Vira Nanivska is a renowned expert on public administration and the reform of political institutions, and a proponent of institutional desovietization. As Director of ICPS from 1997 to 2006, Ms. Nanivska actively promoted the democratization of institutions and the modernization of Ukraine’s economy. Ms. Nanivska has worked in this area since 1978, when she defended her Candidate’s thesis at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies on the modernization process in Japan. As director of program development at the World Bank’s representative office in Ukraine from 1992 to 1997, Ms. Nanivska participated in the development of technical assistance programs for the Ukrainian Government. Over 2006–2009, Ms. Nanivska was involved in reforming the Civil Service in Ukraine as the President of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) under the Office of the President of Ukraine. In September 2009, Ms. Nanivska was appointed head of the City Institute in L’viv, a think-tank.
Since April 2010 Vira Nanivska is a Director of International Centre for Policy Studies.