Director of Afghanistan Research Initiative; Senior Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development.
Dr. Bohdan Krawchenko is an Advisor to the Rector of the University of Central Asia, a Senior Research Fellow, and the Director of the Afghanistan Research Initiative at the Graduate School of Development.
Until 1991, he was a professor of interdisciplinary studies and Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. In 1991, he moved to Ukraine to become the Director of Policy Studies at the Council of Advisors to the Parliament of Ukraine. In 1992, he founded and became the Director of the Institute of Public Administration and Local Government under the Cabinet of Ministers. In 1995, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of North London, and in 2000, he was awarded an Order of Merit by the President of Ukraine.
Dr. Krawchenko has been a professor at Harvard University's Department of Government and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland. He is also a member of the editorial board of Public Management.
He joined the University of Central Asia in October 2004, where he served as the Dean of the Graduate School of Development until August 2022. He also served as UCA’s Director-General from 2007 to 2014.
