Beata Smarzyńska Javorcik

Beata Smarzynska Javorcik is a Polish economist who is currently the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). She is the first woman to hold this position. She is also the first woman to hold a statutory professorship in economics at the University of Oxford. She is a former senior economist of the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank, where she previously served as a Country Economist for Azerbaijan, Europe, and the Central Asia Region and was involved in research activities regarding lending operations and policy advice. She is also a program director of the International Trade and Regional Economics Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. Her research interests are in the fields of international trade, foreign direct investment, investment promotion, and tax evasion.

In 2020, Javorcik was appointed by the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe to serve as a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development, chaired by Mario Monti.

Publications Javorcik's works regarding determinants and consequences of inflow of Foreign Direct Investment have been reprinted and featured in several publications, such as Multinational Enterprise and Host Economies by K. Meyer (2008), Globalization and Productivity by D. Greenaway, H. Gorg and R. Kneller (2008), Financial Times "Investors See Corruption as Barriers" by Alan Beattie (2000).

Affiliations and advisory roles

Editorial Board Member, The World Bank Economic Review The British Academy 2001–2007 Awarded 5 Research Support Grants World Bank 1998 Yale Dissertation Fellowship Yale University 1997–1998 Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Sylff Association 1996 Ford Foundation Grant Ford Foundation 1995 Isaac Sherman Post-Graduate Fellowship 1994 William Morse Hastings Prize for Essay in Economics University of Rochester 1993–1994 Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa