DEVELOPMENT

Juhan Kivirähk
is Senior Researcher Fellow at the
International Centre for Defence Studies.
He has conducted public opinion
polls and market research for almost
30 years, working in various research
companies (Emor; Turu-uuringute AS;
Faktum Research Centre). During the
last six years, he has concentrated
on sociological research related to
national defence.
Reelika Leetmaa
is the Programme Director of Labour
and Social Policy and Member of the
Executive Board at the Praxis Center
for Policy Studies. Since 2003, she has
advised the European Commission on
topics related to labour market policies,
by participating in the work of the European
Employment Observatory. Her
fields of research include the impact of
labour policy on the functioning of the
labour market; and she is the author of
many applied research studies.
Silja Lassur
is a PhD candidate and project manager
at Tallinn University’s Estonian
Institute of Future Studies. Her fields
of research include innovation and
the international comparison of innovation
policies, as well as the creative
economy.
Katrin Männik (PhD)
is the senior consultant at Technopolis
Group, an international research
and consulting firm. Her main fields
of research are policies for the support
of entrepreneurship in various
countries, their development and the
assessment of their effectiveness.
Triin Lauri
is a PhD candidate at Tallinn University’s
Institute of Political Science and Governance
and lecturer in economic and
social policy. Her research interests are
focused primarily to school selection,
and the related questions of efficiency
and equity in education. Her interest in
the topic of school selection has also
added the following to Triin’s research
interests: the problems of educational
administration; and issues concerning
the modification public policies and the
public sphere more broadly, incl. method-related
challenges in the solution of
complicated public problems.
Martin Mölder
is a PhD candidate in political science
at Central European University. In his
work, he has focused on examining
the political similarities of political
parties in the context of the party systems
and coalition governments of the
European countries. During the last
few years, he and Vello Pettai have
been the co-authors of the Estonian
survey for Freedom House’s Nations
in Transit study.
Marju Lauristin
is Professor of Social Communications
at the University of Tartu, and Candidate
of Philology. Her main fields of
research are social changes in transitional
Estonia, problems related to the
knowledge and information society,
and the Russian minority in Estonia.
From 2008 to 2011, she was the editor-in-chief
of the Estonian Human
Development Report.
Vello Pettai (PhD)
is Professor of Comparative Politics at
the University of Tartu, and Director
of the Institute of Political Science
and Governance. His fields of research
include democratisation and electoral
studies. Since 2009, he, together with
Martin Mölder, has compiled the annual
survey of Estonian politics for Freedom
House’s Nations in Transit study.
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