Teaching

Teaching assistant to Professors Oriana Bandiera and Robin Burgess in 2020–21, 2021–22, and 2023–24.
LSE Teaching Award 2021–22: top approximately 10% (6–8 of 80) of department teaching assistants.
Teaching evaluations

2020–21

4.5 / 5

2021–22

4.7 / 5

2023–24

4.7 / 5

“Incredibly good teaching! Goes beyond and tells us the key points we need to learn from the course. Always helpful when he explains how we can understand the regressions better (especially the equations).” (Winter term 2024)
“Kotia is such an excellent teacher. He communicates ideas effectively and is always ready to help out students in or after class. He’s also good at linking problem set materials with his own knowledge of related papers which is very nice for broadening our understanding of Development Economics.” (Autumn term 2022)
“He is also really good at answering questions in detail and I like the way he makes the slides.” (Autumn term 2021)
“Kotia was the most engaging class teacher I had this term. He was clearly passionate and knowledgeable about the material and wanted to help us understand the material as well.” (Autumn term 2022)
“He explains all of the key concepts extremely well, I always feel that I understand the paper substantially more after his classes.” (Autumn term 2021)