[email protected] Contact address: Le Stella, 14 rue Hubert Clerissi – 98000 MONACO Damyana V. Bakardzhieva Born on March 3, 1976 in Sofia, Bulgaria; Bulgarian; Female; Married; Two children Experience 12/2010- The International University of Monaco Monaco CSR Advisor . In charge of designing, managing and coordinating the Sustainability and CSR- related projects of the University; communicating internally and externally on our progress in bi-annual reports to UN PRiME, in the annual INSEEC-U group CSR report and on social media. Member of the INSEEC-U CSR Governance structure. Supervisor of the Student Sustainability Association TwoHelp Associate Professor in Economics and Sustainable Development . Full-time position . Instruction language: English . Courses taught: Undergraduate: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Economics, Corporate Finance, Sustainable Development; Graduate (MBA, MSc in Management, Executive programs): Global Policy and Sustainability, CSR, Research and Report Writing Research supervision: directing undergraduate, graduate and doctoral research on topics related to Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility. 01/2008–07/2010 University of Maryland College Park, MD University Lecturer in Economics . Full-time position . Instruction language: English . Courses taught: Undergraduate: International Economics; Financial Markets; Microeconomics (400+ students per semester) . Supervision: managed the work of seven teaching assistants. 09/2006–07/2010 George Washington University Washington, DC Adjunct Professor in Economics . Part-time position . Instruction language: English . Courses taught: Undergraduate: Introduction to Macroeconomics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Money and Banking; International Economics: Trade; Introduction to International Economics; Graduate: International Economics: Trade and Finance . Research supervision: directed two undergraduate individual research theses. 09/2006–05/2008 American University Washington, DC Adjunct Professor in Economics . Part-time position . Instruction language: English . Courses taught: Undergraduate: Macroeconomics; Graduate: Introduction to Economic Theory The International University of Monaco Monaco 11/2003-02/2006 Professor in Economics and Finance . Full-time position . Instruction language: English . Courses taught: Undergraduate: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Principles of Finance, Business Finance and Financial Markets; Graduate: Macroeconomics. Research supervision: directed undergraduate individual research theses. 09/2002-12/2005 University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis Nice, France Teaching Assistant . Part-time position . Instruction language: French . Courses taught: Economic Policy, Labor Market Policies . Distance e-learning program: Microeconomics for the Universities of Kosice (Slovakia), Irkoutsk (Russia) and Odessa (Ukraine) 09/2000-07/2001 Sofia University Sofia, Bulgaria Teaching Assistant . Part-time position . Instruction language: English and Bulgarian . Courses taught: Macroeconomics 11/1998–11/2002 Bulgarian News Agency Sofia, Bulgaria Journalist, International Economic News Department . Full-time position . Reading the electronic versions of the economic and financial newswire sections of Reuters, The Associated Press and AFP, summarizing the information and translating it into Bulgarian in real time . Customers: the Bulgarian government, the national media and firms . Co-editor in Chief of the “World Economy and Trade” Weekly Digest (a weekly review of the international financial press with more in-depth company and industry analyses, forecasts and studies) Project Awards and Grants 2015 Research Grant for the project on "Monetary Policy in Resource-Dependent Economies," RIAD Project, Economic Research Forum. Page 2 of 11 Damyana Bakardzhieva 2012- Research Grant for the project on "Inclusive Growth and 2013 Job Creation in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia", FEMISE Project 35-12. 2012- Research Grant for the project on " High Growth Potential 2013 Small and Medium Enterprises in South Mediterranean: Identifying Bottleneck Obstacles and Potential Policy Responses " FEMISE Project 35-10. 2011- Research Grant for the project on " The Impact of the 2010 Global Crisis and Arab Spring on Economic Performance and Debt Sustainability in the MENA region: The cases of Egypt and Tunisia", FEMISE Project 34-24 Research Grant for the project on "Monetary Union 2006 among the GCC Countries and the Appropriate Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy Coordination," Global Development Network and Economic Research Forum. 2002 European Union Social Sciences Information Research Facility (EUSSIRF) Grant for a 3-week Research Visit to the London School of Economics and the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London, UK. 2000 3-year PhD Scholarship from the French Government. 1997 Grant for Participation in the American Institute in Political and Economic Studies held at Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic, organized by The Fund for American Studies, Georgetown University, Soros Foundation. Books, chapters, refereed journal articles 2019 “Effects of Pro-Growth Policies on Employment: Evidence of Regional Disparities” Applied Economics, Vol. 51, Issue 40, Pages 4337- 4367. 2016 “Beyond the Optimistic Curse: A New Multiscenario Approach to Debt Sustainability Assessment” Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Vol. 52, Issue 1, January 2016. 2012 “Disaggregated Capital Inflows and Developing Countries' Competitiveness” World Development, Vol. 40, Issue 2, Pages 223-237. Page 3 of 11 Damyana Bakardzhieva 2010 Système bancaire et croissance économique dans les pays en transition Editions universitaires européennes, ISBN: 978- 6131517174, 356 pages. 2010 “The impact of Capital and Foreign Exchange Flows on the Competitiveness of Developing Countries” IMF Working Paper No. 10/154 (Washington DC: International Monetary Fund). 2010 “Economic and Social Impact of the International Financial Crisis on the Mediterranean Partners Countries” Published in Galal et Reiffers (Ed), Crise et voies de sortie de crise dans les pays méditerranéens, Banque Européenne d’Investissement, ISBN 978-92-861-1295-9. 2006 “The Appropriate Monetary Policy Coordination for the GCC Monetary Union” Paper presented at the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Middle East Economic Association (MEEA), ASSA, Boston, Massachusetts, January 6-8, 2006. Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies, VIII, 2006. 2006 “FDI Attractivity and Deep Regional Cooperation: Comparison between Egypt and the CEE countries” Comercio Exterior, Mexico, vol. 56, n°5, pp. 416-427. 2005 “Economic Trilemma and Exchange Rate Management in Egypt” Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 91-114. 2005 “The Potential Impact of the Euro-Med Partnership on Banking Sector Reforms in Egypt - Lessons from CEE Countries” Published in El Ehwany, Naglaa and Jean-Yves Moisseron (eds), 2005, The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Ten Years After Barcelona, ISBN 977-403-058-3, pp. 307- 332. 2004 “Banking Sector Reforms and Economic Growth in Egypt: Lessons From The CEE Countries” Paper presented at the “Eighth Euro-Mediterranean Meeting”, Tunis III University, December 8, 2004, Tunisia. CEMAFI WP # 2004/36. Page 4 of 11 Damyana Bakardzhieva 2004 “Banking Sector Development and Economic Growth in The Czech Republic: A Cointegrated VAR Model” Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on “National and Regional Economics”, Technical University of Kosice, October 6-8, 2004, Herlany, Slovak Republic. CEMAFI WP # 2004/29. Paper published in Conference Proceedings (ISBN 80- 8073-223-X, pp. 287-298). 2004 “Deep Regional Cooperation as a Tool for Attracting FDI: Comparison between CEE and MENA Countries” Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on “National and Regional Economics”, Technical University of Kosice, October 6-8, 2004, Herlany, Slovak Republic. CEMAFI WP # 2004/30. Paper published in Conference Proceedings (ISBN 80- 8073-223-X, pp. 299-310). 2002 “The Reforms Needed to Attract More Foreign Direct Investment in Egypt: Lessons from the CEEC Experience” Background Paper for the 9th Annual Conference of the ERF, 26-28 October, Sharjah, UAE Published as ERF Working Paper #200240. 2001 “Trends of Foreign Direct Investment in the Financial Sector of Selected Transition Countries” Banks, Investments, Money Journal, n°1/2001, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2000 “European Investments in the Banking Sectors of Transition Countries - Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria” Black Sea – Mediterranean Workshop Proceedings, Nice, France. Other research 2017 “Assessing the Causal Relationship between the USD- EUR LIBOR Spread and Oil Prices in Time-Varying Financial Conditions” Paper accepted for presentation at the 1st International Conference on Energy, Finance and the Macroeconomy (ICEFM), Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France, November 22-24, 2017. 2016 “Removing Barriers to MSMEs Growth as Employment- Creating Policy – the Case of Egypt” Paper presented at the 7th International Research Meeting in Business and Management, Nice, France, June 2016. Page 5 of 11 Damyana Bakardzhieva 2015 “From Inclusive Growth to Job Creation in the MENA Countries” Paper presented at the Middle East Economic Association International Conference on “Inclusive growth for transitional MENA countries”, Hammamet, Tunisia. 2014 “The Impact of the Global Crisis and Arab Spring on Debt Sustainability in the MENA region: The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia” Paper presented