This document provides a summary of Maksym Chepeliev's personal and professional experience. It includes his contact information, education history, work experience, research projects, publications, and presentations. He has a Ph.D. from the Institute for Economics and Forecasting in Ukraine and currently works as a Research Economist at Purdue University focusing on global trade and energy modeling.

1. CHEPELIEV MAKSYM
mchepeli@purdue.edu
chepelev@gmail.com
Address 403 West State Street Personal Data
KRAN #562, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA Date of birth: 29 November 1989
Phone: +1-765-494-4318
+1 765-775-81-20 (mobile)
11.2012 – 04.2016 Institute for Economics and Forecasting, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kyiv
Ph.D. programme in economic and mathematical modelling. Dissertation title: “Modelling and economic
effects assessment of domestic energy consumers’ subsidization”.
09.2010 – 02.2012 National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
Faculty of Management and Marketing, Economic Modelling Department. M.Sc. in Economics. Diploma
with honours.
09.2006 – 06.2010 National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
Faculty of Management and Marketing, Economic Modelling Department. B.Sc. in Economics. Diploma
with honours.
08.2016 – to date Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics: Research Economist
Specialization: world trade and energy modeling, development of the global general equilibrium models,
in particular Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model, development of the GTAP database; energy
subsidies, climate change policies, macroeconomic model’s calibration and parameter estimation, model
validation.
06.2015 – 07.2016 Institute for Economics and Forecasting, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kyiv
Department of Energy Sector Development and Forecasting: Research Officer.
Specialization: macroeconomic and energy modelling, with particular regard to: economy wide
computable general equilibrium (CGE) and input-output analysis of energy policy measures, assessment
of low emission development scenarios, energy tariff reform analysis, energy efficiency and renewable
energy modelling; Ukrainian international energy obligations implementation issues.
04.2012 – 05.2015 Institute for Economics and Forecasting, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kyiv
Department of Energy Sector Development and Forecasting: Associated Research Officer.
RESEARCH PROJECTS OF UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
04.2015 – 12.2019 Modelling and assessment of sustainable land, water and energy resources use in
Ukraine in the context of global environmental change. Executive researcher.
Research activities: analysis of the long-term climate change challenges for water and energy use in
Ukraine; representation of the land resources in Ukrainian CGE model; soft linkage of Ukrainian CGE
model and energy system TIMES-Ukraine model; assessment of the climate change impacts on the water-
energy-food nexus in Ukraine; development of the climate change adaptation policies.
01.2014 – 12.2016 Integration factors of Ukraine’s institutional environment and energy markets
structure transformation. Researcher.
Education
Work experience
Selected projects
experience

2. Research activities: economic impact assessment of the national energy markets structure and
institutional environment transformation under the influence of international energy commitments;
modelling activities included update and further disaggregation of the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for
Ukrainian CGE model, econometric estimation of the capital-labor substitution elasticities, CGE-based
assessment of the energy tariff policy change, energy efficiency and renewable energy policy measures,
implementation of the carbon taxes in Ukraine.
05.2015 – 12.2015 Government and market mechanisms of Ukrainian energy balance optimization.
Researcher.
Research activities: CGE-based assessment of social and economic effects of the Ukrainian international
energy obligations implementation; economic assessment of the nuclear power industry using input-
output models.
05.2014 – 12.2014 Socio-economic and environmental dimensions of Ukrainian energy balance
optimization. Researcher.
Research activities: investigation of the economic and social impacts of the long-term energy balance
optimization policies using soft-linkage of TIMES-Ukraine and Ukrainian CGE models.
03.2014 – 12.2014 Investigation of Ukraine’s long-range sustainable development options using
economic and mathematical modelling tools. Researcher.
Research activities: economic impact assessment of the sustainable energy development scenarios in
Ukraine (two sets of scenarios including environment conservancy and low emission development were
studied using dynamic CGE model).
04.2013 – 12.2013 Socio-economic and environmental challenges of Ukrainian United Energy System
safety. Researcher.
Research activities: analysis of the socio-economic and political determinants of the national electricity
markets development.
04.2013 – 12.2013 Technological improvements and energy security in Ukrainian energy balance
optimization strategy. Researcher.
Research activities: review of the methodological approaches to the assessment of the macroeconomic
effects of energy policies implementation, including top-down – bottom-up soft and hard-linking
modelling approaches.
03.2013 – 12.2013 Pilot modelling tools construction to support decision-making for sustainable
development of Ukraine. Researcher.
Research activities: economic impact assessment of the domestic energy subsidies reform in Ukraine (a
static CGE model was applied).
01.2011 – 12.2013 Energy markets regulation in the context of Ukraine’s international obligations.
Researcher.
Research activities: development of the static CGE model for Ukraine, including construction of the input
database; analysis of the pricing mechanisms on European and Ukrainian energy markets; economic
assessment of the energy tariff reform in Ukraine.
05.2012 – 12.2012 Implementation of the strategic planning process in energy sector into the system
of the state regulation of socio-economic development. Researcher.
Research activities: extension/disaggregation of the energy sector in Ukrainian CGE model through the
implementation of the nested constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production functions; economic
assessment of the natural gas import price changes.
OTHER PROJECTS
02.2016 – 05.2016 Razumkov Centre/Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Ukraine and Combating Climate Change Policy: Economic Issue. Researcher.
Research activities: investigation of the structural and technological issues of Ukrainian low emission
development policy; quantitative assessment of the long-term structural and technological shifts in
Ukrainian economy using dynamic CGE model.
04.2014 – 02.2015, 04.2015 – 02.2016, 03.2016 – 02.2017 USAID/International Resources Group
Municipal Energy Reform in Ukraine. Executive researcher.

3. Research activities: development of the Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) and Intended
Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) for Ukraine, in particular CGE-based assessment of the
economic and social effects of different LEDS and INDC implementation scenarios; development and
economic impact assessment of the Ukrainian Energy Strategy draft till 2035; preparation and
participation in training seminars on modelling and strategic planning of the low carbon development in
Ukraine.
11.2013 – 12.2013, 12.2014 – 01.2015 EBRD/Thomson Reuters Markets (Norge) AS
Macroeconomic modelling of carbon charge in Ukraine. Executive researcher.
Research activities: assessment of potential road maps towards implementation of a domestic cap-and-
trade scheme and linking with external cap-and-trade schemes; dynamic CGE-based assessment of the
economic, social and environmental effects of the implementation of domestic emission trading scheme
or emission taxation, including different scenarios of carbon fee levels, tax recycling processes and
sectoral coverage levels.
06.2013 – 12.2014 The State Fund for Fundamental Researches
Improvement of the theoretical and methodological framework for energy efficiency assessment as a
competitive factor of the economies of Belarus and Ukraine. Researcher.
Research activities: assessment of the common energy efficiency measurement methodology and specific
issues of its application to Ukraine; development of the set of indicators for energy efficiency assessment
in Ukraine.
November 2015 Rome 2015 Science Symposium on Climate, Rome, Italy.
Presented: “Sustainable Energy Development Paths for Ukraine: Top-down – Bottom-up Approach”.
May 2015 EBRD Workshop “Preparedness for Emission Trading in the EBRD Region” (PETER), Kyiv,
Ukraine.
Presented: “Economic Impacts of Carbon Reduction Policies”.
November 2014 USAID Workshop-training within the Project “Municipal Energy Reform in
Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Social and Economic Assessment of Long Term Energy Sector Development Paths Using CGE
Model”.
July 2014 22nd
International Input-Output Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Presented: “Reforming energy Consumption Subsidies in Ukraine: A CGE Analysis”.
April 2014 6th
International Scientific Conference "Modern Problems of Social and economic
Systems Modelling", Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Natural Gas and Heat Tariffs Increase: Economic Effects and Compensatory Measures”.
April 2013 5th
International Scientific Conference "Modern Problems of Social and economic
Systems Modelling", Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Energy Subsidies in Ukraine: Estimation Approaches and Applied Valuation”.
March 2013 12th
International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists “Shevchekviska
Vesna: Economics”.
Presented: “Distributional Effects of Electricity Subsidies Elimination in Ukraine: A CGE Analysis”.
May 2011 14th
International Scientific Conference "Mathematical Methods, Models and
Information Technologies in Economy", Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Presented: “Control Problem for the Model of Macroeconomic Dynamics”.
April 2010 9th
International Scientific and Practical Conference for Students and Young Scientists
“Research and technological development: economy, technology and management”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Low-Dimensional Noisy Chaos in Economy”.
October 2009 14th
Ukrainian Scientific Conference "Problems of Economic Cybernetics", Kharkiv,
Ukraine.
Presented: “Market Economy Model Investigation with Variation of Operating Parameters”.
December 2008 2nd
Ukrainian Scientific Students Conference "Economic Processes Modelling and
Forecasting", Kyiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Genetic Algorithms Application for Bankruptcy Prediction Input Data Structure Optimization”.
Selected
conferences
(presentations)

4. November 2008 7th
International Scientific Conference “Entrepreneurship Development as a Factor of
the National Economy Growth”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Bankruptcy Forecasting with the Self-Organizing Maps”.
October 2008 2nd
Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference for Students and Young Scientists
“Problems and Ways to Improve Enterprises Competitiveness”, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
Presented: “Bankruptcy prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks”.
March 2008 7th
International Scientific and Practical Conference for Students and Young Scientists
“Research and technological development: economy, technology and management”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Tax Burden in Ukraine”.
December 2007 1st
Ukrainian Scientific Students Conference "Economic Processes Modelling and
Forecasting", Kyiv, Ukraine.
Presented: “Analysis of the Russian Estate Market Development Dependence on World Oil Prices”.
August 2016 24th Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis
"Introduction to Applied General Equilibrium Analysis in a Multi-Region Framework", Purdue University,
West Lafayette, USA.
April 2016 UNECE 3rd
Workshop “Pathways to Sustainable Development”, Geneve, Switzerland.
June 2015 USAID Workshop “Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development Strategies (EC-LEDS)”,
Kyiv, Ukraine.
September-October 2014 10th
Ruhr Graduate Summer School “Trade and Climate Policy Analysis with
GAMS and MPSGE”, Essen, Germany.
September 2014 Workshop III on Economic Modelling and Trade Policy Development (GTAP), Kyiv,
Ukraine.
June 2014 Workshop II on Economic Modelling and Trade Policy Development (GTAP), Kyiv,
Ukraine.
February 2014 ETSAP-UCC Workshop “Methodologies linking energy systems models and economic
models”, Cork, Ireland.
August 2011 6th
Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics,
Mathematics and Physics”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
August 2010 5th
Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics,
Mathematics and Physics”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
August 2009 4th
Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics,
Mathematics and Physics”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Chepeliev M. (2015) Econometric Estimation of Capital-Labor Substitution Elasticities for Ukrainian CGE
Model, Economy and Forecasting, Vol. 2, pp. 33-46. (Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2653730).
Diachuk O., Podolets R., Serebrennikov B. and Chepeliev M. (2015) Energy Efficiency Policy in Ukraine:
Veritas Momentum, Economy of Ukraine, Vol. 4, pp. 58-69.
Chepeliev M. (2015) Computable General Equilibrium Models: Assessment of Methodological Features.
Economic Theory, Vol. 2., pp. 77-85.
Thomson Reuters Point Carbon (2015) Moving from an improved carbon tax towards emission trading in
Ukraine. London. Available at:
http://www.ebrdpeter.info/uploads/media/report/0001/01/5bfe86f72a295c4cca188574c2f9172adc3b35
a4.pdf
Chepeliev M. (2014) Coal Production Subsidies Elimination in Ukraine: A CGE Analysis (August 25, 2014).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2609315.
Tochilina I., Chepeliev M. and Oleksandrenko Yu. (2014) Output-Based Assessment of the Innovative-
Directed Tax Incentives Efficiency. Formation of market relations in Ukraine, Vol. 2(153), pp. 61-65.
Diachuk O., Podolets R. and Chepeliev M. (2014) An Integrated Approach to Ukrainian Energy System
Development Modelling, Economic Cybernetics, Vol. 1-3(85-87), pp. 37-49.
Selected
workshops and
summer schools
Selected
publications

5. Thomson Reuters Point Carbon (2014) Improving the existing carbon charge in Ukraine as an interim
policy towards emission trading. London. Available at:
http://www.ebrdpeter.info/uploads/media/report/0001/01/bc2fb184727ef64a867f9c42e668cb98a52662
3e.pdf
Chepeliev M. (2014) Modelling and Assessment of the Economic Effects of Subsidy Policy Change on
Ukrainian Natural Gas Market. Economy of Industry, Vol. 3, pp. 25-42.
Kapustyan V. and Chepeliev M. (2014) Economic and Mathematical Modelling of Energy Subsidies Effects:
Principle of Validity. Economic Analysis, Vol. 1(15), pp. 86-100.
Chepeliev M. (2014) Simulation and Economic Impact Evaluation of Ukrainian Electricity Market Tariff Policy Shift.
Economics and Forecasting, Vol. 1, pp. 121-138. (Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2608980)
Chepeliev M. (2014) Energy Subsidies: Quo Vadis? Oil Review, Vol. 20(710), pp. 6-10.
Chepeliev M. (2013) Evaluation of the Economic Effects of Structural Changes in the Domestic Production.
Issues, Trends and Factors of Ukrainian Domestic Market Development. Under the editorship of acad.
Anatoliy Danylenko. Institute for Economics and Forecasting, UNAS, Kyiv, pp. 48-58.
Diachuk O., Podolets R., Tochylin V., Serebrennikov B. and Chepeliev M. (2013) Comprehensive
Assessment of the Economic Effects of Electric Power Export to EU Countries. Ukrainian Journal
Ekonomist, Vol. 2, pp. 20-24.
Podolets R., Diachuk O. and Chepeliev M. (2013) Complex Modelling of Energy Systems’ Development.
Information Technologies and Economic Modelling: Towards Interdisciplinarity. Under the editorship of
prof. Volodymyr Solovyov. Cherkasy: Brama-Ukrayina, pp. 256-278.
Chepeliev M. (2012) Estimation of Multiplier Effects for Ukrainian Industries: a Retrospective Analysis
Based on the «Input-Output» Tables. Ukrainian Journal Ekonomist, Vol. 11, pp. 74-76.
Kapustian V. and Chepeliev M. (2012) Investigation of the Capital Structure Influence on the Economic
Growth. Economic Bulletin of NTUU “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Vol. 9, pp. 489-498.
Kapustian V. and Chepeliev M. (2012) Rational Strategies of Agents' Behavior in the Model of Nonlinear
Macroeconomic Dynamics. Economy and Forecasting, Issue 2, pp. 138-152.
Kapustyan V. and Chepeliev M. (2009) The Investigation of a Model of Spontaneous Market Economy with
Diffusion of Operating Parameters and Control Function. Research Bulletin of NTUU "Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute", Vol. 4, pp. 16-23.
May-July 2016 Online Short Course in Global Trade Analysis, Center for Global Trade Analysis Purdue
University, West Lafayette, USA
International Input-Output Association
2009 All-Ukrainian Student Competition in Computer Science Awardee
2009 Kyiv Mayor Scholarship for Students
2008 National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” Rector Scholarship
Computer: Languages:
GAMS/MPSGE, Matlab, Mathcad,
STATISTICA, Microsoft Office
advanced
Ukrainian, Russian native
English
advanced (C2 level –
CPE certificate)
C/C++, HTML, SPSS, Maple, SQL,
LaTeX, MACTool, GEMPACK
intermediate German elementary
Energy policy, CGE modelling, macroeconomic modelling.
Selected online
courses
Memberships
Awards and
grants
Skills
Research
interests