Staff Profile:
- Name:
- Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova
- Job Title:
- Professor
- Responsibilities:
- School Director of Teaching and Learning; Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; Director, Centre for Euro-Asian Studies; Member of the IFP Advisory Board.
- Areas of Interest:
- Transition and emerging economies
- Hydrocarbon development, particularly development of resource funds
- Energy economics (particularly oil and gas)
- Corporate governance in resource-rich emerging economies
Profile:
After working as an Economic Adviser to the President of Kazakhstan, Yelena founded and is Director of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Reading. She has a wide knowledge of the transition and emerging economies. is an economic adviser on Caspian issues to the Rt. Hon. Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Q.C., House of Lords and an economic adviser to All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kazakhstan (2006-2010). Yelena is currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
- Qualifications:
- MSc, MA, PhD Almaty
Affiliations:
- Association for Comparative Economic Studies
- British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies
- European Association for Comparative Economic Studies
Consultancy:
- Director for the 2006-2008 FCO Chevening Fellowship Programme "The Economics of Energy". (New Scheme launched by the FCO in order to bring future leaders, decision-makers and opinion-formers to the UK at a formative stage in their careers).
- Consultancy (Economic adviser on Caspian Issues) to Rt. Hon. Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Q.C., (co-chairman of Kazakh-British Society and Chairman of British-Azerbaijani Society)
- Consultancy for Burren Energy (the Energy company) in Turkmenistan. November 2004.
- Extensive comments throughout the preparation of 2004 edition Transition Report, EBRD. July-September, 2004.
- Mini Short Course "Incentive Schemes for Managers" for the Serbian business club "Privrednik", Belgrade, June 8, 2002.
- The commencing Kazakhstan Briefing Service which is offered jointly by the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies and the Centre for Global Energy Studies. Kazakhstan Briefing Service offers a unique insight into business, economic and legal developments in Kazakhstan as they happen. March, 2002.
- Executive Training Programme for 24 Kazakhstani University Chancellors, November, 2001.
- Foreign Investment Advisory Service consultant and country expert, World Bank -FIAS project "Kazakhstan: Cumulative Cost Delay Study" (2001)
- Consultation "The Business Environment in Kazakhstan" to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Central Asia and South Caucasus Section, Eastern Department, UK, 2001.
- Head of the GDN Country Study – Kazakhstan, World Bank (2001)
- Co-ordinator for the project with Plekhanov Academy of Economics, Moscow, Russia -World Bank (2000-2001)
- Regular Contributor to Oxford Analytica Daily Brief (1999-2000) topics included Kazakhstan, CIS and Central Asia Economies
- UK co-ordinator for REAP project-Ukraine - The British Council, UK (1999-2001)
- Consultant for Maxwell and Stamp, "Training Kazakh Governmental Officials".
- Consultant for Know How Fund Department for International Development (1999) "KHF Russia: Russia Trade with the EU"
- Consultant to Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd (1998) "Sakhalin 2 Project"
- Consultant to the diplomatic corps in London (including Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia)
