Dina joined EREA in 2024 as Senior Economist (Climate Change). Prior to joining ADB, she was Senior Research Fellow in the Asian Development Bank Institute (Japan).  Previously she worked at the National University of Singapore, University of Reading (United Kingdom) and the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan.   She earned her PhD in economics from the University of Essex (United Kingdom). In the recent years, much of her research analyzes original firm-level data to understand decisions affecting carbon emissions. Just in the past several years, she has published articles in World Development, Energy Economics, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Climate Policy. She served as guest editor of Applied Energy, Energy Economics and Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment.