Board of Directors
The main governing body of KSE. Once a year, board members approve policies, review work areas, and set priorities for the coming years. Senior advisors and the Honorary Chairman work alongside the board.
Olena Bilan
Co-chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Strategic Committee
Head of the Research Department, Chief Economist, Dragon Capital
Makar Paseniuk
Co-chair of the Supervisory Board, Chair of the Fundraising Committee
ICU
Founding Partner, ICU
Torbjorn Becker
Member of the Board of Advisors
Director of SITE
Tomas Fiala
Member of the Board of Advisors
CEO, Dragon Capital
John E. Herbst
Director of the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Director of the Eurasia Center, Dinu Patrick, Atlantic Council
Newton Howard
Member of the Board of Advisors
Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Oxford
Professor Emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology; Member of Congregation of the University of Oxford
Alex Lissitsa
Member of the Board of Advisors
Chief Executive Officer, IMC
Gary Marx
Member of the Board of Advisors
President of Defenders of Faith and Religious Freedom in Ukraine; Madison Strategies LLC
Michael A. McFaul
Member of the Board of Advisors
Freeman Spogli Institute
Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI); former Advisor to the President of the United States
Roger Myerson
Member of the Supervisory Board, Chair of the International Academic Council
University of Chicago
Nobel laureate in Economics (2007); University of Chicago
Tymofiy Mylovanov
President of KSE
Professor at the University of Pittsburgh; Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture (2019–2020); KSE ’99
William B. Taylor
Member of the Board of Advisors
United States Institute of Peace
8th U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine; United States Institute of Peace
Lola Woetzel
Member of the Supervisory Board
McKinsey, MGI
Senior Partner, McKinsey; Director, MGI
Oleksandr Zholud
Member of the Board of Directors of Kyiv School of Economics
Chief Expert, National Bank of Ukraine
Anders Åslund
Senior Advisor to the KSE Board of Directors; Resident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Atlantic Council
Yurii Gorodnichenko
Senior Advisor
Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
Regina Yan
Senior Adviser
COO, PCORI; Eurasia Foundation