Dr Julia Korosteleva is Professor in Business Economics at UCL SSEES. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Bath, UK. She is engaged in a number of UK-based and European research projects, including EU Horizon2020 ‘GROWINPRO’ project (2019-2022); 'OPUS' project with Kozminski University on new technologies in banking and SMEs lending (2020-2023). She was also a co-investigator in EU Horizon2020SmartEIZ project of the European Commission (2016-19); FP7 project of the European Commission (2012-15) “Growth-Innovation-Competitiveness: Fostering Cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2013 she consulted EU Parliament on a sanctions policy towards Belarus.