Carolyn Ann Kadas

Since 2004 Carolyn Kadas has taught graduate level courses on political economy and economic transition in Eastern Europe, Russia, Eurasia, and emerging countries in the University of Bologna’s Political Science Faculty, specifically for the Master's in East European and Eurasian Studies (MIREES) and the Master's in International Politics and Markets program. Since 2019 she is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies in Bologna, Italy. She also works as a freelance economic and business analyst and editor. She was a journalist and researcher for the Economist Intelligence Unit’s office for Eastern Europe based in Vienna in the 1990s. In 1989-1990 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest Hungary. She received her MA in Russian and East European Studies in 1989 from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, with a concentration in International Economics. Resident in Italy since 1996, she is a native of Oregon, USA, and speaks fluent Italian, German and Hungarian.