Nataliya Tipenko

Biography

Education: Graduate Course, and Post Graduate Course at the Moscow State University, Economic Department. Ph. D (Economics), Russian Academy of Science, Institute for Economic Forecasting.

More than 20 years of research activity at Academy of Science, World Bank (local consultant), Nonprofit Organizations (The Institute for Urban Economics and The Center For Fiscal Policy). One year she was the Visitor Researcher at the University of Alaska (US). Now she is the executive director and founder of the Center for Multipurpose Programs .

Was invited as international consultant to World Bank Projects on Basic Education Reforms, Decentralization problems and formula-based per-capita equalization grants in education at Uzbekistan Republic, Tajikistan Republic , Kyrgyz Republic.

The most important projects were carried out in the framework of the following area of studies: Budget and finance reforms in education sector at regional and municipal levels; costs and Financing of Education ; Institutional transition on education.

She was the member of Economic Council of Ministry of Education of RF. Participated in working groups of the Program “Strategy 2020”, budget reforming group.