Economist, Centre for Human and Ecological Sciences
Email: vadims.sarajevs@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 445 2176
Tel direct: +44 (0)131 445 6920
Fax: +44 (0)131 445 5124
Address:
Forest Research
Northern Research Station
Roslin
Midlothian EH25 9SY
UK
Vadims conducts economic research on the Forest Research portfolio.
He has a PhD on monetary issues in transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe from Queen Mary, University of London. He has worked for the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition in Helsinki on various macroeconomic issues in transition countries; and for the Department of Economics at the University of Stirling on applied economic research, including returns to education, simulating the cost of care for elderly people, and income determinants dynamics in older age.
Vadims joined Forest Research in December 2007.
Current role
Economist, Centre for Human and Ecological Sciences
Planning development and integration of economics research into the Forest Research portfolio.
Current programmes
Forest economics: appraisal, valuation and incentives
Research areas
- International macroeconomics, finance and monetary economics
- Applied time-series and panel data econometrics
- Dynamic optimisation and numeric simulation
- Woodfuel and biofuel in forest management and climate change.
