Alumni Profiles

Jacek Cukrowski is Unit Chief at the Capacity-building Institute and Regional Analysis Unit of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria. Previously he was an Economic Development and Trade Advisor at the Bratislava Regional Centre of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), covering the Central and Eastern Europe and CIS/Central Asian regions. He has also worked as Regional Advisor on Millennium Development Goals for the UNDP, and before that, as an expert for the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Poland. At CASE, he participated in the evaluation of World Bank assistance to transition economies carried out by the Operation Evaluation Department of the World Bank.

As CERGE-EI‘s first graduate in 1995, he has conducted extensive research on problems of economic transition and international trade. He is an author or co-author of articles on problems of economic transition, post-communist economies and International economics. His recent work (with Manfred M. Fischer) on the efficient organization of information processing was published in Managerial and Decision Economics.