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New members of Michael Rochlitz's team

The working group of Michael Rochlitz is pleased to welcome two new PhD candidates, Ekaterina Vorobeva and Michael Richter,  who joined the group within the Innovative Training Network (ITN) "Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (MARKETS)". Both are also affiliated with the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen.

Ekaterina Vorobeva holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from Herzen Pedagogical State University (St. Petersburg, Russia) and a Master’s degree in Baltic Sea Region studies from the University of Turku (Finland). She previously worked in various research projects on forced migration, international migration and migrant entrepreneurship, and her Master's thesis was a qualitative study devoted to activities of black African entrepreneurs in Finland. Her dissertation topic is 'Foreign corporations in the post-socialist region: adapting to, using, or resisting the business environment and legal culture in Russia and Central Asia'.

Michael Richter finished his postgraduate degrees in European interdisciplinary studies at the College of Europe, in economics and politics at the University College London (UCL), and in international relations at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. During his studies, he collected practical experience at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Moscow, the Polish Embassy in Russia, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Germany, and Ecolab in Poland. His main research focus is on informal adaptation mechanisms of companies to asymmetric economic shocks and sanctions, particularly in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Vorobeva Richter