Kristijan Fidanovski is a researcher at the Vienna Institute for Economic Studies focusing on tobacco taxation in Eastern Europe and the political economies of the Western Balkan countries. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy, where he examined pronatalist policies and politics in (Eastern) Europe as a Barnett Scholar. His other research interests include population aging, EU integration, and electoral systems, with his single- and co-authored work having been published in Nature and Social Policy Administration, among other journals. He has provided consulting services to the European Union, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, and the Parliament of South Korea, among others.
Kristijan has also written for, appeared on, or been quoted in The Economist, European Voices, Eurozine, New Eastern Europe, Balkan Insight, Oxford Political Review, Quillette, Bloomberg Adria, among other media outlets. He holds an MA and BA in East European Studies from Georgetown University and University College London, respectively, and is a former fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna as well as a research assistant to Prof. Timothy Garton Ash. He considers himself an advocate of progressive pronatalism, always searching for the most cost-effective policies to enable people to have the number of children they want – to the benefit of their economies and societies.
