Shagaida Natalia I.

Phone: +7 (495) 629 2971 
Email: shagaida@iep.ru

Education and academic degrees

•    1980 – graduate of Russian State Agrarian University named after K.A. Timiryazev, profession: economist-mathematician, specialty: economic cybernetics in agriculture.
•    1991 г. – Candidate of science (Economics), thesis “Program and goal-oriented planning in grain products complex of agrarian industrial complex »
•    2007 г. – Doctor of science (Economics), All-Russia Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics named after А.А. Nikonov, thesis “Institutional and economic restrictions in land turnover in Russia’s agriculture.”

Employment record

•    2012 - present – Head of Agrarian Policy research laboratory at RANEPA;
•    2008  - present – Head of Agrarian Policy Department of the Gasidar Institute for Economic Policy;
•    1991-2011 – senior, leading, principal researcher at the All-Russia institute of agrarian problems and informatics named after A.A. Nikonov;
•    1999-2007 – project consultant, project manager, deputy director of the Agrarian reform and rural development Foundation;
•    1980-1991 – junior researcher, researcher of the All-Russia institute of agricultural economics.

Expertise

•    Agrarian reforms on the post-Soviet space;
•    Structural restructuring of agriculture;
•    Formation of agricultural and market in Russia;
•    Agrarian policy.

Awards

•    2003 – certificate of merit from the Governor of the Leningrad oblast for a large contribution in the development and implementation of the sustainable employment mechanism, unemployment reduction and poverty reduction in rural areas;
•    2010 – grant from Fulbright Foundation for research theme “Institutional mechanisms and barriers for introduction of agricultural land for development in the USA” (The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington);
•    2011 – Russian national award “Agrarian elite of Russia” named after Petr Stolipin.

Participation in social and academic boards

•    Member of the expert board of the State Duma committee on agrarian issues;
•    Member of the thesis council of the MSU economic department on specialty 08.00.05 – economics and national economy management;
•    Member of the thesis council of the All-Russia institute of agrarian problems and informatics named after A.A. Nikonov 08.00.05 – economics and national economy management.
•    International projects experience of structural reforms in agriculture
   o    Privatization of land and reorganization of agricultural enterprises in Russia (IFC, DFID 1992-1998, Nizhniy Novgorod and 10 other RF subjects, principal consultant on economic issues);
   o    Ensuring employment and income growth of the rural population and financial rehabilitation of insolvent agrarian enterprises (DFID, 1999-2003, Leningrad and 4 other RF subjects, principal consultant on economic issues);
   o    Zerafshan regional initiative (DFID, 2005-2006, principal consultant on economic issues, Sogdiy oblast, Tajikistan, Samarkand oblast, Uzbekistan);
   o    Debt settlement of cotton growing farms in Tajikistan (2005-2008, DFID, 2005-2006, principal consultant on economic issues, Dushanbe, Tajikistan).

Research and presentations for international organizations

•    Socio-economic monitoring of the land reform in Russia (1993, World Bank);
•    Review of the agricultural policy. Russian Federation (1997, 2012, OECD); Prospects of public-private partnership (PPP) in agrarian education (2010, FAO);
•    The role agro holdings in grain production in RF (2011, FAO);
•    Prospects of the farming sector and rural development in European Neighborhood Policy Countries in view of food security: The case of the Russian Federation (ENP-Russia) (2011).

Principal research areas

•    Results and lessons of agrarian reform in Russia (2012);
•    Evaluation of state support of agriculture (2012);
•    Monitoring of assessment of state support of agriculture on EEU (2012);
•    Assessment of structural changes in industrial sitting in Russia (2011);
•    Assessment of institutional barriers and the level of transaction costs agricultural land collateral in agricultural organizations and farms (2006-2010);
•    Development of mechanisms for agricultural land turnover, institutional analysis of agrarian economics (2000-2005);
•    Mechanisms of financial rehabilitation of insolvent agrarian enterprises (1996-2000);
•    Development and implementation in agrarian organizations of land privatization procedures and reorganization of Soviet agricultural organizations (1991-1995).