Vira Nanivska is the new ICPS Director

ICPS announces a change in its director. The ICPS Supervisory Board met in March 2010 and gave extremely high marks to the work of Ms. Olga Shumylo, who has been the Centre’s director since 2008. It was decided to invite Ms. Shumylo to join the ICPS Supervisory Board.

The Centre’s new director will be Ms. Vira Nanivska, a renowned expert on public administration and the reform of political institutions, and a proponent of institutional desovietization. She is also is known as an active promoter of policy development, economic research and administrative reform throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Ms. Nanivska’s leadership role in this area has contributed to the establishment of full-fledged public policy development and advocacy. Ms. Nanivska has worked in this area since 1978, when she defended her Candidate’s thesis at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Academy of Science of the USSR, 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. Director of ICPS from 1997–2006, Ms. Vira Nanivska remains an active promoter of civil society and NGO development in Ukraine. Over 2006–2009, Ms. Nanivska was involved in reforming the Civil Service in Ukraine as president of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) under the Office of the President of Ukraine. As Chair of the board of the City Institute of L’viv from July 2009 to February 2010, she was in charge of developing the Unified Strategy for Sustainable Development in L’viv.