The EAEPE Mentoring Programme

In 2024 EAEPE has launched a new initiative to support its young scholars: the EAEPE Mentoring Programme. The idea is to match Masters and PhD students as well as other early career researchers (mentees) with more experienced scholars (mentors) to get advice, pitch ideas and learn from each other. For more information see here. Below you find an overview of our current mentors.

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Prof. Jesus Ferreiro

Current Position:

  • Professor in Economics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain

Areas of interest and expertise:
  • Labour economics
  • Macroeconomic Policy
  • Post-Keynesian economics
  • Financialisation
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • Bilbao (Spain),
  • EAEPE Conference
CV Highlights
  • More than one hundred articles in books and peer refereed journals in the areas of my expertise (see ORCID)
  • I have supervised 3 Doctoral Thesis and a high number of Master Thesis
  • Currently, I am the Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Economic Integration at the University of the Basque Country
  • I have participated as Principal Investigator and as Investigator in a high number of national and international research groups and research projects.
  • Since 2019, I am a Trustee at the Association for Social Economics and Coordinator of the Research Area “Labour Economics” of EAEPE
What future mentees can expect from me
  • Advice and guidance on issues such as the conduct of research leading to a doctoral thesis,
  • Reading and reviews of drafts of papers
  • Advice on choosing conferences and publications outlets
  • Advice on participation in international networks
  • Discussion of strategies for the internationalisation of research
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • I am 60 years old. I am married and have two children and a dog (a labrador retriever).
  • My main hobbies are spending time with my family and travelling.
  • I am also a supporter of the Athletic Club de Bilbao
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Prof. José Luis da Costa Oreiro

Current Position:

  • Associate Professor at Economics Department, University of Brasília, Brazil
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • Post Keynesian Economics
  • Developmental Macroeconomics
  • Economic Growth
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • Brasília (Brazil)
CV Highlights
  • Level I Researcher of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil)
  • More than 150 research papers published in several journals as the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Investigacion Economica, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Metroeconomica.
  • Co-autor of the book Developmental Macroeconomics: new developmentalism as a growth strategy (Routledge, 2015).
What future mentees can expect from me
  • I am the coordinator of a research group – Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Research Group – that had more than 40 researchers in several countries like Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, United States and Italy. This network can be very useful for a young student at the beginning of his/her career as a researcher or university professor.
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • I love to read books about European history and biographies of great political leaders.
  • I also enjoy classical music (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) and walking for at least 60 minutes 3 to 4 times a week.
  • I love wine at dinner and sometimes to smoke a Cuban cigar
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Prof. Wolfram Elsner

Current Position:

  • Full Professor (ret.), University of Bremen, Germany; Guest Professor, Jilin Uni, Changchun, PR China
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • Evolutionary Economics
  • Institutional Economics
  • Complexity Economics
  • Industrial Networks and Industrial Policy
  • Regional Clusters and Development
  • Regional Policy
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • Northern Germany (Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover)
  • NL, UK (London)
CV Highlights
  • Worked 10 years outside academia in regional industrial development at city and state levels, directed a governmental (non-university) economics research institute
  • EAEPE President 2012-2014, 2014-2016
  • Managing Editor, Forum for Social Economics, 2012-2018
  • Editor-in-Chief, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, 2018-2023
  • Co-editor International Handbook of Complexity Economics (Routledge, 2025)
  • Co-editor Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics (Elgar, forthcoming 2026)
  • Textbook Microeconomics of Complex Economies. Evolutionary, Institutional, Neoclassical, and Complexity Perspectives, Elsevier/Academic Pr., 2015, 2nd ed. forthcoming 2026;
  • EAEPE Myrdal Award 2017
  • ASE service award 2022
  • Best paper award JEI 2024
  • Veblen-Commons Award 2025
What future mentees can expect from me
  • Background of generations of assistants who are professors now
  • Background of 60+ PhD promotions in Germany and abroad
  • International networking
About me (hobbies, other interests)

  • Strong interdisciplinary interests (naturalistic approach, biological and physical analogies, socio-economic history, anthropology)

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Prof. Jean-Christophe Graz

Current Position:

  • Full professor of international relations, Institut d’études politiques, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Areas of interest and expertise:
  • International political economy
  • Globalization
  • Regulation and governance
  • Global production networks
  • Transnational private governance
  • International standards
  • Service offshoring
  • Labour and sustainability standards
  • Risk, uncertainty and insurance
  • Platform capitalism and digital labour
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • EAEPE Conference
CV Highlights
  • Ph.D. with very little supervision and completed under unemployment benefits, even termination of such benefits at the end.
  • Some highly precarious contract jobs and postdoc mobility grants for my own research over a number of years, before a very attractive grant as a research professor, but on a fixed-term basis.
  • Hired as professor over 40 years old.
  • Academic management experience as Head of Department and Vice-Dean for research, ethics and doctoral schools.
What future mentees can expect from me
  • A supporting, yet not too heavy-handed behaviour, helping if/when necessary to find and use tasks-specific resources.
  • An empathetic listening helping to identify what drives a passion for a research and professional project, rather than strategic behavioural coaching.
  • My experience as vice-dean for research, ethics and doctoral school, and chairing defence committees.
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • Skiing, road cycling, mountain hiking.
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Prof. Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch

Current Position:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Pluralist Economics, Europa-University Flensburg, Germany
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • The philosophy of pluralism in economics (challenges, merits, epistemology, relation to post-colonialism)
  • The empirical state of plurality in economics
  • Challenges for socio-ecological transformations
  • Competition in Academia and the reproduction of biases
  • Technological change and economic complexity
  • Evolutionary-institutional thought
  • The global dimension of green growth and degrowth
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • The area around Flensburg
  • EAEPE Annual Conference
CV Highlights
  • Clarence Ayres Award (AfEE, 2025)
  • William Kapp Award (EAEPE, 2020)
  • Herbert Simon Award (EAEPE, 2018)
  • Young Scholar Award for Pluralistic Economic Research (Witten Institute for Institutional Change, 2016)
  • Segnitz Award for the best dissertation in economics and business studies (Segnitz Foundation, 2016)
What future mentees can expect from me
  • I am committed to giving honest feedback on how I have experienced Academia to work, and I promise to do my best to understand your personal situation and give suggestions accordingly
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • Reading, running, craftwork, programming, and childcare;)
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Prof. Torsten Heinrich

Current Position:

  • Professor for Microeconomics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • Agent-based modeling; computational economics
  • Innovation economics; evolutionary economics
  • Industrial organization
  • Game theory
  • Complexity economics
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • Chemnitz (Germany) and places close by (Leipzig, Dresden, …)
  • EAEPE conference
CV Highlights
  • Since 2020: Professor for Microeconomics, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • Since 2019: Associate, INET, University of Oxford
  • 2019-2020: Postdoc, OMS, University of Oxford
  • 2016-2019: Postdoc, INET, University of Oxforx
  • 2011-2016: Postdoc, University of Bremen
  • 2008-2011: PhD student, University of Bremen
  • 2001-2007: Studies of economics, Dresden University of Technology (and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
What future mentees can expect from me
  • We can meet if convenient, talk about economics, specific research problems and findings, typical problems in academic careers (and in particular for early career researchers) and with research in general and possible solutions for those.
  • But please also note that my time is occasionally quite limited (especially during term time in Germany), and during those times, I’m not always the most reliable communicator.
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • Computers are my friends, alarm clocks are my enemies, and improving our understanding of economics to turn the world into a better place is my passion. Yes, I realize, that this is not going very well – with the climate crisis, neo-mercantilism, democratic backsliding, erosion of civil liberties, as well as deteriorating infrastructure and re-emerging financial fragility. But we can turn that around, right?
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Prof. Riccardo Pariboni

Current Position:

  • Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, Italy
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • Post-Keynesian economics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Growth Theory
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • Rome
  • Siena
  • EAEPE Annual Conference
CV Highlights
  • PhD at the University of Siena
  • Post-Doc at Roma Tre University and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  • EAEPE’s Research Area R [Classical Theory and Policy Analysis] co-coordinator
What future mentees can expect from me
  • Advice about research, PhD theses, career perspectives and choices
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • Interested in politics, literature, sport
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Prof. Paolo Ramazzotti

Current Position:

  • Professor of Economic Policy and Institutional Economics at the University of Macerata, Italy
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • Social economics
  • Racism
  • Neoliberalism and its hegemony
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • EAEPE, ASSA and Storep conferences
  • Trento (Italy)
  • Macerata (Italy)
CV Highlights
  • Managing editor of the Forum for Social Economics
  • Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Issues
  • Associate editor of the Review of Evolutionary Economics
What future mentees can expect from me
  • Emphasis on real-world relevance and on theoretical rigour
  • Clear distinction between theory and models
  • Lack of interest in the technicalities of quantitative models
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • An interesting combination of mountaineering and laziness
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Prof. Esin Yoruk

Current Position:

  • Associate Professor, Research Centre of Business in Society, Coventry University, UK
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on technology management, sustainability, inclusivity and equality both in the emerging and advanced country contexts.
  • Expert in advanced quantitative methods as a professional user of STATA, SPSS, Smart-PLS and QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis)
  • Experience in survey design and collection of primary data.
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • Oxford, UK
CV Highlights

 

What future mentees can expect from me
  • To design research and theoretical approaches on a paper in my research areas
  • To bring a work-in-progress paper to publishable standards in my research areas
About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • Cold water swimming, singing, cycling
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Dr. Luwei Zhao

Current Position:

  • Lecturer, Faculty Management & Economics, Kunming University of Science & Technology, China
Areas of interest and expertise:
  • History of Heterodox Economics Thought
  • Modern Chinese Economic Thought
  • Evolutionary and Institutional Economics
  • Original Institutional Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Financialization
  • Monopoly Capitalism
  • Inclusive Development and Social Reproduction
Potential locations for in-person meetings
  • China, EAEPE Annual Meetings
CV Highlights
  • Monograph of Theory of Monopoly Capital (China Social Sciences Press, 2023)
  • Co-Author of Yunnan’s Promotion of New-type Industrialization (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2025)
  • Experience outside academia, Industrial Investment Fund Manager with AUM of 5 billion RMB.

 

What future mentees can expect from me

I am serving as the coordinator for the regular webinar of the OIE International Network. We are delighted to have you with us, and look forward to exploring ideas and growing OIE together!

I would be happy to communicate with you either online or in person, so that we can discuss specific research topics, issues that early-career scholars face in their academic journey, your own research, and ways we can improve together.

About me (hobbies, other interests)
  • Enjoy reading history
  • Interdisciplinary research (evolutionary biology, sociology, anthropology, and political science).
  • Focused on cultural anthropology recently.

Are you interested?

We will launch the new mentoring cycle at the 2025 conference in Athens. Feel free to join our Meet & Greet at the conference venue (check out the conference programme for details). If you have any questions about the EAEPE Mentoring Programme, or if you would be willing to become a mentor yourself, please contact us via [email protected].