Oleksiy Haran

OLEXIY HARAN is Professor of Comparative Politics at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (UKMA). In 1991-93, he was Dean and organizer of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the re-born Kyiv Mohyla Academy (founded in 1615 and closed under Russian empire in 1819). Since 2015, he has served as Research Director at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, a leading Ukrainian analytical and sociological think tank. He is the co-editor of Constructing a Political Nation: Changes in the Attitudes of Ukrainians during the War in the Donbas (2017) and several other books. . Also, he is a frequent commentator in Ukrainian and international media.
In 2021, US-Ukraine Foundation awarded Prof. Haran as one of “30 Stars of Ukraine”, representing the country on the world stage.