Irina Sinitsina, Ph.D. is a leading researcher at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) and CASE's permanent representative in Russia, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of CASE - Transcaucasus in Tbilisi, Georgia.
In 1975 she graduated from the Moscow State University, Geographical Faculty, Department of Economic Geography of Foreign Countries with M.A. degree She received her Ph.D. at the Institute of Economy of the World Socialist System, USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1986.
Irina Sinitsina specialises in the analysis of social policy, including social security systems, social services, labour market, income and employment policies in Russia, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine and other FSU and Central /Eastern European countries. She has also carried out comparative macroeconomic studies of the economies in transition in these countries.
Irina Sinitsina has participated in many international advisory projects on fiscal and social policy in Georgia and Ukraine. Since 1992, she has advised Russian ministries, governmental agencies, and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on various social and employment policy issues.
She is an author or co-author of over 40 monographs, chapters and articles published in academic magazines on the issues of social policy, social security, income and employment policies in transition economies.
She speaks fluently English, Polish and Russian (native).