OREANDA-NEWS. May 26, 2011. Renaissance Capital, the leading emerging markets investment bank, has appointed Ivan Tchakarov as Chief Economist for Russia & CIS, and Natalia Suseeva as Analyst, Economics Research.

Mr. Tchakarov and Ms. Suseeva further enhance Renaissance’s award-winning Russia & CIS economics group, anchoring these core coverage regions in the Firm’s global research offering.

Mr. Tchakarov will have responsibility for daily coverage of all Russia & CIS economics research, with direct management responsibility for the Russia & CIS economics research team. He joins Renaissance from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Moscow, where he held a similar position. Prior to that, Mr. Tchakarov was Chief Economist for Russia & CIS at Nomura/Lehman Brothers, and an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where as part of the Asia-Pac Department he took part in a number of country assignments, including Thailand, Myanmar and the Maldives.

Ms. Sudeeva joins Renaissance from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she worked as an analyst in the global macro research department. Prior to that, she worked as an audit consultant within the utilities and mining group at PwC in Moscow.