We proudly announce that Oleksandra Matviichuk, a human rights defender and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, has joined the KSE International Academic Board.<\/p>\n
Oleksandra leads the Center for Civil Liberties and coordinates the \u201cEuromaidan SOS\u201d initiative, created during the Revolution of Dignity to protect activists from persecution. Since 2014, her team has documented war crimes by the Russian Federation in occupied Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Following the full-scale invasion, she has continued to engage in global advocacy, raising awareness of human rights violations and fundraising for essential Ukrainian initiatives.<\/p>\n
Her efforts have earned her numerous prestigious awards, including the Vasyl Stus Prize, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and the Defender of Democracy Award. She has also received the U.S. State Department’s \u201cInternational Woman of Courage\u201d award and was named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2022. In 2023, Oleksandra Matviichuk won the KSE Foundation’s Talents for Ukraine grant program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEducation during the war is not only a long-term investment in building democracy but also an act of resistance against Russian aggression. Russia wants to deprive Ukrainian youth of a future, and we cannot allow this. Therefore, I am pleased to join the International Academic Board of KSE and contribute where possible,\u201d said Oleksandra Matviichuk.<\/p>\n
In 2024, alongside Oleksandra Matviichuk, Maryna Viazovska and Serhii Plokhii also joined the KSE International Academic Board.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith these distinguished additions, the International Academic Board is expanding its focus beyond traditional economics to support KSE\u2019s growth in other key academic fields, including history, mathematics, and law. All members of the board are committed to helping KSE realize its full potential as a leading center of education and research for Ukraine and the world,\u201d said Roger Myerson, Chair of the KSE International Academic Board and 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics.<\/p>\n
Maryna Viazovska is a Ukrainian mathematician and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). She was awarded the 2022 Fields Medal for her solution to the sphere-packing problem in eight-dimensional space\u2014a longstanding challenge in geometry. Her groundbreaking work has made a significant contribution to contemporary mathematics and geometry. Currently, she leads the EPFL Number Theory Chair and continues her research in geometric problems and Fourier analysis.<\/p>\n
Serhii Plokhii is the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard and one of the world\u2019s leading experts on the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe. His bestsellers include The Gates of Europe, The Last Empire, The Cossack Myth, Yalta: The Price of Peace, and The Russo-Ukrainian War, which was listed among The Telegraph’s 50 best books of 2023.<\/p>\n
The updated members of the KSE International Academic Board include:<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Roger Myerson<\/b> \u2014 Nobel Laureate in Economics (2007), Professor at the University of Chicago (Chair of the Board);<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dmytro Holod<\/b> \u2014 Associate Dean at Stony Brook College of Business, State University of New York; KSE 2000 graduate;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Charles Becker<\/b> \u2014 Associate Chair, Economics Department, Duke University;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Michael Burda<\/b> \u2014 Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Yuriy Gorodnichenko<\/b> \u2014 Former Chairman of the KSE IAB, Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; KSE 2001 graduate;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Paul Gregory<\/b> \u2014 Professor, University of Houston;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Viktoria Hnatkovska<\/b> \u2014 Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; KSE 2000 graduate;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tymofiy Mylovanov<\/b> \u2014 President of KSE, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, former Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine (2019-20); KSE 1999 graduate;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Anna Nagurney<\/b> \u2014 Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Serhii Plokhii<\/b> \u2014 Professor at Harvard University, Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Konstantin Sonin<\/b> \u2014 Professor, University of Chicago;<\/p>\n
\u2022 Maryna Viazovska<\/b> \u2014 Ukrainian mathematician, Professor at EPFL, Fields Medal laureate;<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Oleksandra Matviichuk<\/b> \u2014 Human rights defender and Chair of the Center for Civil Liberties, recipient of Ukraine\u2019s first Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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