Hana Ross

Senior Research Associate

email: hzarub1@yahoo.com
telephone: (+43-1) 5336610

Hana Ross is Senior Research Associate at wiiw and country expert for Eastern Europe and Western Balkans countries. Her research focuses on economic analysis related to taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks. She is also a member of the editorial board of Tobacco Control journal. In her recent research, she analysed the impact of the EU Tobacco Tax Directive on tobacco use and tax revenue and studied the impact of track and trace on illicit cigarette trade in Pakistan. She assembled comprehensive academic and international experience in the USA (University of Illinois at Chicago, RTI, American Cancer Society) and South Africa (University of Cape Town), and graduated in economics (PhD) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a World Bank consultant on the issues related to health taxes.

Austria, Vienna

List of Publications

wiiw Publications

wiiw Publications

wiiw Policy Notes and Reports
  • 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine, Ukrainian Version: Аналіз фіскального та медичного впливу підвищення акцизів на тютюнові вироби в Україні' (with Kristijan Fidanovski, Biljana Jovanovikj and Nóra Kungl), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024
  • 'Analysis of the Fiscal and Health Impact of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ukraine' (with Kristijan Fidanovski, Biljana Jovanovikj and Nóra Kungl), wiiw Policy Note/Policy Report, No. 82, Vienna, August 2024

top