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Please join the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a panel discussion with three scholars from Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine and moderated by three REEES faculty at Northwestern.

Tymofiy Mylovanov is the KSE President, Associate Professor of the University of Pittsburgh, former minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine. 
During his professional career, he has been teaching at the European and American universities, including Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh.  Mylovanov's research interests cover such areas as theory of games and contracts, institutional design. His articles on these topics have been published in the leading international academic magazines, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies. During the Revolution of Dignity, jointly with other leading economists of Ukraine and the world, he founded the VoxUkraine platform aimed to increase the level of economic discussion in Ukraine.

Nataliia Shapoval is the Chairman of KSE Institute and Vice President for Policy Research.  She guided and conducted policy research on public procurement, cost of HIV disease, the financial burden of health care costs, private-sector driven growth strategies. She served as a contributor to the Ukraine reform monitoring project of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Also, Shapoval is a member of the Editorial Board of VoxUkraine.

Tymofii Brik is a researcher at KSE, co-founder of the public restaurant UrbanSpace500 and chairman of the supervisory board of CEDOS. In 2018, he received the N. Panina “The best young sociologist of Ukraine” award. He received his Ph.D. in social science at the University of Carlos III (Madrid) and obtained a Master’s degree in Sociology and Social Research from Utrecht University. In 2018 and 2019-2020 he was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and New York University respectively.

Jordan Gans-Morse is an Associate Professor of Political Science and faculty director of REEES, Northwestern University. His ongoing research focuses on corruption, the rule of law, property rights, and political and economic transitions. His primary regional expertise is the former Soviet Union.

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University. He has been appointed a Fulbright Specialist on Eastern Europe; a Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; a Visiting Professor at the Free Ukrainian University in Munich, and an honorary doctor of the National University Kyiv Mohyla academy in Kyiv.

Ian Kelly is the Ambassador in Residence, Northwestern University, former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)