Board of Directors

Victor Pinchuk, Honorary Chair

Victor Pinchuk is one of Ukraine’s most successful businessmen, whose role in civic, international affairs, and charitable organizations has made him a leader in Ukraine’s growing interaction with Europe and the world. He graduated with honors from the Dnipropetrovs’k Metallurgical Institute in 1983 and earned a PhD degree in 1987 before starting his career as a research engineer in pipe production. In 1990, he founded Interpipe Company on the basis of his patented innovations in pipe design, engineering and production, which were successfully adopted by leading metallurgical factories in the former USSR. In 2006, he founded EastOne Ltd., an international investment advisory company whose portfolio comprises more than 20 businesses and large-scale projects, including Interpipe and media assets in Ukraine and internationally. Mr. Pinchuk served two terms as an elected Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, from 1998 to 2006. In 2003, he decided to retire from politics to focus on his business and philanthropic activities. For more than 12 years Mr. Pinchuk has been developing and supporting a number of philanthropic projects in Ukraine. In 2006, he consolidated these activities under the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which became the largest private Ukrainian philanthropic foundation. The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, together with EERC, founded the Kyiv School of Economics.  

• Anders Aslund, Co-Chair; Peterson Institute for International Economics

Anders Åslund has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute since 2006. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He examines the economies of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as well as focuses on the broader implications of economic transition. He worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1994 to 2005, first as a senior associate and then from 2003 as director of the Russian and Eurasian Program. He also worked at the Brookings Institution and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. He was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics. He worked as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, and Moscow. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and an honorary professor of the Kyrgyz National University. He is co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Kyiv School of Economics and chairman of the Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw. Dr. Åslund is the author or coauthor of ten books.   

• Regina Yan, Co-Chair; Eurasia Foundation

Regina Yan is a specialist in institutional and capacity building for international non-profits. As the Executive Vice President at The Eurasia Foundation, Ms. Yan has transformed its offices into four independent regional foundations. She also managed the establishment of the Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) from an incubated project within the Eurasia Foundation into an independent institution which now administers the Kyiv School of Economics. Ms. Yan served on the management team of the Media Viability Fund, a program that provided technical assistance and loan funds to independent media outlets in Russia and Ukraine. From 1992-2000, Ms. Yan held various senior management positions at IREX where she provided management oversight to the IREX field operations in 22 countries. She also launched its Asian program with Mongolia and China and spearheaded it strategic organization restructuring. From 1988 to 1992, Ms. Yan managed various international programs at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Research Council where she worked with former Soviet Union, Asia and the Middle East. Regina Yan received her B.A. from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington and her graduate degrees from the University of Hawaii. In addition to being the co-chair of the Kyiv School of Economics, she also serves on the board of East Europe Foundation.  

• Olexandr Rohozynsky, Ex officio, EERC/KSE

Oleksandr Rohozynsky, Ph.D., is a Director of Kyiv School of Economics and President of the Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC, Inc.). He replaced Prof. Tomas Coupe at this position on July 1, 2010.
 
Dr. Rohozynsky is an economist with expensive experience managing and evaluating international development projects and managing research institutions. Before becoming Director of KSE, Oleksandr worked as an Associate with the QED Group, LLC, a consulting company in Washington, DC. He also was an Executive Director of CASE Ukraine, a Ukrainian think-tank in 2003- 2006.
 
His experience includes evaluation of impact of development programs for UNDP, development of econometric models for economy of Ukraine, being main consultant and editor of section on education reform in Ukraine for the UNDP Blue Ribbon Commission Report to the President of Ukraine; developing monitoring and evaluation framework for DC youth development programs and evaluating school performance in the USA., and leading small business surveys in Ukraine. Dr. Rohozynsky managed group of international advisors for the Prime-Minister of Ukraine and participated as an advisor in development of reform packages by Secretarial of the President of Ukraine. He worked in Afghanistan, Belarus, Moldova, Pakistan, Uganda, Ukraine, and the USA.
 
Oleksandr holds masters degrees in Applied Mathematics, Economics, Policy Analysis, and Business Administration, and Ph.D. in Policy Analysis at the RAND Graduate School.  His doctoral dissertation “Developing a Safety Net for Ukraine” explored issues of development of social safety nets (SSN) in countries in transition, Ukraine in particular, and looked at whether reducing social security expenditures to stimulate economic growth policy is an effective way to combat poverty in such countries.  

• Max Alier,  International Monetary Fund

Max Alier has been working as IMF resident representative in Ukraine since February, 2009. 
He has over twelve-years of experience at IMF. During his career at the IMF he has accumulated vast experience in providing economic advice and leading teams of IMF economists. In particular, he worked as the IMF resident representative in Brazil for four year, headed the mission to Trinidad and Tobago for 2 years. He has also worked with several Emerging Market economies, including Argentina, Ecuador, Indonesia, Chile, and Peru. While in Ukraine, he developed proactive relations with decision-makers at the highest level of Ukrainian Authorities while also working closely with technical level officials in order to promote an implementation of the economic program supported by the IMF financing under Stand-by arrangement between Ukraine and the IMF. The total amount of financing available to Ukraine under the SBA agreement concluded with the IMF last Novermber is SDR 11.0 billion (or USD 16.5) of which SDR  7.0 billion (or USD 10.5) has been already disbursed. Max Alier obtained his PhD at the University of California-Los Angeles and obtained his bachelor and master degrees at the Catholic University of Chile. He has held teaching positions at the University of California-Los Angeles (USA), Univerdidad Andres Bello (Chile), and Universidad de Talca (Chile).

• Richard Ericson, Chairman of the Research Network IAB; East Carolina University

Richard Ericson graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1971, received an MIA Degree from the Columbia University School of International Affairs in 1974, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. Beginning with his dissertation on the Soviet Industrial Supply System, Professor Ericson has done research and teaching in economic theory, the Soviet economy, and the Russian transition at Harvard University (1978-1983), Yale University (1982), Northwestern University (1981, 1983-1985), the New Economic School in Moscow (1996), Urals State University in Ekaterinburg (1999, 2000), the Kazakh National University in Almaty (2002), Columbia University (1985-2003), and East Carolina University (2003-present). He has served as Associate Director (1991) and Director (1992-1995) of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and is currently Chair and Professor in the Harriot College Economics Department at East Carolina University, Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the EERC (Economic Education and Research Consortium) Network Program, and member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of EERC, Inc.  

• Paul Gregory, Chairman of the KSE IAB; University of Houston

Paul Gregory, a Hoover Institution research fellow, holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, and is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of twelve books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography including Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 2008), The Political Economy of Stalinism (2004), Before Command: The Russian Economy from Emancipation to Stalin (1994), Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy (1990, reissued 2006), and Russian National Income, 1885–1913 (1982, reissued 2005). He has edited Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy (2001) and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (2003), both published by Hoover Press and summarizing his research group's work on the Soviet state and party archives. His publications based on work in the Hoover Archives have been awarded the Hewett Book Prize and the J.M. Montias Prize for the best article in the Journal of Comparative Economics. The research of his Hoover Soviet Archives Research Project team is summarized in part in "Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archive" (coauthored with Hoover fellow Mark Harrison), published in the September issue of the Journal of Economic Literature. 

• Hryhoriy Nemyria, Former Vice Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs

Dr. Nemyria occupied a position of the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Previously he served as Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's foreign policy advisor, a member of parliament, Deputy Head of the Permanent Parliamentary Delegation to the PACE, and the Ukrainian delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2006-2007). Dr. Nemyria is Founder and Director of the Center for European and International Studies at the Kyiv National University, and Honorary Chair of the Department for European Integration at the National Academy of Public Administration. In 1996-1998, he was Vice Rector and Dean of the Graduate School at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Dr. Nemyria was a visiting Professor at the Institute for Political Studies in Bordeaux (1998), a visiting Lecturer at the NATO Defense College in Rome (1999), Co-Director and Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Coordinator for the NATO Forum on Energy Security (2006), and a National Forum Foundation Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1994). He is a graduate of the Harvard Ukrainian National Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He holds an MA from the Donetsk University and a Ph.D. from the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University.  

• William Newton-Smith, Open Society Institute (OSI)

Bill Newton-Smith is a philosopher of science who recently retired from teaching at Balliol College, Oxford University after 36 years. He has worked for many years on the reform of higher education in the post-communist world and is on the board of a number of universities. He is active in the Soros Foundation network as chair of the Open Society Institute’s Higher Education Sub-Board and as chair of the Open Society Foundation (London). In addition to the Kyiv School of Economics, he serves on board of numerous higher educational institutions in the Eurasia region, including the American University of Central Asia and the International School of Economics in Tbilisi.  

• Gerardo della Paolera, Global Development Network

Dr. Gerardo della Paolera is the President of the Global Development Network. Dr. della Paolera was the Founding President and Rector of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina, and most recently worked as the President of The American University of Paris (AUP), in Paris, France. Dr. della Paolera is President Emeritus and Professor of Economics at AUP, a Visiting Professor at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and also a Visiting Fellow at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.  

• Leonid Petukhov, Geo Alliance Concern

Leonid Petukhov is a CEO of Geo Alliance Concern. From 2000 to 2007 he worked for McKinsey & Company as an Engagement Manager. From 1998 to 2000 he was  lawyer in the Taxation Department of Baker & McKenzie. Leonid obtained a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He graduated from the Russian Federation’s State Finance Academy and the Moscow State Law Academy.  

• Irina Paliashvili, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

Irina Paliashvili is the founder and President of the Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group, the first and only law Ukrainian firm with offices in Kyiv and Washington, DC. The firm is one of the first private law firms in Kiev founded since the independent of Ukraine in 1992. She is a mediator trained and certified by the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution in New York, a founding member of the Moscow Center for Dispute Resolution, a member of the INTA International Panel of Neutrals, and a member of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution International Panel of Distinguished Neutrals. She also serves on the Board of Reporters of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration of the Center for American and International Law (ITA) as Reporter for Ukraine. Dr. Paliashvili graduated with high honors from the Kiev State University School of International Law in 1983 and received a Ph.D. in Private International Law from the same school in 1987. She also holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from George Washington University (1993).  

• Jorge Zukoski, American Chamber of Commerce

Mr. Jorge Zukoski is the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine which is among the most active and effective non-government, non-profit business organizations operating in Ukraine. One of the principal activities of the organization is to represent the foreign investment community as well as to facilitate the entrance of potential new investors into the market. The Chamber advocates on behalf of their Members not only to the Ukrainian government, but also to all other governments, which are economic partners of Ukraine, on matters of trade, commerce, and economic reform. The Member organizations of the Chamber represent many of the largest strategic and institutional investors operating in Ukraine who have committed a majority of the foreign direct investment into the market. The diverse Membership base unites leading companies from over 50 nations across the globe and includes companies from a variety of regions and countries, including North America, Europe, Asia, Russia, and Ukraine. Chamber Members collectively employ hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, providing them with exposure to international business practices and the opportunity to develop into leading professionals. Chamber Members also bring international expertise and business knowledge to Ukraine, are among some of the largest taxpayers in the country, and strive to be good corporate citizens. Mr. Zukoski, an American citizen of Venezuelan and Polish descent, received his Master's of Business Administration in international management from the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University (Texas, USA). He lived and worked in Mexico City and the Cayman Islands prior to arriving in Ukraine in 1996.

• Yuriy Yekhanurov, Former Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Secretariat

International Advisory Board

Comprised of prominent scholars from around the globe, the KSE International Advisory Board for oversees the academic quality of the KSE Master’s Program.

Members of the Board include:

• Professor Paul Gregory, Chair; University of Houston, USA
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• Paul Gregory is Cullen Distinguished Chair of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, and a Hoover Institution research fellow at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author or coauthor of 12 books and many articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography. His articles have been published in the American Economic review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economics and Statistics. 

• Professor Charles Becker, Duke University, USA

Charles M. Becker currently serves as Associate Chair of Duke University's Economics Department and concurrently directs the MA program in Economics. He joined Duke in 2003, and held previous positions at the University of Colorado at Denver (1999-2003), the University of Colorado at Boulder (1987-2003), the Economics Institute (1987-1998), and Vanderbilt University (1982-1986). He received his Ph.D from Princeton University. In addition to his positions held in academia, he has been a consultant for the World Bank, a senior economist at the consultancies Pragma and IMCC, and a senior advisor within the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Team Leader of an Asian Development Bank pension reform technical assistance project to the Kyrgyz Republic.  

• Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia University, Columbia Business School, USA

Professor Calomiris is  Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions (beginning March 2003; previously Paul M. Montrone Professor, 1996-March 2003), Division of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, 1996-present.  He received his Ph.D from Stanford University.

Professor Calomiris is one of the world’s leading authorities on financial institutions. His research spans the areas of banking, corporate finance, financial history and monetary economics. He has advised numerous firms, agencies and governments on the performance and regulation of financial institutions. Calomiris is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and directs the American Enterprise Institute’s project on financial regulation. He teaches international banking and a case course on business and finance in emerging market economies.

Calomiris has published papers in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Business, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Annals of Finance, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Financial Services Research,. Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Explorations in Economic History, 1993-2003. 

• Professor Irwin Collier, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Irwin Collier holds the Chair of Public Finance and Social Policy, Free University of Berlin. He is also a Research Fellow of Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, and a Member of the History of Economic Theory Commission of the Verein fur Sozialpolitik. Before coming to the Freie Universitat Berlin in 1994, he taught at the University of Houston (USA), at CERGE in Prague and Seoul National University in Korea. Irwin Collier's articles have been published in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Journal of Comparative Economics. His research interests include the economic theory behind economic index numbers, the economic reconstruction of post-wall Eastern Germany, and the political economy of social welfare reform. He received his Ph.D from MIT.  

• Professor George Daly, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, USA

George Daly is professor and dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a position he assumed in November 2005. Prior to his Georgetown appointment, Daly served as the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Business Administration at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. From 1993 to 2002, he was the Dean of the Stern School at NYU. During his Deanship, the Stern School rose in national prominence, achieving top 10 ranking for all of its undergraduate and graduate degree programs for the first time. Before going to NYU, Daly served as Dean and Professor at the College of Business Administration at the University of Iowa. He also has held senior posts in the White House, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and as a consultant to the National Football League. He serves on several corporate boards and as an advisor to a number of minority start ups. Dean Daly received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.  

• Professor John Earle, George Mason University, USA

John S. Earle joined the School of Public Policy at the George Mason University in August 2010. Previously, he has taught at the Central European University (1991-2010), Stanford University (1990-2000), the Stockholm School of Economics (1997-2001), and the University of Vienna (1991); and he has been an affiliated researcher with the Institute for International Studies at Stanford (1995-97), the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (1997-2001), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, since 1999), the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2007), the Center for Advanced Studies in Vienna (1991-92) and the Brookings Institution (1987). He received his Ph.D. from Stanford.

Earle’s research focuses on the firm-level and worker-level effects of public policies, labor markets, political economy, firm performance, privatization and corporate governance, entrepreneurship, industry dynamics, organizational practices, and the consequences of restructuring for employees. His publications include more than 50 articles in refereed scholarly journals, four books and numerous chapters in edited volumes.

Earle’s policy experience includes stints at the Council of Economic Advisers, the Congressional Budget Office, and the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., and policy advising and consulting with the World Bank, OECD, USAID, and the Russian-European Center for Economic Policy. He is also Director of the Labor Project at the Central European University and president-elect of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies.

• Professor Franz Palm, University of Maastricht, Netherlands

Franz Palm was appointed Academy Professor in Econometrics by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Since 1985 he has been a professor of econometrics at Maastricht University. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, 1986-1989, 1998-2001, and 2004-2006.  Prior to that he was a professor of econometrics at the Free University, Amsterdam, 1980-1985. Prior to that, Palm was a research associate at CORE, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.  Palm has been a visiting professor at the University of Louvain and at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University and at Université de Montréal. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the European Economic Association and of CESifo,  and a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. Palm is founding co-editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, a member of the editorial board of De Economist, an associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics and a former associate editor of the Journal of Economic and Business Statistics and the European Economic Review. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg (Switzerland).  

• Professor Joseph Pelzman, George Washington University, USA

Joseph Pelzman is Professor of Economics, International Affairs and Law. He came to The George Washington University in September 1980, after completing a year as a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow, where he co-authored the Report on US Competitiveness for the White House. He previously served as Assistant Professor of economics at the University of South Carolina. Professor Pelzman has held appointments at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel); Visiting Professor of Law and Economics at Catholic University Law School, Visiting Professor of Law at the Radzyner School of Law, Research Associate, The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Pelzman has published articles in a number of leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, European Economic Review, and Southern Economic Journal. His primary professional interests are in the areas of international trade, international trade law and law and economics. His current work centers on terror and its economic impact:: an econometric approach measuring volatility, delinking tariff liberalization and domestic tax reforms; deconstructing economic development in the Middle East - the Israel's experience as the standard; post-MFA textile & apparel competition; and the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding: enforcement and revision issues.  

• Professor John Taylor, Stanford University, USA

John Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA, and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford University's Hoover Institution; He taught at Columbia University from 1973–1980 and the Woodrow Wilson School and Economics Department of Princeton University from 1980–1984 before returning to Stanford. He has received several teaching prizes and teaches Stanford's introductory economics course as well as Ph.D. courses in monetary economics.

An expert on monetary policy, in a 1993 paper he proposed the “Taylor rule,” which provides a guide to central banks on how to determine interest rates. He has been active in public policy, serving as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the first term of the George W. Bush Administration. His book Global Financial Warriors chronicles this period. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the George H. W. Bush administration and Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Ford Administration. Professor Taylor is a frequent commentator on the U.S. and world economy in the major media.  

• Professor Mark P. Taylor, Global Market Strategies Group, UK

Professor Mark P Taylor is Dean of Warwick Business School. He has held a professorship in international finance at Warwick since 1999. From 2006 he worked as a Managing Director at BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, where he led the European arm of the Global Market Strategies Group, a large global macro investment fund. Professor Taylor's research on exchange rates and international financial markets has been published extensively in many of the leading academic and practitioner journals, and he is one of the most highly cited researchers in finance and economics in the world. He is generally one of the top 1% of authors worldwide in the Repec rankings, updated monthly.  

• Professor Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School, Russia

Konstantin Sonin is SUEK Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow. In 2002 and 2003, Sonin was awarded the Best Economist award by the President of the Russian Academy of Science. In 2004, he received the Gold Medal of the Global Development Network for his paper on the sources of political demand for bad institutions. His academic papers appeared in leading academic journals such as Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.  

• Professor Jürgen Wolters, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany 

Professor Juergen Wolters is Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin. Prior to that he served as Professor of Applied Econometrics at Mannheim University. Wolters is among the top ten published German economists and is noted for his classic studies of time series econometrics and business cycles. He has been a frequent advisor to the German Bundesbank. He served as chair of economics at the Free University of Berlin several times. He has published papers on German and international business cycles and monetary policy as well as theoretical work on time series econometrics. His papers appear in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Statistical Papers, and  Economic Letters. His book Introduction to Modern Time Series Analysis was published by Springer in 2007. Wolters is a member of the Verein fuer Sozialpolitik, the Econometric Society, and the International Statistics Institute. 

• Professor Robert Baldwin, University of Wisconsin, USA (Board Members Emeritus)