Raisa Bahchieva

Ph.D., Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Major Field: Housing Economics.

M.A., Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

B.A.(Hon.), International Economic Relations, State Finance Academy, Moscow, Russia.

Raisa has over 20 years of experience in design, implementation and management of research projects pertaining primarily, but not exclusively, to housing and demographic issues.  The projects involve analysis of large national and local statistical data sets, primary and administrative data; design of applied socio-economic research and statistical modelling; design of in-person, telephone and mail surveys; collection of primary statistical data via surveys, data entry, and testing data validity; design of focus groups; collection and analysis of qualitative data obtained via focus groups.

Raisa Bahchieva has recently completed two projects at Gerson Lehrman Group, one of which involved assessment of eviction data quality in New York and the other assessment of a statistical model of the housing market in a Middle-East region. Prior to that, she had a long-term contract at Citizens Housing and Planning Council, working on a series of projects on the identification of neighbourhood typology in New York City and the New York Metropolitan Area; analysis of neighbourhoods in transition and measuring the impact of distressed buildings on surrounding properties.  For 13 years, Raisa held the position of Director of Research at New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, where she was conducting and overseeing long-term and short-term data analysis projects on various issues pertaining to building and neighbourhood quality; types of demographic and housing transitions in New York City neighbourhoods; sustainability of homeownership; buildings in physical and financial distress, and overall housing policy in New York City.  She also taught an “Urban Data Analysis” class at Hunter College. 

Previously, Raisa worked as a Consultant at New York University School of Law, participating in a long-term research project "Homeownership and Financial Distress: the Interplay of Tax, Real Estate and Bankruptcy Laws", funded by a Ford Foundation grant.  The work involved complex longitudinal analysis of mortgage debt dynamics using data from several years of American Housing Survey and Survey of Consumer Finances, as well as in-depth analysis of primary data on bankrupt homeowners collected via surveys of bankruptcy petitioners.

Raisa is a native Russian speaker and, for the past 30 years, has lived in the US.

Languages: Russian and English - fluent; German - intermediate.

Email: raisa@senogles.com

Mobile: +1 646-331-9373