Mr. Boris Taganov is a Research Fellow at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) and Ph.D. candidate in economics. He obtained a specialist degree, equivalent to a U.S. master’s degree, in Economics in 2010 from the Moscow Institute of Economics, Management and Law. He continued his studies as a Ph.D. student at the same institution and is currently a Ph.D. candidate, writing a thesis on Investment Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements.

Mr. Taganov joined the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy as a Junior Research Fellow in 2011 and became a Research Fellow in 2012. He joined RANEPA as a Research Fellow in 2012, working in the field of industrial organization and participating in a number of applied research projects for the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Since 2013, Mr. Taganov has been a Research Fellow at RANEPA Laboratory of the International Economics under the guidance of Professor Anne Osborn Krueger, Ph.D. He has published one paper in a Russian peer-reviewed journal on international economics.

While in the U.S., Mr. Taganov plans to conduct empirical research on the consequences of trade integration for income inequality in Russia. He will work with Dr. James Anderson, William B. Neenan S.J. Millennium Professor of Economics at Boston College.