WIIW The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche

Kristijan Fidanovski is Economist at wiiw focusing on tobacco taxation and macroeconomic analysis in the Western Balkans. He is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, where he examines the discursive representation, policy manifestation, political drivers, and fertility effects of pronatalism in Eastern Europe. His other research interests include EU integration, labour market adaptation to population aging, bilateral disputes, and nationalism. He has provided consulting services to the European Union, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica, and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, among others. He holds an MA in International Relations with a focus on Eastern Europe from Georgetown University and University College London, respectively.