Fellows

• Resource Economics
• Sociology

• Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics (2007 – Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
• MSc in Sociology (2003 – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

• Theories of Cooperation and Learning
• Cooperatives
• Rural Development
• New Institutional Economics
• Environmental and Resource Economics

• Resource economics
• Adaptation to climate change

• "The Role of Leadership in Establishing and Sustaining Cooperation - Evidence from Producer Groups in Poland" in: Knierim, A., Nagel, U.J., Schäfer, C. (eds.), 2007, Managing Economic, Social and Biological Transformations. Proceedings of the First Green Week Scientific Conference, Margraf Publishers, Weikersheim, pp. 180-187 (with Dr. Volker Beckmann)
• "Agricultural Producer Groups in Poland - Empirical Survey Results" in Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, Vol. 8, No. 6, Poznan, 2006

Summary

Ilona is a Post-Doc Researcher based in the Institute for Forecasting at the Slovak Acedemy of Sciences in Bratislava. Ilona defended her Ph.D. in agricultural economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (2007) and holds a MSc in Sociology defended at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (2003).

Ilona works from an interdisciplinary background of transaction costs theory, game theory and collective action theory. Her central research interest is governance of groups, leadership, and the role of cooperation in achieving efficient outcomes by local communities. In her Ph.D. research, I have investigated conditions for successful cooperation between small-scale farmers in agricultural markets. She gathered empirical data on Polish farmer producer groups, a type of farmers' networks. In her research she has examined factors which determine their members' compliance with rules, the groups' use of sanctions against deviators, the role of leadership for achieving and sustaining cooperation, and overall determinants of success or failure of those organizations. In GoverNat she is going to focus on the problems of learning and participation in governance of natural resources.

Ilona is of Polish nationality, has studied also abroad. She speaks Polish, English, German and Russian. In her free time she likes doing sports and walking with her dog in the countryside.