Short Bio
I am Research Associate in the Center for Global Trade Analysis, the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. My areas of expertise are in energy and environmental economics, industrial organization, and real estate and urban economics with a particular focus on households’ and firms’ investment problems. I am currently working on a large NSF funded research project on the optimal allocation of global land use in the presence of uncertainty and irreversibility in collaboration with the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Chicago. I have extensive experience in academia, public sector and international institutions. Before joining Purdue University, I worked as a research economist at the Electricity Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge; the Enterprise Analysis Unit at the World Bank, and Credit Research Center at Georgetown University. I also spent a number of years with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, working primarily on Latvian economic integration in the EU and WTO. I taught a number of graduate and undergraduate courses in economics at the University of Cambridge, Miami University, the George Washington University, and the University of Latvia. My research is published in peer-reviewed academic journals and is regularly presented at international conferences and workshops.