Field of research: Institutions and Governance

Jared Finnegan

Jared Finnegan is Assistant Professor in Public Policy at UCL. Before joining UCL, he held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley and Princeton University and was also a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. He earned his PhD in Political Science in 2019 from LSE. Jared Finnegan studies climate change and energy politics across the high-income democracies, investigating the conditions under which governments are able to adopt stringent decarbonization policies, the drivers of business’ policy preferences, and how voters respond to climate-related reforms. More broadly, he is interested in the politics of long-term policymaking and governance.

(Last updated April 2025)

Dmytro Iarovyi

Since 2017, Dmytro has been a Program Manager at the Department for Public Policy and Governance of Kyiv School of Economics.

He holds a PhD in Political Psychology (2019), an MSc in International Administration and Global Governance (Gothenburg University, 2014), and an MA in International Information (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2013).

In 2016-2017, he worked as Head of the International Communications and Analytics Unit at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.

His sphere of academic and professional interests includes public administration reform, political psychology, social media, policy analysis.

Michael Alexeev

Michael Alexeev

Michael Alexeev holds the rank of Full Professor of Economics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. He graduated from Moscow University in 1975, majoring in Economics and Mathematics, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 1984.

Alexeev’s research has appeared in such leading general economics journals as Journal of Economic Theory and Review of Economics and Statistics, as well as in comparative and development economics journals and edited volumes. He has also published articles in public choice and in law and economics, and has recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, the Russian edition of which was published earlier this year.