May 2005

Olga Kiuila (kiuila@yahoo.com)

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education:

(1996-2000) Ph.D., Warsaw University, Economics Department
Thesis: Costs of Adapting Poland’s Economy to the Second Sulfur Protocol. A General Equilibrium Model

(1991-1996) M.A., Warsaw University, Economics Department (International Trade Faculty)
Diploma work: European Policy Cost Effectiveness of Acid Rains Reduction: the „RAINS” Model Use

Qualification & Courses:

2002 Summer School in Economic Modeling, EcoMod (Brussels-Belgium)
1998 Summer School on the Mathematics of Economics, ICTP (Trieste-Italy)
1998 Ph.D. course of SAM and CGE models, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
1996/97/98 American Summer School of Economics, Batory Foundation (Olsztyn-Poland)
1995 Course of Environmental Problems and Policy, Education Center of Environemntal Management (Debe-Poland)
1995 International Workshop “Products oriented on the Environmental Policy”, German Institute of Ecology (Poland)
1995 Summer English Course, Nord Anglia International (Oxford-The United Kingdom)
1995 Summer Course of RAINS Model Use, IIASA (Laxenburg-Austria)

Professional and Research experience:

Warsaw University, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor - Intermediate Microeconomics and Cost Benefit Analysis courses
Teaching Assistant - problem sessions for Microeconomics course

Polish Research Institutes
Freelance Consultant - sustainable energy policy, EU energy regulations, ecological tax reform,
international sulfur agreement

Antwerp University, Catholic University of Leuven, Departments of Economics
Visiting Professor - Computable General Equilibrium Modeling

Rice University, Department of Economics
Visiting Lecturer - Basic Macroeconomics course

World Bank (Office in Ukraine)
Consultant – evaluation of health damage project in the East Ukraine

United State Agency for International Development (Office in Poland)
Consultant Assistant – database evaluation for the Environmental Action Program Support project

Warsaw Ecological Economics Center
Researcher – case studies preparing, air pollution projects
Research Assistant – research projects assistance, data collecting

Warsaw, Poland
 (2001-present)
(1996-2000)

Warsaw, Poland
 (2000-present)


Antwerp, Leuven, Belgium
 (2001, 2002)

Houston, USA
 (2001)

Mariupol, Ukraine
 (1997)

Warsaw, Poland
 (1995-1996)

Warsaw, Poland
(1996-1998)
(1994-1996)

Conference presentations:

  1. Tax system as an tool of the sustainable development in Poland, World Bank (Warsaw - Poland)
  1. Expected Effects of the Ecological Tax Reform for the Polish Economy, Center for Austrian Studies ( Minneaplois - USA)
  1. Ecological Tax Reform in Poland , Warsaw University Conference (Nowogrod - Poland)
  1. Energy Optimization Policy Compliant with Sustainable Development in Polish Economy , Business & Economics Society International Conference
    (Paris - France)
  1. Principles of Joint Implementation Mechanism, Business & Economics Society International Conference (Los Angeles - USA)
  1. Economic Repercussions of Environmental Regulations in Poland: the Case of the II Sulfur Protocol, International Conference of Computing in Economics and Finance (Boston - USA)
  1. Economic Effects of Environmental and Energy Policies: CGE Model for Poland, Business & Economics Society International Conference
    (Las Palmas – Spain)
  1. Building a Computable General Equilibrium Model, International Conference of Ph.D. Students (Miskolc – Hungary)
  1. The Experimental Computable General Equilibrium Model, Warsaw University Conference (Kazimierz Dolny - Poland)
  1. How can we decrease the costs of Acid Rains reduction?, Warsaw University Conference (Cedzyna – Poland)
  1. Securing Third Parties Interests in the Second Sulfur Protocol, International Workshop of Environmental Economics (Wageningen - Netherlands)

Recent English Publications:(Most of my publications are on Polish)

Awards and Fellowships:

  1. Association of the Poland-East Collaboration, third award in the Dissertation Award Competition
2001-2005. Warsaw University, Rector Award for the Best Young Researchers 1998-1999. Central and East European Economic Research Center, Doctoral Fellowship