KSE University in 2022

Despite massive attacks and threats, Ukrainian academia prevails. In the summer of 2022, our university built certified bomb shelters with classrooms inside to keep students on campus. We installed a Starlink and new generators, prepared water and food supplies. Our admission campaign brought 170 new students to the KSE family amid the war.

George Washington University provided 115,000 USD to support 12 scholars in Ukraine, University of Massachusetts Amherst provided 75,000 USD to support 15 scholars. European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) supported thirteen KSE teachers and nine students with 32,000 EUR.

Furthermore, within the Ukrainian Global University project, we also received 40,000 USD from the Center of Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh, to support research activities of our staff. In partnership with RESTUD we allocate scholarships to students and early career researchers.

• Summer School in Data-driven Publishing by Dr. Arthur Small who arrived in person to Kyiv from the University of Virginia.

• Summer School in Memory and Conflict Studies

Lecturers: Serhii Plokhii, Marci Shore, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Rory Finnin

• Artificial Intelligence: Overview & Business Applications. KSE online summer school, 

Instructor: Pini Ben-Or, Chief Science Officer at Aktana (a sales & marketing systems startup)

• Summer School in Urban Studies and Disaster Management «Critical Skills for Critical Periods» Lecturers: Charles Becker, Kaichao Chang, Peter Devine, Stephanie Dodd, Chad Kalil

• Urban Summer School: Building back a better Ukraine organized with Method Büro, CEDOS, Groningen University, Tilburg University, Borodyanka Territorial Community, and Kyiv Regional Military Administration.

KSE faculty also organized a new series of Urban Development Talks

Lecturers: Donald Shoup, Michael Batty, Mike Lydon, Han van de Wetering

• Sir Geoffrey Nice, a British lawyer and judge who worked at the International Criminal Tribunal from 1998 to 2006 and was a lead prosecutor in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.

• Balint Magyar, Hungarian liberal politician and world-renowned sociologist. Former Minister of Education (1996-1998, 2002-2006). 

• Luis Garicano Gabilondo, a Spanish economist and politician, former Member of the European Parliament from Spain.

Since the beginning of the invasion, KSE staff received various fellowships at UMass, LSE, Northwestern, AAUBS, George Mason, Princeton, IAMO, Hitotsubashi, George Mason, University of South Denmark, University of Iowa, Pittsburgh University

Programing for international universities:

Dr. Anton Liagusha, dean of social and humanities, taught a 10 week online seminar at the New School (Media and Policy in the Era of Fake News)

Dr. Ivan Gomza, academic director, developed a course in Ukrainian Politics and Society for the Virginia Commonwealth University (Spring 2023).

Dr. Tymofii Brik, rector, is invited to teach a course on Ukrainian society at the sociology department at Northwestern University in Spring 2023.

International academic conferences:

Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi, dean, contributed in person to the organized session on World Food Consequences of the War on Ukraine at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics in Anaheim, USA, and on the Implications of Russia’s War on Ukraine at the 2022 Meeting of the German Association of Agricultural Economists in Stuttgart, Germany. Also Oleg was invited to give a lecture on The effects of Russia’s Invasion on Ukraine’s Agriculture and Implications for Global Food Security at the University of Goettingen (Germany). 

KSE is the first Ukrainian university to become part of the Open Society University Network. With a significant support of OSUN, KSE has become engaged with a number of scholars who agreed to teach Ukrainian students.

OSUN «Teach for Ukraine» fellows:

• Emma L. Briant, Fellow of Center for Media, Data and Society at CEU

• Dr. Ceyhun Elgin, Professor at the American University of Bulgaria

KSE «Teach for Ukraine» fellows:

KSE has united international scholars in their endeavor to teach and support students during the war. Amidst the war, KSE launched the «Teach for Ukraine» project, which has already paid off for our students and faculty. This project invites international scholars to donate at least eight hours of their time to teach and grade Ukrainian graduate and undergraduate students. 

The list of scholars will be updated.

KSE University contributed to regular discussions organized by the Munk School at the University of Toronto, Viadrina University, Buffett Institute at Northwestern, LSE, University of Pittsburgh.

Chair of the International Academic Board:

• Roger Myerson — Nobel Laureate in Economics 2007, Professor at the University of Chicago

Deputy Chairman of the International Academic Board:

• Dmytro Holod — Associate Dean at the Stony Brook College of Business at New York State University; KSE`2000

Members of the International Academic Board:

• Charles Becker — Associate Chair of Duke University’s Economics Department

• Michael Burda — Professor at School of Business and Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin

• Yuriy Gorodnichenko — Former chairman of the KSE IAB, Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley; KSE’2001

• Paul Gregory — Professor at the University of Houston

• Viktoria Hnatkovska — Associate professor at University of British Columbia in Vancouver; KSE`2000

• Tymofiy Mylovanov — KSE President, Associate Professor of the University of Pittsburgh, the Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine (2019-20); KSE’1999

• Anna Nagurney —  Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Larry Samuelson — Professor at Yale University

• Konstantin Sonin — Professor at University of Chicago and HSE