Zsoka Koczan is a Lead Economist at the EBRD Office of the Chief Economist. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the EBRD Zsoka worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund in the European Department (on Belarus, Montenegro and a cross-country project on macroeconomic developments in the Western Balkans) and in the Research Department (on the World Economic Outlook). She is currently working on the new round of the Life in Transition Survey. Her current research focuses on within-country income disparities, migration and inequality.