New ICPS Director

The International Centre for Policy Studies has announced a change in its management team. Viktor Chumak has resigned from the position of ICPS Director. The Centre’s main expert on security and defense issues, Viktor Chumak will focus on developing and instituting a concept for reforming the security sector in Ukraine under the new ICPS Strategy. ICPS’s Deputy Director for Development Volodymyr Nikitin has been promoted to Director in his place.

Mr. Nikitin is a specialist in organizational aspects of development in administration, education and research. Over the last six years, he participated in the preparation and implementation of more than 30 projects in public policy, including joint projects with the Government of Ukraine. Mr. Nikitin is also the author of many public policy methodological materials.

Volodymyr Nikitin has considerable experience organizing seminars, business workshops, research projects, and courses in Ukraine, Russia, the Baltic States, and countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. With over 30 years’ involvement in academic research and analytical work in the human sciences, Mr. Nikitin has also participated in designing and launching educational institutions and think-tanks.

Mr. Nikitin is a PhD in Sociology with a post-graduate degree in architecture. Among the assets ICPS’s new Director brings with him are more than 120 scientific studies.

Having been appointed the Centre’s Deputy Director for Development in 2000, Volodymyr Nikitin was responsible for the Centre’s expansion, providing leadership on institutional changes and drafting proposals for new areas of activity and new projects.