During the General Meeting of the Association on 28 June 2024, Oļegs Tkačevs and Karsten Staehr have been voted in and have become new members of the BEA Board.
Oļegs Tkačevs is a Principal Economist at the Bank of Latvia and a Lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is an Associate Editor of the Baltic Journal of Economics. His main research activities include fiscal and structural policies, competitiveness and trade. He teaches International Economics to undergraduate students. In the past, Oļegs represented the Bank of Latvia in the ESCB Working Group of Public Finance. During the Great Recession, he closely cooperated with counterparts from the IMF and EC on fiscal consolidation strategy and recommendations for structural reforms. In 2012 and 2013, he was an NCB expert at the Directorate General Economics of the European Central Bank. Oļegs holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Latvia.
Karsten Staehr is Professor in public and international finance at Tallinn University of Technology and a part-time Research Supervisor at the Bank of Estonia. He holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Copenhagen. He carries out research and policy analysis within macroeconomics, international finance, European integration, fiscal policy, and tax evasion. He is an associate editor of the Baltic Journal of Economics, and he is on the editorial boards of Post-Communist Economies and Panoeconomicus.