Shagaida Natalia I.
- Doctor of Economic Sciences, Head of Agrarian Department, Center for Real Sector
Phone: +7 (495) 629 2971
Email: shagaida@iep.ru
Education and academic degrees
• 1980 – graduate of Russian State Agrarian University named after K.A. Timiryazev, profession: economist-mathematician, specialty: economic cybernetics in agriculture.
• 1991 г. – Candidate of science (Economics), thesis “Program and goal-oriented planning in grain products complex of agrarian industrial complex »
• 2007 г. – Doctor of science (Economics), All-Russia Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics named after А.А. Nikonov, thesis “Institutional and economic restrictions in land turnover in Russia’s agriculture.”
Employment record
• 2012 - present – Head of Agrarian Policy research laboratory at RANEPA;
• 2008 - present – Head of Agrarian Policy Department of the Gasidar Institute for Economic Policy;
• 1991-2011 – senior, leading, principal researcher at the All-Russia institute of agrarian problems and informatics named after A.A. Nikonov;
• 1999-2007 – project consultant, project manager, deputy director of the Agrarian reform and rural development Foundation;
• 1980-1991 – junior researcher, researcher of the All-Russia institute of agricultural economics.
Expertise
• Agrarian reforms on the post-Soviet space;
• Structural restructuring of agriculture;
• Formation of agricultural and market in Russia;
• Agrarian policy.
Awards
• 2003 – certificate of merit from the Governor of the Leningrad oblast for a large contribution in the development and implementation of the sustainable employment mechanism, unemployment reduction and poverty reduction in rural areas;
• 2010 – grant from Fulbright Foundation for research theme “Institutional mechanisms and barriers for introduction of agricultural land for development in the USA” (The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington);
• 2011 – Russian national award “Agrarian elite of Russia” named after Petr Stolipin.
Participation in social and academic boards
• Member of the expert board of the State Duma committee on agrarian issues;
• Member of the thesis council of the MSU economic department on specialty 08.00.05 – economics and national economy management;
• Member of the thesis council of the All-Russia institute of agrarian problems and informatics named after A.A. Nikonov 08.00.05 – economics and national economy management.
• International projects experience of structural reforms in agriculture
o Privatization of land and reorganization of agricultural enterprises in Russia (IFC, DFID 1992-1998, Nizhniy Novgorod and 10 other RF subjects, principal consultant on economic issues);
o Ensuring employment and income growth of the rural population and financial rehabilitation of insolvent agrarian enterprises (DFID, 1999-2003, Leningrad and 4 other RF subjects, principal consultant on economic issues);
o Zerafshan regional initiative (DFID, 2005-2006, principal consultant on economic issues, Sogdiy oblast, Tajikistan, Samarkand oblast, Uzbekistan);
o Debt settlement of cotton growing farms in Tajikistan (2005-2008, DFID, 2005-2006, principal consultant on economic issues, Dushanbe, Tajikistan).
Research and presentations for international organizations
• Socio-economic monitoring of the land reform in Russia (1993, World Bank);
• Review of the agricultural policy. Russian Federation (1997, 2012, OECD); Prospects of public-private partnership (PPP) in agrarian education (2010, FAO);
• The role agro holdings in grain production in RF (2011, FAO);
• Prospects of the farming sector and rural development in European Neighborhood Policy Countries in view of food security: The case of the Russian Federation (ENP-Russia) (2011).
Principal research areas
• Results and lessons of agrarian reform in Russia (2012);
• Evaluation of state support of agriculture (2012);
• Monitoring of assessment of state support of agriculture on EEU (2012);
• Assessment of structural changes in industrial sitting in Russia (2011);
• Assessment of institutional barriers and the level of transaction costs agricultural land collateral in agricultural organizations and farms (2006-2010);
• Development of mechanisms for agricultural land turnover, institutional analysis of agrarian economics (2000-2005);
• Mechanisms of financial rehabilitation of insolvent agrarian enterprises (1996-2000);
• Development and implementation in agrarian organizations of land privatization procedures and reorganization of Soviet agricultural organizations (1991-1995).