IEO | People

Advisory Board

Oversees the communications of the IEO with government organisations, NGOs, and business communities around the world.

Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor of Economics
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate (2024)

Eric Maskin

Adams University Professor, Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University,
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate (2007)

Christos Benos

IEO President

Antonio Cabrales

Full Professor (Research Chair in Economics)
at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Laurence Kotlikoff

Professor of Economics at Boston University

Anne Krueger

Johns Hopkins University Professor

Humberto Llavador

Associate Professor of Economics
at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Alexey Makarin

Assistant Professor, Applied Economics
at MIT Sloan

Yingyi Qian

Dean and Professor at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University

Joelson Sampaio

Professor of Finance at Escola de Economia de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas

International Board

Consists of the EB members as well as Team Leaders of a particular year. Makes the most important and strategic decisions regarding the IEO, including (but not limited to) the general guidelines for the IEO tasks composition and selection of the Host Organizations.

Christos Benos

IEO President

Danil Fedorovykh

EB Member, Founding President

Fernando Alberto Alvarez Marin

Ecuador

Bernard Annan

Ghana

Deepak Bhandari

Nepal

Chancy Chen

China

Yiwei Chen

United States of America

Wing Ching Christy Chu

Macau (China)

Christina Cornejo Van Luit

Mexico

Pierre Cotteau de Simencourt

France

Alexandra Dache

EB Member

Mārtiņš Danusēvičs

EB Member

Xenia Efthymiou

Cyprus

Curtis Fountain

Cambodia

Aneta Gacovska - Barandovska

North Macedonia

Cristian Sorin Gheorghe

Romania

Laman Guliyeva

Azerbaijan

Mahaboob Khan Hafeez

Bahrain

Abdulmusavvir Hamidzoda

Tajikistan

Shailashree Haridas

India

David Hodges

United Kingdom

Maggie Huang

Chinese Taipei

Nishe Waqar Jami

Pakistan

Arin Jeon

Republic of Korea

Grey Joyner

Australia

Yuri Khoroshilov

Canada

Chandani Jatin Kinger

United Arab Emirates

Richard Kiniiya

Kenya

Philip Kwan

Hong Kong

Ariel Lemus Portillo

Colombia

George Lomidze

Georgia

Sergio Marí

Spain

Ciela Miguel

Angola

Ruslan Muldashev

Kazakhstan

Thanh Tam Nguyen

Vietnam

Herine Otieno

Rwanda

Mohammad Al-Amin Parvez

Bangladesh

Luchitha Pathirana

Sri Lanka

Fernando Pérez Cervantes

Mexico

Hamidi A Razak

EB Member

Joël Rech

Luxembourg

Lukas Rivelli

Brazil

Jasurbek Rizokulov

Uzbekistan

Jacob Samuel

New Zealand

Arjun Sapkota

Nepal

Thomas Schneiter

EB Member

Adewale Solarin

Nigeria

Bartlomiej Sudzik

Poland

Tatsuro Suzuki

Japan

Seyed Shamim Taheri

Iran

Wenwen Tan

Hong Kong (China)

Korawat Techaphulphol

Thailand

Germano Tietböhl-Martinelli

EB Member

Aleš Toman

Slovenia

Muhammet Halil Toprak

Türkiye

Joseph Tsai

EB Member

Yordan Tsanev

Bulgaria

Crysler Tumale

Morocco

Enkhtuya Tumurbat

Mongolia

Arantza Ugidos Olazabal

EB Member

Ekaterina Vetrova

Russia

Viri Watoka

Papua New Guinea

Myles Willeke

Switzerland

Dwi Wulandari

Indonesia

Loukas Zacheilas

Greece

Jiyan Zhang

Singapore

Alexandr Zhitkovskiy

EB Member

Executive Board

Responsible for the sustainable development of the IEO, long-term coordination of essential IEO processes and overall monitoring.

Christos Benos

Greece

Christina Cornejo Van Luit⁩

Mexico

Alexandra Dache

Romania

Mārtiņš Danusēvičs

Latvia

Danil Fedorovykh

EB Member

Philip Kwan

Hong Kong

Mohammad Al-Amin Parvez

Bangladesh

Hamidi A Razak

Malaysia

Arjun Sapkota

Nepal

Thomas Andreas Schneiter

Switzerland

Germano Tietböhl-Martinelli

Latvia / Italy / Brazil

Joseph Tsai

Taiwan

Arantza Ugidos Olazabal

Spain

Alexandr Zhitkovsky

Russia

Ambassadors

People who promote our Olympiad all over the world.

Yelena Kadeykina

USA

Adewale Solarin

Nigeria

Joseph Tsai

Taiwan

Jury

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Maria Chaderina

Head

California Polytechnic State University, USA

Bekhzod Khoshimov

Member

NYU Abu Dhabi, USA/UAE

Humberto Llavador

Member

Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics, Spain

Mihalis (Michel) Zouboulakis

Member

University of Thessaly, Greece

Christos Benos

Member

University of Thessaly, Greece

Danil Fedorovykh

Member

HSE University, Russia
President of the IEO Executive Board

Pavel Krivenko

Member

Baruch College, CUNY, USA

Eileen Tipoe

Member

Queen Mary University of London, UK

Lee Wai Shun

Member

Hong Kong Association for Economics Education, Hong Kong, China

Law Tsz Yeung

Member

Hong Kong Association for Economics Education, Hong Kong, China

Azamat Valei

Member

University of Nottingham, UK