Mariia Statkova

Mariia Statkova is a Student Researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development and the SETRI Institute at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Economics, Law, and Politics.

Her main interests include cultural policy, cultural economics, and the social and economic status of performing arts professionals. She has been a Don Lavoie Fellow at the Mercatus Center (George Mason University, USA) and has presented her research at various conferences.

Mariia has a background in performing arts production and research from the W.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko School of the Moscow Art Theatre. She has worked at theatre festivals and in the International Department of the Theatre Union of the Russian Federation, where she led the “Mobility Info.Russia” project and supported the UNIMA and ASSITEJ Russia offices.