While studying at Humboldt University, Alex Lissitsa worked as a research assistant. After graduation he was invited to work as a leading researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (Halle, Germany).

In 2006–2007 he held the position of General Director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation.

In 2007 he founded and headed the association “Ukrainian Agribusiness Club” (UCAB).

In 2009–2011 he held the position of Non-executive Director of Agroton Public Limited, one of the largest agricultural producers in Ukraine.

Alex Lissitsa was an advisor to the Minister for Agrarian Policies of Ukraine Yuriy Melnyk and the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In 2012 he held the position of Non-executive Director of Industrial Milk Company (IMC).

Since May 2013, Alex Lissitsa has been the CEO of IMC.

Alex Lissitsa is the Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Center for European Policy.

Since 2017, Alex Lissitsa has been the Chairman of the Council for Agrarian Education at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Since 2017 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Academy of Corporate Governance.

Since 2019, he has been the founder and actively developing the program of training specialists of a wide profile “Agrokebety” on the basis of the Faculty of Agrarian Management of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, which allows students to obtain a state-recognized diploma.

Education:

• Master’s degree in “Economics of the Enterprises” of the National Agricultural University of Ukraine (Kyiv).
• PhD degree in Agriculture at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany).
• Post-Doc Fellow at the School of Economics, The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) and Iowa State University (USA).