Biography
Oleksandra Keudel is an Associate Professor and the Vice-Chair for Science at the Social Sciences Department of the Kyiv School of Economics. She is also a founding director of the Center for Democratic Resilience at KSE. Her research focuses on democratic transformation and societal resilience, with a specialization in Ukraine’s sub-national politics. She is currently leading the KSE team in the EU Horizon Europe-funded project Building resilient innovations in democracy, governance and excellence (BRIDGE, grant 101160337).
She is also a fellow at the Center for East European and International Studies (ZoIS) and the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, George Washington University, New York University, and Södertörn University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin. She is the author of “How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine,” (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/how-patronal-networks-shape-opportunities-for-local-citizen-participation-in-a-hybrid-regime/9783838216713/) published by ibidem/Columbia University Press in 2022. Oleksandra is a member of PONARS Eurasia, the German-Ukrainian Academic Society, and a co-editor of the Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Series at Nomos Publishing House (Germany).
Oleksandra combines academic research with policy consulting on open government and public integrity for international organizations such as the Council of Europe, GIZ, and IIEP-UNESCO
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