Dr Merim Baitimbetova

Merim is a staff tutor and a lecturer in economics at the Open University.  She joined the university as an Associate Lecturer in 2021 tutoring DD126, then as a Lecturer in 2024 and as a Staff Tutor in 2025. Before joining the Open University, she held a lecturer in economics post at Regent’s University London. She has extensive international experience, having held visiting teaching posts in the U.S and Europe: at the School of Public Policy and Seaver College, Pepperdine University, at the University Autonoma de Madrid, at École de management de Normandie in Le Havre and Plekhanov Russian Economic University in Moscow. She received her PhD from the University of Birmingham, where she researched the Political Economy of Integration in Eurasia.

She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Research interests

Merim’s research interests lie in:

• Economic development and growth
• Structural transformation
• Industrial policy
• Regional economic integration
• International trade

Teaching interests

At the OU:

• DD320 Doing Economics
• DD126 Economics in context
• DD217 Essential Economics
• DB 125 You and your money

Previously:

• Principles of Micro and Macroeconomics
• Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomics
• Introduction to Econometrics
• International Trade and Finance
• Development Economics
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Emerging Economic Enterprise
• Research Methods (undergraduate and postgraduate)