WIIW The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche

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Richard Record is the World Bank’s Lead Country Economist for the Western Balkans. Based in Vienna, he coordinates the Bank’s engagement on equitable growth, finance and institutions across Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Richard previously worked across a number of countries in the East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and Africa regions, managing programs on macroeconomics, fiscal policy, trade and private sector development, including assignments based in Kuala Lumpur, Lilongwe, Hanoi and Vientiane. He holds bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in economics respectively from the London School of Economics, the School of Oriental and African Studies and the University of Manchester.

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Natasha Rovo is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice at the World Bank. Based in Washington, DC, her work ranges from support to development policy lending operations to analytical work on macro, fiscal and growth.

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Megha Mukim is a Senior Economist at the World Bank. She is a Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Finance at Wits University, South Africa. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics, and her graduate degrees are from the universities of London and Cambridge. She has over 15 years of experience working on topics including, but not limited to, economic geography, trade, climate, industrial development, and poverty.