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Rowan Baker

Rowan is currently pursuing a B.A. in international development studies and Russian studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, she served as a research intern for the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia, where she conducted policy research and provided recommendations to integrate gender issues into climate change programs for CAMP4ASB, as well as completed field research at the Aral Sea on fisheries and climate change. Collectively, Rowan has spent over twenty months studying, interning, and researching in Moldova, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. Her research primarily concerns climate change policy and development in Eurasia, and she is fluent in both English and Russian.

Meagan Neal

Meagan holds a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Russian from Middlebury College, where she focused on development economics and the post-Soviet context. Prior to joining CRRC, she spent three years at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, where she summarized and synthesized research results, conducted policy outreach on education issues, supported a RCT in India, and managed a large research fund. Her research interests broadly include education, environmental issues, tourism, gender, and experimental research methods. She speaks English, French, and Russian.

Paramjeet Singh

Paramjeet (Pammi) Singh holds an LL.M. from MIPLC, a union of the George Washington University (US) and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany). He has studied at institutions like University of Oxford (England) and WIPO Academy (Switzerland). In addition to being a qualified lawyer with extensive experience, he is an invited lecturer at Tbilisi State University and University of Georgia where he teaches EU and International business law. He is a PhD student at the Institute for European Studies and regularly writes for Qrius/The Indian Economist. He founded Inkstone (Policy and Legal Advocacy) and has published research in international academic journals. He was recently invited by the New York based Institute of New Economic Thinking to present his...

Athanasios Kipouros

Thanasi is currently an M.A. candidate in European, Russian, and Eurasian Affairs at the University of Toronto. He holds a B.A. in Political Science, also from the University of Toronto, and has previously worked as a research assistant at the Hellenic Institute for European and Foreign Policy. Currently, his work focuses on infrastructure development in the Balkans and the Caucasus. Specifically, he is spending the second year of his Master’s program examining the future outlook and complications of mass transportation and rail infrastructure development in the regions.

Annika Kastetter

Annika holds a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Colorado College. She has worked on grassroots-level development and humanitarian aid projects in India and Jordan, and obtained domestic policy experience with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, where she served as an intern in the Office of International Labor Affairs. After completing her undergraduate degree in May 2017, Annika served as an intern for UNDP Georgia’s Governance Reform Fund project.

David Mzikyan

David Mzikyan holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Business Administration from Tbilisi State University and a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the Eastern Partnership Regional Programme. Prior to joining the CRRC’s Junior Fellowship Program, David was involved in various projects in the private and non-governmental sectors. His research interests relate to political transformation in the South Caucasus following the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Nino Zubashvili

Nino holds an MA from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in Political Science and a BA from Ilia State University in European Studies. She studied at Warsaw University as an exchange student. Before joining the CRRC Junior Fellowship Program, Nino was involved in the projects, Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development (OECD) and the UNDP’s Media Monitoring (2014) project at CRRC. She was also a research intern at the Center for Social Sciences and has done internships at Civil Society Institute and the Parliament of Georgia. Her research interests include issues related to social and political developments in Georgia, civil consciousness and social capital, human rights, human security, and conflict.

Mari Mekhrishvili

Mari Mekhrishvili holds a BA in business administration from Østfold University College, where she spent the final year of her bachelor’s studies after completing three years of study at Tbilisi State University, majoring in Economics. Before joining the CRRC’s Junior Fellowship Program, she worked as an assistant researcher at GeoWel Research, where she was involved in conducting desk research and processing interviews on a range of economic and social issues. Her research interests relate to economic and social development with a focus on minority issues.