Igor Ostapchuk

Empirical research; econometrics; statistical and financial data analysis; data collection and data management; knowledge sharing (presentations, reports, research papers). Key topics: mergers and acquisitions (M&A), organic growth, post-merger integration, acquisition target selection, resilience, efficiency and productivity analyses, policy impact evaluation, spatial competition, etc.

Stakeholders: World Bank Group; USAID; Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine; Deloitte; Ernst and Young; The British Embassy; The Netherlands Embassy; AgriBenchmark Project, Cash Crop Division (The German Agricultural Society (DLG), Thünen Institute of Farm Economics); German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue (APD).

Responsibilities: analytical department management (5 permanent full-time researchers + temporary staff); periodical and ad-hoc research; public and private consulting; sales; communication with stakeholders; PR; GR (member of Working groups of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine). Key topics: production economics; efficiency and productivity; supply chains; markets of inputs and outputs; regulation of state support, land market and agricultural machinery; foreign trade.

Joint research of Ukrainian Agribusiness Club Association (UCAB) and Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) on efficiency and productivity of Ukrainian agricultural business entities. The results of the research were presented during the International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE) in Milan, Italy.

Responsibilities: data analysis; public and private consulting; PR; GR (member of Working groups on Grain market and Eurointegration of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine). Key topics: crop production economics; markets of inputs and outputs; land market; foreign trade.