Natalie Lubenets
Natalie Lubenets was a Research Assistant in the ESRI from 2002 until 2003. She subsequently went to the Ministry of Finance in Estonia where she dealt with macro-economic issues while lecturing in Tallinn University of Technology. She is currently an economist in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Her main responsibility today is in the area of coordination of structural reforms and of economic policies. Her research interests include economic geography; economic policy and wage bargaining.