Jens Bastian worked at the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) from July 2005 to end-2008. He was responsible for economic research and policy analysis, assisting in program coordination and the management of the Agency’s projects in the field of economic development and institution building in South Eastern Europe. Prior to his engagement with the EAR he was a Senior Investment Analyst for Southeastern Europe at the private sector financial institution Alpha Bank in Athens Greece between 1998 and mid-2005. Before moving to Greece he was DAAD lecturer in the Political Economy of Transition for Central and Eastern Europe at the London School of Economics in London, U.K. He holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Jens is Managing Editor of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Taylor & Francis, London).

e-mail: jbastian@eliamep.gr