Ewa M. Błaszczynska is a research analyst at CEPA, specializing in economic policy, trade and investment strategy, and private sector development in Central and Eastern Europe. She holds a Master's Degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a concentration in Emerging Market Economics and European Studies.  She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University with a double major in Political Science and International Studies.  Eva has studied at the SAIS Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy as well as at The Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has traveled extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, South America, and Asia.

Previously, she spent four years working in management consulting for firms including Booz Allen Hamilton, A.T. Kearney (Global Business Policy Council), and Censeo Consulting Group. She has also worked as an intern at the U.S. Department of Commerce Central and Eastern European Business Information Center. Prior to graduate school she was a Herbert Scoville International Security Fellow with the Henry L. Stimson Center.

Her current research focus includes the sustainability of Central and Eastern Europe economies, European monetary integration, and the affects of the global financial crisis on private sector development in the region.