Katinka Barysch
Katinka Barysch is the deputy director, and she also runs the CER’s research programmes on Russia and Turkey. She has written extensively about economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe and about all aspects EU enlargement. She also works on European economic reforms, globalisation, the euro, energy question and EU institutional change.
Katinka has acted as an advisor to the EU Select Committee of the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum and other organisation, as well as EU governments and a number of financial institutions and business federations. She regularly comments on European developments in the media, and she was twice nominated for the Rybczynski Prize of economic writing by the Society of Business Economists.
Katinka joined the CER in July 2002. Before that, she was an analyst and editor for the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, specialising in Eastern Europe and Russia. Until 1998, she worked as a consultant in Brussels, where she was also involved in formulating the European Commission's strategy towards the East European candidate countries.
Katinka gained an MSc in International Political Economy with distinction from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science, Economics and Law from Munich University. She speaks German, French and some Russian.
