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Tiit Tammaru (PhD)<br />

is Professor of Urban and Population<br />

Geography at the University of Tartu.<br />

His main fields of research are population<br />

migration and sub-topics related<br />

thereto: migration and the changes<br />

in the Estonian diaspora in time and<br />

space; urbanisation, suburbanisation<br />

and counter-urbanisation; housing<br />

conditions, changing neighbourhoods<br />

and segregation. He has also examined<br />

the mutual connections between<br />

the spatial location of ethnic groups<br />

and integration.<br />

Urmas Varblane<br />

is an academician, Professor at the<br />

University of Tartu, Head of the Chair<br />

of International Business and Innovation,<br />

and Candidate of Economics.<br />

The main directions of his research<br />

include the following: the internationalisation<br />

of Estonia businesses,<br />

the role of direct foreign investments<br />

in the economy, the state’s innovation<br />

system and innovation policy, productivity<br />

and competitive of the branches<br />

of the economy.<br />

Erik Terk (PhD)<br />

is Director of Tallinn University’s<br />

Institute for Future Studies, and Professor<br />

of Future Studies and Strategic<br />

Management at the same university’s<br />

Institute of Political Science and Governance.<br />

His fields of research include<br />

the compilation of development scenarios<br />

for states and regions, and<br />

developments in Estonia viewed in a<br />

geo-economic context.<br />

Peeter Vihalemm<br />

is a Senior Researcher of Media Studies<br />

at the University of Tartu, Professor<br />

Emeritus, and Candidate of Psychology.<br />

His main fields of research include societal<br />

changes in transitional Estonia,<br />

the media system and media use in<br />

Estonia, and the international social<br />

space in the Baltic Sea Region.<br />

Anu Toots<br />

is Professor of Comparative Public<br />

Policy at Tallinn University’s Institute<br />

of Political Science and Governance.<br />

Her research interests are related to<br />

the contemporary problems of welfare<br />

states, including the concept of the<br />

welfare state as a state comprised<br />

of social investments. Within the<br />

framework of educational policy, she<br />

is involved with the IEA’s international<br />

studies of educational achievement<br />

and coordinated the IEA Civic and<br />

Citizenship Education Study between<br />

1999 and 2009.<br />

Andres Võrk<br />

is Lecturer of Econometrics in the<br />

Department of Economics at the<br />

University of Tartu and Analyst of<br />

Labour and Social Policy at the Praxis<br />

Center for Policy Studies. His fields of<br />

research include the impact of Estonian<br />

labour and social policies on the<br />

labour market and the sustainability of<br />

social security. He is the author of several<br />

applied research studies dealing<br />

with the Estonian labour market and<br />

social policies.<br />

Uku Varblane (MA)<br />

is an analyst in the Centre for Applied<br />

Research at the University of Tartu<br />

and a PhD candidate in the Department<br />

of Economics at the University<br />

of Tartu. His fields of research are<br />

concerned primarily with topics related<br />

to productivity, innovation and direct<br />

foreign investments.<br />

Estonian Human Development Report 2012/2013<br />

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