at the George Mason University in August 2010. Previously, he has taught at the Central European University (1991-2010), Stanford University (1990-2000), the Stockholm School of Economics (1997-2001), and the University of Vienna (1991); and he has been an affiliated researcher with the Institute for International Studies at Stanford (1995-97), the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (1997-2001), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, since 1999), the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2007), the Center for Advanced Studies in Vienna (1991-92) and the Brookings Institution (1987). He received his Ph.D. from Stanford.

Earle’s research focuses on the firm-level and worker-level effects of public policies, labor markets, political economy, firm performance, privatization and corporate governance, entrepreneurship, industry dynamics, organizational practices, and the consequences of restructuring for employees. His publications include more than 50 articles in refereed scholarly journals, four books and numerous chapters in edited volumes.

Earle’s policy experience includes stints at the Council of Economic Advisers, the Congressional Budget Office, and the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., and policy advising and consulting with the World Bank, OECD, USAID, and the Russian-European Center for Economic Policy. He is also Director of the Labor Project at the Central European University and president-elect of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies.

• Professor Franz Palm, University of Maastricht, Netherlands

Franz Palm was appointed Academy Professor in Econometrics by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Since 1985 he has been a professor of econometrics at Maastricht University. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, 1986-1989, 1998-2001, and 2004-2006.  Prior to that he was a professor of econometrics at the Free University, Amsterdam, 1980-1985. Prior to that, Palm was a research associate at CORE, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.  Palm has been a visiting professor at the University of Louvain and at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University and at Université de Montréal. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the European Economic Association and of CESifo,  and a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. Palm is founding co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, a member of the editorial board of De Economist, an associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics and a former associate editor of the Journal of Economic and Business Statistics and the European Economic Review. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg (Switzerland).  

• Professor Joseph Pelzman, George Washington University, USA

Joseph Pelzman is Professor of Economics, International Affairs and Law. He came to The George Washington University in September 1980, after completing a year as a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow, where he co-authored the Report on US Competitiveness for the White House. He previously served as Assistant Professor of economics at the University of South Carolina. Professor Pelzman has held appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel); Visiting Professor of Law and Economics at Catholic University Law School, Visiting Professor of Law at the Radzyner School of Law, Research Associate, The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Pelzman has published articles in a number of leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, European Economic Review, and Southern Economic Journal. His primary professional interests are in the areas of international trade, international trade law and law and economics. His current work centers on terror and its economic impact:: an econometric approach measuring volatility, delinking tariff liberalization and domestic tax reforms; deconstructing economic development in the Middle East - the Israel's experience as the standard; post-MFA textile & apparel competition; and the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding: enforcement and revision issues.  

• Professor John Taylor, Stanford University, USA

John Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution; He taught at Columbia University from 1973–1980 and the Woodrow Wilson School and Economics Department of Princeton University from 1980–1984 before returning to Stanford. He has received several teaching prizes and teaches Stanford's introductory economics course as well as Ph.D. courses in monetary economics.

An expert on monetary policy, in a 1993 paper he proposed the “Taylor rule,” which provides a guide to central banks on how to determine interest rates. He has been active in public policy, serving as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the first term of the George W. Bush Administration. His book Global Financial Warriors chronicles this period. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the George H. W. Bush administration and Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Ford Administration. Professor Taylor is a frequent commentator on the U.S. and world economy in the major media.  

• Professor Mark P. Taylor, Global Market Strategies Group, UK

Professor Mark P Taylor is Dean of Warwick Business School. He has held a professorship in international finance at Warwick since 1999. From 2006 he worked as a Managing Director at BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, where he led the European arm of the Global Market Strategies Group, a large global macro investment fund. Professor Taylor's research on exchange rates and international financial markets has been published extensively in many of the leading academic and practitioner journals, and he is one of the most highly cited researchers in finance and economics in the world. He is generally one of the top 1% of authors worldwide in the Repec rankings, updated monthly.  

• Professor Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School, Russia

Konstantin Sonin is SUEK Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow. In 2002 and 2003, Sonin was awarded the Best Economist award by the President of the Russian Academy of Science. In 2004, he received the Gold Medal of the Global Development Network for his paper on the sources of political demand for bad institutions. His academic papers appeared in leading academic journals such as Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.  

• Professor Jürgen Wolters, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany 

Professor Juergen Wolters is Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin. Prior to that he served as Professor of Applied Econometrics at Mannheim University. Wolters is among the top ten published German economists and is noted for his classic studies of time series econometrics and business cycles. He has been a frequent advisor to the German Bundesbank. He served as chair of economics at the Free University of Berlin several times. He has published papers on German and international business cycles and monetary policy as well as theoretical work on time series econometrics. His papers appear in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Statistical Papers, and  Economic Letters. His book Introduction to Modern Time Series Analysis was published by Springer in 2007. Wolters is a member of the Verein fuer Sozialpolitik, the Econometric Society, and the International Statistics Institute. 

• Professor Robert Baldwin, University of Wisconsin, USA (Board Members Emeritus)

Robert E. Baldwin is Hilldale Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught at Harvard and the University of California at Los Angeles before moving to Wisconsin in 1964. He served as Chairperson of the Economics Department at UW-Madison from 1975-78 and chairperson of the Social Systems Research Institute from 1986-89. Baldwin has published over a hundred theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented articles in various professional journals and conference volumes in the fields of international trade and economic development.

Baldwin was Chief Economist in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington in 1963-64 and has served as a consultant on trade matters in the U.S. Department of Labor, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the World Bank, and OECD. He served as chair of the Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics for the National Academy of Science's Committee on National Trade Statistics, and was President of the Midwest Economics Association in 1995.