Institution: KSE
Yar Batoh
Yar Batoh is an Associate Research Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and consultant on international cooperation at NPC Ukrenergo since 2019. He has a B.A. in International Relations (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) and a certificate in political science (Granada University). From 2017-2019, he was an analyst at VoxUkraine. Yar focuses on international security, conflict resolution, Ukrainian and Russian foreign policy.
Latest publication: Yar Batoh. “What should Ukraine expect from the new European Parliament?” UA:Ukraine Analytica. Issue 3 (17), 2019.
(Last updated February 2020)
Yevhen Sapolovych
Yevhen Sapolovych is Research Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies since 2017. He has a B.A. in Political Science (from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). Sapolovych currently focuses on new quantitative tools for policy analysis (natural language processing, event data, machine learning).
(Last updated February 2020)
Daria Goriacheva
Daria Goriacheva is an Associate Research Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies since 2019 and an analyst at the Mohyla Strategic Agency since 2020. She has an M.A. in Political Science with a specialization in German and European Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, as well as in Politics from Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. Daria studied and taught International Relations at the Central European University and the University of Muhammadiyah Malang respectively. Her primary research interest lies in the intersection of cognitive linguistics and international relations with a specific focus on metaphors in the political discourse and cyberdiscourse.
(Last updated February 2020)
Ostap Kuchma
Public procurement analyst at Kyiv School of Economics. Received a Master’s Degree in Political Science and after serving several years as a political finance analyst and open data analyst, he switched to data analysis using Python.
(Last updated February 2020)
Olexiy Gribanovsky
Olexiy is a Full Stack Developer, infographic designer, and data analyst. He has worked with machine learning and Python and is currently employed as a data analyst at the Policy Research Department of the Kyiv School of Economics.
(Last updated February 2020)
Svitlana Taran
Svitlana Taran holds an MA in Economics from Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) /Kyiv School of Economics. She has more than 10 years of experience as an analyst and consultant on international trade, trade policy, non-tariff barriers to trade, European integration and WTO regulations.
In 2016-2018, Svitlana worked in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. In 2018-2019, she completed the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program in Economic Development at Boston University.
(Last update February 2021)
Olga Nikolaieva
Olga Nikolaieva is a Research Associate at KSE Institute, and a researcher at Foreign Trade Research Center, Trade+. She holds an MA in Economics from the Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) /Kyiv School of Economics. Her main research interests lie in the field of international trade, as well as health economics and labour economics.
Olga has participated in projects such as the Horizon 2020 funded “Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: Cumulative Disadvantage, Coping Strategies, Effective Policies and Transfer” (EXCEPT) and the feasibility study “Effectiveness of public health system in combating severe population health crisis in Ukraine”.
(Last updated October 2019)
Maryna Khorunzha
Maryna Khorunzha is Director of the Foreign Trade Research Center, Trade+. She coordinates the work of the Trade+ team, as well as sets forth and implements the development strategy of the Center, puts together the research agenda and conducts communications and stakeholder relations. She also supervises international trade related research and directly participates in the respective analysis.
As stipulated by the research, Maryna forms and delivers policy recommendations for the state institutions, responsible for foreign trade policy making.
Maryna holds a Master of Public Administration in Economic Policy (MPA) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE.
(Last updated October 2019)
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.
Artur Kovalchuk
Artur Kovalchuk is a Data Analyst at Kyiv School of Economics. He obtained an MA in Economic Analysis at the University of Houston in 2012.
His fields of specialization are public procurements, SME development, regional policy. Artur was involved in numerous projects supported by World Bank, USAID, Government of Ukraine etc.