Introducing Guest Lecturer Prof. Oleh Nivievskyi

In the winter term 2025-26, our second KIU guest lecturer, Prof. Oleh Nivievskyi from our partner university Kyiv School of Economics, will teach three courses focusing our semester topic; Infrastructural fragmentation, infrastructural resilience - Interdisciplinary perspectives on techno-politics and crisis. Prof. Nivievskyi is a economist and specialised in Agricultural Economics and Applied Statistics. He worked as an economic policy advisor with the World Bank Group’s Reforming Investment Climate project in Ukraine and contributed to projects of other international agencies, having more than 20 years of international experience in applied research in agri-food products and factor markets and value chains, as well as in agri-food and regulatory policy impact. Oleh contributed to several major reforms in Ukraine, including a comprehensive farmland market reform and opening of the farmland market in 2021. In 2020, he founded the Center for Food and Land Use Research at Kyiv School of Economics, where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Economics Studies. He is interested in political economy and performance of local governance in Ukraine, EU integration, conflicts’ impact and post-war rebuilding and recovery, as well as in transport services pricing and policy.