Bio
Eduard Bukin is an experienced economist, data scientist, and statistician spending the last decade at the World Bank, UN, and academia. His career has focused on econometrics, economic research, microeconomics, and statistics, with a strong emphasis on empowering non-specialists to extract insights from complex datasets and effectively communicate analyses through interactive web tools, and artificial intelligence.
Key technical expertise lies in use of the modern data science technologies and programming languages such as R, Python, STATA, and GIS tools. He holds a Master’s degree in Rural Development from Ghent University and pursues a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Justus Liebig University Giessen.
His research focuses on land and agricultural economics in transitional countries, such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan as well as on economic modelling of trade and climate policies impacts on welfare in developing countries. His work has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications published in the Land Use Policy Journal, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental and Resource Economics and other academic outlets as well as World Bank reports, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) publications, and internal documents.