Dr. Roman Sheremeta is a Founding Rector and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of American University Kyiv. He received Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University. Dr. Sheremeta received many research and teaching awards, including the 2018 Smith Ascending Scholar Prize, given to a “budding genius” in social science, Emerging Impact Awards in 2015 and 2019 from the Weatherhead School of Management, as well as multiple grants, including the National Science Foundation and the Max Planck Institute grants. He was listed as a Top Economic Thinker of Ukrainian descent by Forbes in 2015, a top-rated young economist in the world according to the IDEAS ranking in 2018, and recognized as the Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets and Quants in 2019.

Dr. Sheremeta is an author of more than 70 articles, published in leading scholarly journals in economics, business, psychology, and political science. Top-tier media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, NBC News, NPR, and Science Daily, have featured his research, which focuses on experimental economics and game theory with applications to behavioral economics, conflict resolution, industrial organization, labor, and public economics. He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Games, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Dr. Shangraw is the Founding President and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of American University Kyiv. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He has taught at Syracuse University, George Washington University, and Arizona State University. Shangraw is a member of Sigma Xi, the international honor society of science and engineering. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the McCain Institute for International Leadership. He currently serves as President of Cintana Education.

Dr. Shangraw is an author of more than 20 refereed publications and over 50 conference papers, invited presentations, and published manuscripts. His research is in policy decision making and decision risk analysis. He has applied much of this research to the design and deployment of large-scale decision support systems and scenario planning systems for the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. At Arizona State University, Shangraw collaborated with researchers examining the value of visualization, simulation, and collaborative decision-making techniques in complex policy decision environments. He has been the principal investigator on over US$200 million in research grants and contract research projects.

Dr. Vernon Smith is a Professor of Economics and Law at the Economic Scientific Institute at Chapman University (USA). He received Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Dr. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics. He is one of the top-rated economists in the world according to the IDEAS ranking. Dr. Smith is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association, Econometric Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Smith is an author of more than 350 articles and books on capital theory, finance, natural resource economics and experimental economics. He served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Science, Economic Theory, Economic Design, Games and Economic Behavior. He is past president of the Public Choice Society, the Economic Science Association, the Western Economic Association, and the Association for Private Enterprise Education.

Dr. Rens Wilderom is an Assistant Professor at American University Kyiv. He is currently finalizing his Ph.D. dissertation “Genres, webs of fields, and institutional change: The development of dance in the US, UK, and the Netherlands, 1985-2005” at the Sociology Department of the University of Amsterdam. Previously, he completed his master in Cultural Sociology (Cum Laude, University of Amsterdam) with a thesis titled “The culinary order: sustainable consumer identities and new organizational forms on the alternative market for foods.” In 2017, he stayed for a five month period as a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the Sociology Department of the University of Toronto.

Dr. Wilderom’s research projects are characterized by rather different substantive domains (dance vs sustainable food), yet they also share a connection due to their focus on how the interplay between change-seeking movements and established actors shapes processes of innovation. His research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods and draws, predominantly, on the literature from cultural sociology and organization studies. He also blogs about Python programming on his personal website.

Steven Mark Kahan has successfully helped grow seven startup companies from early stage to going public or being sold, resulting in more than $4.5 billion in shareholder value.

Steven inspires teams and their organizations to take on the impossible and succeed. He is best known for his ability to plan marketing strategies and execute them so that companies accelerate revenue, grow market share, and consistently deliver superior returns for shareholders. He is the author of Amazon bestselling book, Be a Startup Superstar. His next book to be released in December 2022 is called High Velocity Digital Marketing: Silicon Valley Secrets to Create Breakthrough Revenue in Record Time. Steven and his wife reside in Texas and have been happy together for 30+ years.

Mr. Mark Voyger is the Director of the Master’s Program in Global Management and Associate Professor at American University Kyiv. Mr. Voyger holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University with a focus on Russia-NATO relations, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and he has read for a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University, UK. Mr. Voyger is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Arabic, Turkish, French, Spanish and Italian.

Mr. Mark Voyger is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Washington, D.C.. In the Spring of 2021 he taught International Security and Politics at the US Army College, Carlisle, PA. Previously he was the Vice President for Strategic Studies and Multi-National Programs with TheTacNet.com online training company, Virginia, US. In 2019 – 2020, he was a Senior Scholar at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. In 2018 – 2019 he taught Russian and Eastern European politics and security as the Senior Lecturer at the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia. Prior to his academic career, in the period 2013 – 2018, he served as the Special Advisor for Russian and Eurasian Affairs to the Commanding General of US Army Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany, and as the Cultural Advisor and Senior Russia Expert at NATO’s Allied Land Command in Izmir, Turkey. In the period 2009 – 2013 he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as an advisor and social scientist with the US Army. He also worked for Senator Mitt Romney's Presidential campaigns as a member of the Executive Department (2007 – 2008) and the Russia Advisory Group (2011 – 2012).

Mr. Voyger’s areas of academic and professional expertise include Eastern European, Balkan and Middle Eastern politics and security issues, Russian foreign and security policy, Russian military strategies and doctrine, hybrid warfare, as well as trans-national Islamist ideologies and movements. He has published articles on the above topics at journals in Ukraine, the Baltics States, Poland and elsewhere, and he gives regular TV interviews and talks across thinktanks, universities, and military commands in the United States and Europe. Mr. Voyger is the editor of a book on NATO, Russia and the Baltic States published by the Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia, in 2019.

Dr. Hanna Shvindina is an Associate Professor at American University Kyiv. She received Ph.D. in Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Protection at Sumy State University (2006), and Doctor of Science in Economics and Management at the Enterprises at Sumy State University (2019). Dr. Shvindina was awarded several individual scholarships, including Erasmus Mundus scholarships (BACKIS, EMINENCE), Fulbright Scholarship, and many other grants. She was a Post-Doc researcher at the University of Montpellier (France) and Purdue University (USA). In 2021 she won the funding for the project Jean Monnet (Team Leader). She is a pioneer of COIL Projects in Ukraine, started in 2019 in cooperation with University Nebraska-Lincoln, continued with Washington State University (USA).

Dr. Shvindina is an author of more than 100 articles. Her scientific interests include coopetition, strategies and innovations, change management, organizational development, civic education, and leadership. She is a scientific committee member at the European Marketing and Management Association, a member of CENA community, Researchers' Excellence Network (RENET), Ukrainian Association for Management Development and Business Education. Dr. Shvindina is a member of editorial boards of scientific journals in Ukraine, Poland, and Switzerland, invited reviewer for the international conferences in Poland, Germany, Ukraine, and the USA. She is a CEO at NGO “Lifelong Learning Centre”, where she provides courses on leadership and communications, organizes the program on empowerment for the local community, and offers community services.

Dr. Yuriy Bots is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Business and Leadership Department at William Jewell College. He received Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University and has had prior industry experience working as an economist. Dr. Bots received multiple awards for his contributions to teaching and learning. In recognition of his contributions to William Jewell College he has been twice appointed as the endowed chair designated as the John W. Boatwright Professor of Economics. Dr. Bots has also performed consulting work and received multiple certifications in leadership studies.

Dr. Bots’ research focuses on international trade, productivity in the service sector, and stock market reaction to mergers and acquisitions. His most recent work includes cross-disciplinary projects that explore leadership issues in non-profit organizations and the impact of developing metacognitive skills on reducing cognitive errors and emotional biases.

Dr. Artem Kliuchnikov received his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University. Dr. Kliuchnikov has received number of grants and led research projects focusing on cross-cultural aspects of leadership. He is a strategy consultant and worked with number of businesses and foundations. Dr. Kliuchnikov has served as a visiting professor to Indiana Institute of Technology at their Global Leadership Ph.D. program. He partnered with Tiffin University to develop two courses for their freshly minted Ph.D. program in Leadership. Currently he serves as a Visiting Professor to International Leadership University in Nairobi, Kenya where he develops and teaches different courses at their MA in Leadership program.

Dr. Kliuchnikov’s research interests include cross-cultural leadership, artificial intelligence in leadership, organizational culture, followership and ethics in leadership. His publications to date explore cross-cultural applicability of leadership theories. Dr. Kliuchnikov is a current member of International Leadership Association (ILA). He also is a co-founder and a director of Analytical Center for Leadership Research and Development (ACLRD), a think tank located in Kyiv. Through ACLRD Dr. Kliuchnikov continues to research leadership practices in Eastern Europe, to develop and to teach leadership training seminars.

Dr. Oleksandr Romanko is an Adjunct Professor and a Founding Director of Master of Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence program at American University Kyiv. Dr. Romanko works as Lead Research Scientist in Financial Risk Quantitative Research at SS&C Technologies Canada, he is also an Adjunct Professor at University of Toronto, Ukrainian Catholic University and Kyiv School of Economics. Dr. Romanko received Ph.D. in Computer Science from McMaster University. Previously, he worked as a Senior Research Analyst and Manager of Quantitative Research at Watson Financial Services division of IBM. Dr. Romanko received several industrial awards including IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2014 and Eminence and Excellence IBM Award to Quantitative Research Group of IBM Risk Analytics in 2012. He also received a number of academic awards from INFORMS, Canadian Operational Research Society and Mitacs.

Dr. Romanko is an author of more than 20 articles and book chapters in financial risk management, machine learning, analytics and operations research. His research focuses on optimization algorithms, financial portfolio optimization, machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to finance and risk management. To popularize data science and analytics as a new career option in Ukraine, starting from 2013 Dr. Romanko co-organized and taught more than ten one- and two-day courses in Data Science, Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence with more than 5000 attendees. Dr. Romanko is a co-founder of Canada’s Mitacs Research Internship Program for Ukraine, that allowed more than 200 Ukrainian students to participate in research internship projects at Canadian universities. Dr. Romanko served as a Senior Policy Advisor to Anna Novosad, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine in 2019-2020. He is also a member of the board of directors of Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada.

Dr. Viktor Levandovskyy is a Visiting Professor of American University Kyiv. After graduating from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Ukraine and from the University of Kaiserslautern, he received Ph.D. in Mathematics (with magna cum laude) from Technical University of Kaiserslautern and obtained Habilitation from RWTH Aachen, both in Germany. Dr. Levandovskyy received research awards, including the 2004 Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering for Computer Algebra, awarded to the development team of Computer Algebra System “Singular”, as well as multiple grants, including those funded by the German DFG, DAAD and an American CRDF.

Dr. Levandovskyy is an author of more than 55 articles, published in leading scholarly journals in computer science, computer algebra and pure and applied mathematics. With collaborators, he has developed two open-source specialized high-performant software projects, having unique properties. He has been keynote or invited speaker to a number of universities and conferences, among them ACA (Applications of Computer Algebra) and ISSAC (International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation), as well as lecturing at international summer schools (Austria, the Netherlands, Spain etc.). He serves on the editorial boards of the Maple Transactions Journal as well as of prestigious conferences, such as CASC (Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing) and ISSAC. He has been twice a special issue editor of the Journal of Symbolic Computation. Dr. Levandovskyy has been working in Kaiserslautern, Aachen and Kassel (Germany), and in Austrian Linz.

Oleh Derevianko is a Co-founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Vision Officer of ISSP – Information Systems Security Partners, an international cybersecurity company founded in Ukraine in 2008 and currently operating globally. Before founding ISSP, Oleh worked as CEO and Board Member in Ukrainian and international companies. He is specialized in new venture building and change management, and is passionate about lifelong learning, leadership, emotional intelligence, and creativity.

In 2015-2016, Oleh Derevianko served as a Deputy Minister and Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Oleh is an internationally recognized expert and opinion leader in cybersecurity strategy. He has presented in the U.S. at MIT, Stanford, Texas A&M, The Aspen Institute, and The Atlantic Council and has appeared in the WIRED magazine, BBC, Politico, other global media, the Amazon best-selling book ‘Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers’ (2019) by Andy Greenberg, and in Nicole Perlroth’s book ‘This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyber-Weapons Arms Race’ (2021), a NYT best seller and winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2021.

Dr. Sergiy Tytenko is an Associate Professor at American University Kyiv. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science at Pukhov Institute for Modeling in Energy Engineering National Academy of Science of Ukraine in 2011. Dr. Tytenko has deep industrial experience in software engineering. His professional activity dedicated to mobile applications development, full cycle of web development, including server-side architecture and frontend engineering as well as UI/UX expertise. He is team lead in EMPAT software development company.

Dr. Tytenko is an author of more than 50 articles. His research interests are ontology-oriented information and learning web portals, innovative interfaces and interactive concept maps for information systems and mobile applications, human–computer information retrieval, web development and software architecture. He is an author of Semantic Portal innovative e-learning project.

Dr. Viktor Putrenko is a Full Professor of American University Kyiv. He received Ph.D. from the National Academy of Science in 2008. He received Doctor of Engineering Sciences in System Analysis from National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”. Dr. Putrenko led many research projects in the field of modeling sustainable development and development of information systems to support management decisions based on spatial data. Нe is a developer and architect of information systems at the level of municipalities, communities, and regions. Dr. Putrenko is an expert consultant for many international projects and a member of international organizations such as IEEE, ICA, and GSDI.

Dr. Viktor Putrenko is an author of more than 150 articles and books on information systems, data mining, databases, modeling in environmental management and economics. His research interests are in the field of interdisciplinary research for the analysis of sustainable development using modern data analysis and information technology. Нe has been working on the implementation of online education systems since 2013.

Dr. Habil. Alexandra Antoniouk is the Director of MS Program in Software Engineering and a Visiting Professor of American University Kyiv. She received Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1993 and Habilitated there in 2016. Dr. Antoniouk is a Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, received different research and social activity awards, including the 2015 AvH award «Innovation Networking Initiative», National Academy of Science of Ukraine Honors "For Professional Achievements" (2020), Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "For services to the Ukrainian people" (2021).

Dr. Antoniouk is an author of more than 40 articles, published in leading scholarly journals in mathematics and its applications. She is a specialist in the field of differential equations in partial derivatives of the finite and infinite number of variables. Its main activities concern the evolutionary behavior of systems describing models of statistical mechanics with an infinite number of interacting particles, various types of nonlinear differential equations of a finite number of variables, including diffusion equations on noncompact Riemannian manifolds and porous medium equations, and dynamical systems stochastic flows on manifolds and analysis of discrete time series. She was a leader of the Ukrainian part of several EU projects in particular FP-7 Marie Curie Actions IRES “EU-Ukrainian Mathematicians for Life Sciences” (2012-2016), Horizon-2020 “Approximation Methods for Molecular Modelling and Diagnosis Tools” (2016-2019) and was a head organizer of different international multi-disciplinary conferences among them: "Mathematics for Life Sciences" (2012-2017), KAU Data Science School (2018-2021).

Dr. Nataliia Viatkina is a Visiting Professor at American University Kyiv. She received Ph.D. in Logic from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. She is a senior scientific researcher with the Hryhory Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Viatkina served as a Coordinator of Research Programs at the NGO Center of Social Prognosing and as a Program Coordinator at the American Councils for Collaboration in Education and Language Studies (ACCELS). She also served as the Executive Director of the Transformation of Humanities in Ukraine Program at the International Renaissance Foundation. In 2015-2016, Dr. Viatkina was the director of the Institute of Education Content Modernization, a state scientific institution with the Ministry of Education of Ukraine where she contributed to the reform of the Ukrainian education system.

Dr. Viatkina is a philosopher and scholar, studying philosophical problems in the field of formal logic, analytical philosophy, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind and language. She developed and implemented an array of education programs and projects. Dr. Viatkina has authored more than 50 academic and popular publications, among them chapters in 16 collective monographs and one individual monograph 'Sense and Ontology in Logic'. Dr. Viatkina provides individual and group consultancy in Project Writing, Scientific Research Writing, Project Based Learning, Decision Making, and Critical Thinking in Education and Business. She is the Board Member of the OlafPine Foundation and Ukraine – France Association, and a moderator of the Aspen-Institute, Kyiv.

Dr. Roman Mykhailyshyn is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA). Also, he is an Associate Professor of Automation Technological Processes and Manufacturing at Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University (Ukraine). He received Ph.D. in Engineering from Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University. Dr. Mykhailyshyn was awarded the Scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists in 2020-2022. He was awarded the Ternopil City Council in the nomination "Young scientists and researchers" in 2020 and the Ternopil Regional State Administration and Ternopil Regional Council in 2018. Dr. Mykhailyshyn is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Dr. Mykhailyshyn is an author of more than 30 articles, published in leading scholarly journals in robotics, computing, engineering, and manufacturing. His research focuses on robotics, motion planning and optimization, modeling of physical systems, additive manufacturing, minimization of energy costs for transport operations by industrial robots, and design of gripping devices for industrial robots. He served on the reviewer board of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, IEEE Access, Machines, Robotics, Applied Sciences, International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering.