Meet The Team

After studying economics at the Free University of Berlin, he became a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and a research fellow at Potsdam University, where he obtained a PhD degree in economics.

Dr. Giucci serves as a high ranking economic policy advisor in several countries, in particular in Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, Moldova, and Georgia, as well as in the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan. He is the team leader of the German Economic Team, active in Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. He also provides regular consultancy services to private companies in the real and in the financial sector.

After studying economics at the University of Potsdam and at the Warwick Business School, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Potsdam for five years. His research and consulting focuses on macroeconomics and the financial sector, with a particular focus on transition economies. In addition, Mr. Kirchner is involved in numerous other economic policy consulting projects in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

After studying economics at the University of Potsdam, she worked as an accountant and tax consultant for small and medium sized companies.

For more than 25 years, Ms. Gaerke is working in international cooperation, in particular in the fields of agriculture, support to private sector structures and resources protection. Ms. Gaerke implemented various assignments worldwide for project planning, project implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation. For more than 15 years, she is active in leading positions; among others, as Director of the General Agent Contract for the Bilateral Cooperation Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

He was able to gain experience in project management at Bosch Service Solutions and as a project manager in a marketing agency.

She graduated in law from State University of Moldova and holds a Master’s of Law Degree in International Law from Humboldt University in Berlin.

Diana Pascaru brings with her a broad experience in the areas of foreign policy, cooperation with international organizations, bilateral economic relations, promotion of foreign investments and development cooperation.

From 2012 to 2014 Ina Rumiantseva has been working for the German Eastern Business Association (OAOEV) as head of department Belarus, Ukraine and Southern Caucasus.

She accompanied the project “Energy efficient city” in collaboration with the western Ukrainian town of Schowkwa beyond her employment with the OAOEV, among others as coordinator for the initiative “Energy Efficiency Ukraine” (focus housing sector). She has been working with different partners of the initiative, among other with the German Energy Agency (dena) and the Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (IWO).

Prior to joining Berlin Economics, Dmitry Chervyakov worked as a Research Assistant in the Macroeconomics and Forecasting departments at the DIW Berlin and was a Research Intern in the area of Global and European Macroeconomics at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic policy think-tank.

His activities focus on renewable energies, clean tech, energy efficiency, climate and environmental policy and environmental economics.

Dr. Frank Meißner holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Potsdam. Mr. Meißner gained experience in scientific work and policy consulting as a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and at the Society for Innovation Research and Consulting (GIB) in Berlin.

She specializes on trade policy, including WTO-related issues, regional integration, non-tariff measures quantification, and modeling of policy changes, including the CGE modelling. She has participated as a short-term expert in projects financed by the EU, World Bank, UNDP, and USAID among others.

Recently she has been focused on impact analysis of the establishment of the DCFTAs with the EU. Mrs. Movchan holds MA in Economics from the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine).

In the context of the project German Economic Team, she advises Georgian government institutions on economic policy issues.

After studying economics at Rostock University, he worked for several years in consultant and analyst roles in London and Ireland.

At Berlin Economics, Jörg Radeke is involved in a number of economic policy consulting projects. He coordinates our activities in Transnistria. Furthermore, he advises the Ukrainian government on establishing a finance fund for energy efficiency measures, one that supports recipients of social security benefits in particular.

He has previously worked at Thuringian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Science and Digital Society and the economic policy think tank Bruegel in Brussels.

Mr. Saha holds a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, a MA in Political Science from Columbia University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of York. He is an Alumnus of the German National Merit Foundation.

After obtaining a B.Sc. in Economics from Potsdam University, he completed a M.Sc. in Econcomics at Freie Universität Berlin.

During his studies, Clemens Stiewe has worked at the German Bundestag, KPMG and with the consultancy Syspons.

Over the past 20 years, Björn Vogler has lead more than 150 consulting projects concerning industrial policy strategies and programmes, site and cluster development as well as investment promotion. In addition, he has also lead several organizational consulting and capacity development projects for ministries as well as agencies in the field of economic policy and promotion.

His project and leadership experience includes Germany and other EU member countries as well as various developing countries outside the EU. On behalf of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) he has been supporting a wide range of Eastern European and African countries regarding the planning and the implementation of industrial policy programmes. After positions at the GIZ and different consulting companies, including a position as CEO at Regionomica and as project leader at Prognos, Björn Vogler is now the owner of the consulting company Vogler Economic Development Consultants which is located in Berlin.

Woldemar Walter completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in macroeconomics at the Free University of Berlin, and has worked in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Deutsche Bank Research, and the Market Economy Foundation.

Georg Zachmann graduated from the Technical University of Dresden with a doctoral degree on the inefficiency in the European energy market. In addition to his long-time consulting work with the German Advisory Group Ukraine and the German Economic Teams for Belarus, Moldova, and Georgia, Georg Zachmann has worked with the economic think tank Bruegel on energy and climate topics.

She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Bayreuth and a master’s degree in Economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. During her studies she worked as an intern at Deutsche Bank Research and Deutsche Bundesbank, where she gained experience in the field of Finance. She had previously been a student assistant at Berlin Economics since May 2019.

After receiving his bachelor degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he obtained a Masters of International Affairs from both Columbia University in New York and the Hertie School in Berlin in 2020. Throughout grad school, he focused on energy markets, financing sustainable infrastructure in emerging economies and on security politics.

Before joining BE, Lukas has gained work experience at a VC fund in Zurich, the human rights department of the German mission to the UN in Geneva, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, at the science desk of the German weekly “Die ZEIT”, at the Brunswick Group in Berlin and at the Dynamo Energy Hub in New York.

After finishing her BA in Interdisciplinary Russia Studies at the University of Potsdam, she studied East European Studies with focus on Economics at the Free University in Berlin. During her MA studies she was an intern at the German Business Association Georgia and the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) in Tbilisi.

Anne Mdinaradze is alumna of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

After completing his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science at the University of Potsdam, he completed the master’s program in public economics (M.Sc.) at the Free University of Berlin. During his studies, Manuel von Mettenheim worked at the German Embassy in Moscow, the Institute for Eastern European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

After studying Business and Economics at the University of Osnabrück and at the Durham University during his Bachelor program, he completed his M.Sc. in Economics with specialisation in Empirical Economics at the University of Osnabrück.

As a student research assistant, he worked for the Institute of Economic Structures Research. During his studies, he gained experience at the ifo Institute and the Deutsche Bundesbank.

He completed his Bachelor’s degree in economics and political science at the University of Potsdam. He then studied “Economics” (M.Sc.) at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on empirical macroeconomics.

During his studies, Magnus Saß worked, among others, at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and at the Deutsche Bundesbank (BBK). Before joining Berlin Economics, he held a position as research assistant at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). His expertise lies in the field of monetary policy as well as in the areas of financial stability and macro-prudential policy.

He holds a Master of Public Policy with a concentration on policy analysis from the Hertie School in Berlin. He specialised in economic policy and governance in the post-Soviet space during further studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the Belarusian State University. He conducted his BSc studies in Economics and Politics at the Universities of Bonn and Potsdam.

As an analyst, he prepares macroeconomic country analyses and contributes to the writing of policy documents.

As a qualified foreign language correspondant, she worked as an Assistant for an international energy company, where she gained experience in corporate communications and human resources.

Yanina Valasach holds a diploma in International Relations from the Belarusian State University in Minsk and a B.A. in Public Relations from the University of Applied Sciences in Hannover. She gained further professional experience at Talent Garden GmbH and the afs-Academy for training in SEO.

She has many years of experience in the banking and industrial sectors. As a banker she worked for the Hypo Vereinsbank and in the accounting departments of various industrial companies.