Alumni Profiles

Teodora Paligorova currently works as a Senior Analyst at the Financial Markets Department of the Bank of Canada in Ottawa. She obtained her Baccalaureate in 1999 in Finance from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria. She entered CERGE-EI in 2001, and spent a research term at the University of Pennsylvania while working on her dissertation. She defended her thesis, titled "Essays on Managerial Pay Structure" in 2007, and began working at the Bank of Canada shortly thereafter. Her most recent publication is a co-authored paper with Štěpán Jurajda titled "Czech Female Managers and their Wages" in Labour Economics.