Transforming Ukraine after the Euromaidan revolution: Progress, challenges and prospects

Peter M. Wagner is the Head of the Support Group for Ukraine at the European Commission and Director in the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations. Prior to this, he was an adviser at the Commission Task Force on Greece (TFGR) (2011-15), Head of Unit in charge of the defence, aeronautic and maritime industries (2010-11), Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, where his responsibilities included general policy coordination, relations with Member States and the Council, and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework programme (2005-10). Prior to entering the Commission in 1999, he worked in Germany for a research institute, following several years as a journalist and an editor for a number of newspapers. He holds a Ph.D. in political science, history and psychology from Freiburg University.

Pavlo Sheremeta is the former Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine (February – September 2014). He has been an Independent Member of the Supervisory Board of Public Joint Stock Company Raiffeisen Bank Aval since 2015. Between 2015 and 2017 Sheremeta founded the School of Public Management of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Sheremeta has also been President (since 2012) and member of the Advisory Council of Kyiv School of Economics (2014- 2015); President and Senior Fellow of Malaysia Blue Strategy Institute (2008-2012); Founding Dean and Chief Executive Officer of Kiyv-Mohyla Business school (1999-2008); and MBA Program Director of International Institute of Management (1997-1998). He started his career in 1995 as a Project manager of Open Society Institute in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from Lviv State University (1993) and holds a MBA from Emory University, Atlanta, USA (1995).

Ryhor Nizhnikau is a Senior Research Fellow in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood and Russia programme at FIIA. He works on the Russian and EU’s policies towards Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus as well as domestic developments in these countries. His current research focus includes the study of the Ukraine’s reforms after the Euromaidan Revolution. He received his PhD from Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. His recent publications include EU Induced Institutional Change in Post-Soviet Space: Promoting Reforms in Moldova and Ukraine (Routledge, 2018).