Maria Amelina

Adjunct Lecturer
Senior Social Development Specialist, the World Bank

Office Hours: by appointment

E-mail: Mamelina@worldbank.org

Biography

Dr. Amelina’s research and operational work concentrate on local territorial development, political, administrative, and fiscal decentralization, evaluation of the performance of local governments, project monitoring and evaluation. Operationally, between 2001 – 2008 Maria Amelina has managed and has centrally contributed to the design of World Bank projects in Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Somalia, Turkey, Ukraine. Maria Amelina has served as a Country Social Scientist for Belarus, Romania, and Russia. Analytically, Maria Amelina has co-authored a number of internal reports and poverty assessments for Russia and Romania. Her particular research interests lie in the field of local rural development. She has published on institutional transition in the Russian countryside, rural decentralization, and informal transfers among Romanian households. Currently Dr. Amelina is managing a research and an operational intervention “Local Self-Governance and Civic Engagement in Rural Russia”. Maria Amelina holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, jointly administered by Harvard and Tufts Universities.

Link to Dr. Amelina's current project on development in rural Russia