Prior to joining the Economics Discipline Group at UTS, Anastasia acquired corporate experience working with the mergers and acquisitions advisory group at KPMG (Sydney), corporate and acquisition finance team at St. George Bank (Sydney), and tax advisory departments at PWC and KPMG (Moscow).

Anastasia earned her PhD in Economics at the University of Sydney (Australia). Her research work started with the empirical analysis of the Russian labour market focusing on labour market inequalities and gender occupational differences. A recent focus of her research has been in the area of health economics and real estate.

Since joining UTS, Anastasia has developed, coordinated and taught a new course in Labour Economics. She has also been teaching and coordinating both postgraduate and undergraduate courses including Economics for Management, Economics of the Firm, Economics for Business (1 and 2), Macroeconomics: Theory and Applications and Quantitative Business Analysis.