Tymofiy Mylovanov

Tymofiy Mylovanov currently serves as the President of the Kyiv School of Economics and holds the position of Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Mylovanov earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) in 2004. He has an illustrious teaching record at premier European and American institutions, including the Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Tymofiy has published research on economic theory, including persuasion, communication, delegation, and informed principal in mechanism design in top-tier international academic journals such as Econometrica, American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies. His policy work ranges from implementing the land market reform in Ukraine to designing sanctions against Russia and assessing damages and recovery needs in Ukraine after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Tymofiy is an advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine. From 2016 to 2019, Tymofiy was the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine and from 2019-2020, the Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine.

In 2014, Tymofiy co-founded the VoxUkraine platform alongside other eminent economists, with the vision of elevating the economic discourse in Ukraine.

With his profound economic acumen, global academic affiliations, and deep-rooted connection to Ukraine, Dr. Mylovanov continues to play a pivotal role in the advancement of economics and evidence-based economic policy making in Ukraine and the region through the Kyiv School of Economics, which under his leadership has become a prominent regional think tank and university, transforming itself from a graduate program institution into a university with bachelor programs ranging from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences.