Education and Work Experience

• Since 01/2025: Kyiv School of Economics, Social Sciences Department, Vice-Chair for Science
• Since 09/2022: Kyiv School of Economics, Social Sciences Department, Associate Professor
• 05/2021 - 12/2021: Freie Universität Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Anti-corruption and Local Governance in Ukraine
• 04/2021 - 10/2021: University of East Anglia (UEA) and USAID in Ukraine programme “New Justice”, Training Instructor and Research Coordinator for a study on integrity
  Since 2018: Open Government and Anti-Corruption, International expert for Public Integrity
• Since 2018: Kyiv School of Economics, Department for Social Sciences and Humanities, Lecturer and Trainer in Social Science Research Methods
• Since 2018: Institute for European Politics (IIEP-Berlin), Lecturer and Trainer in Social Science Research Methods
• 2017 - 2021: Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies, PhD in Political Science (defended on 28 April 2021 and graded magna cum laude), https://t.ly/MBnXx
• 09/2014 - 08/2016: University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Master in International Administration and Global Governance
• 09/2007 - 01/2009: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Master International Information (Specialization Public Relations)
• 09/2003 - 07/2007: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Bachelor International Relations

Academic Appointments, Scientific Activities & Outreach

• 09/2024 – 08/2027: EU Horizon-funded Twinning project "Building Resilient Innovations in Democracy, Governance and Excellence (BRIDGE)" with University of Tartu, Technical University of Berlin and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Coordinating principal investigator
• 10/2023 - 01/2025: Project "Local Democracy and Resilience in Ukraine: Learning from Communities’ Crisis Response in War" (Ukraine/Sweden) with the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and an Associations of Ukrainian ATCs, funded by the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD), Principal investigator
• 08/2022 - 11/2022: Project "Assessment of resilience practices, challenges and needs of Ukrainian municipalities during the war" (Ukraine) commissioned by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Researcher
• 2022 - 2023: Project "Corruption Risk Assessment in Education and Humanitarian Aid Provision" with the National Agency on Corruption Prevention of Ukraine, Researcher and Co-Author
• 2021: Project "Baseline Assessment of Open Local Government Practices" (Ukraine), Researcher
• 2020 - 2021: Collaborative Research "Opening the black box of political will: Local public authorities and anticorruption efforts" (Ukraine) with Quality of Government Institute (University of Gothenburg) and Kyiv School of Economics, funded by the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD), Researcher
• 2018 - 2021: Project Commissioned by the International Institute for Education Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) "Open Government in Education" (Globally and Ukraine), Researcher
• 01/2018 - 02/2018: "Design, theories and methods of corruption research" course, Certificate Programme "Interdisciplinary anti-corruption studies” at the National Kyiv-Mohyla University (Ukraine). Course co-author and co-lecturer
• 10/2016 - 07/2017: Conference "Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic elites in Ukraine from Historical and Comparative Perspective" at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI). Project by interdisciplinary network ‘Ukraine: postsowjetische Gesellschaft im Wandel’. Conference co-organiser and network partner
• 12/2016: Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Annual Conference (Stockholm). Conference presenter. Topic: "Citizens and state in the conditions of war: defence volunteer movement in Ukraine"
• 10/2016 - 02/2017: Insights from practitioners: How to initiate and develop working relationships with Partners, Donors and Stakeholders and Improve Cooperation between Ukrainian and EU Think Tanks. Report by the Ukrainian Think Tank Liaison Office in Brussels, Co-author
• 08/2015 - 11/2015: Programme Coordination Section at United Nations Volunteers. Intern

Fellowships, Stipends and Awards

• 09/2024 - 08/2027: Horizon Europe Twinning grant, "Building Resilient Innovations in Democracy, Governance and Excellence (BRIDGE)" program with University of Tartu, Technical University of Berlin and Erasmus University Rotterdam
• 10/2023 - 06/2024: Research grant by Swedish International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD), "Local Democracy and Resilience in Ukraine: Learning from Communities’ Crisis Response in War" program
• 03/2023: Conference grant by Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Sweden), workshop “Governance for Societal Resilience in the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe” at Södertörn University (Stockholm)
• 07/2020 - 05/2022: Research grant by Swedish International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD), "Opening the black box of political will: Local public authorities and anticorruption efforts in Ukraine" with University of Gothenburg, KSE & Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
• 01/2017 – 12/2017: Project grant by EVZ (Memory, Responsibility, Future Fund), German-Ukrainian Youth Exchange Programme on anti-corruption with Kulturwissenschftliches Institut Essen and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
• 09/2017 - 08/2020: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Graduate School Scholarship Program 2017 - Berlin School of Transnational Studies
• 08/2015 - 11/2015: Erasmus Mobility Grant for Internship at the United Nations Volunteers
• 04/2015 - 07/2015: Adlerbertska Foundation Scholarship for excellent academic performance and hospitality grant (Sweden)
• 2014 - 2016: University of Gothenburg Study Scholarship (fee-waiver)

• Non-Democratic Regimes (Limited Access Orders)

• Sub-National Politics and Political Access

• Civil Society and State Relations, Governance with Civil Society

• Open Government

Academic peer-reviewed articles and working papers

• Keudel, O., & and Huss, O. (24 March 2025). Polycentric crisis response and societal resilience: How local communities address internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion. Post-Soviet Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2480529.
• Keudel, O., & Huss, O. (2023). Polycentric governance in practice: The case of Ukraine’s decentralised Crisis response during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 1(aop), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1332/25156918Y2023D000000002.
• Keudel, O., Grimes, M., & Huss, O. (2023). Political Will for Anti-Corruption Reform. Communicative pathways to collective action in Ukraine. QOG Working Papers, 3. https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/75380/2023_3_Keudel_Grimes_Huss.pdf?sequence=3.

Books and chapters

• Keudel, O., Grimes, M. and Huss, O. (2025) Political Will for Anti-Corruption Reform: Communicative pathways to collective action in Ukraine. In Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice. Eds: R. Bratu and J. Pozsgai-Alvarez. Routledge.
• Keudel, O. (2023) Transforming Patronal Democracy Bottom-Up: Two Logics of Local Governance in Ukraine. In Magyar, B. and Madlovics, B. (eds) The Russian-Ukrainian War in Patronal Perspective: Structural Consequences in the Ukrainian Regime. Budapest: CEU Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/jj.3985461.17?seq=1.
• Keudel, O. (2022) How patronal networks shape opportunities for local citizen participation in a hybrid regime. A comparative analysis of five cities in Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag / New York: Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/how-patronal-networks-shape-opportunities-for-local-citizen-participation-in-a-hybrid-regime/9783838216713.

Policy publications

• Keudel, O., Hatsko, V., Darkovich, A., & Huss, O. (2024). Local Democracy and Resilience in Ukraine: Learning from Communities’ Crisis Response in War (Research Report No. 33). Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy. https://icld.se/en/publications/local-democracy-and-resilience-in-ukraine-learning-from-communities-crisis-response-in-war/.
• Keudel, O. (2024). The Importance of Collaborative Crisis Governance. Evidence from Ukrainian Municipalities. In 2024 State of the Region Report: A World Order in Transformation? A Comparative Study of Consequences of the War and Reactions to these Changes in the Region (pp. 253–260). Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, CBEES, Södertörn University. https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1846696/FULLTEXT01.pdf.
• Keudel, O., & Huss, O. (2023). Ukraine’s Emergent Collaborative Democracy and How the EU Can Support It: Learning from the Local Level of Governance. In Future of EU–Ukraine Relations. https://liberalforum.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Designed-in-Brussels-Made-in-Ukraine_Future-of-EU-Ukraine-relations.pdf.
• Keudel, O., & Huss, O. (2023). National Security in Local Hands? How Local Authorities Contribute to Ukraine’s Resilience. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo, 825. https://www.ponarseurasia.org/national-security-in-local-hands-how-local-authorities-contribute-to-ukraines-resilience/.
• Keudel, O., Grimes, M., & Huss, O. (2023). The Necessity of Talking the Talk: The Functions of Communication for Anti-Corruption Political Will and Policy Development in Ukrainian Local Government. ICLD Policy Briefs No. 29. https://icld.se/wp-content/uploads/media/ICLD_Policy-Brief_29-web.pdf.
• Keudel, O., & Huss, O. (2023). Der Beitrag lokaler Selbstverwaltungsbehörden zur demokratischen Resilienz der Ukraine. Ukraine-Analysen, 287, 11–17. https://doi.org/10.31205/UA.287.02.
• Huss, O., & Keudel, O. (2023). Survey on the needs and priorities of local authorities in Ukraine: The provision of services in times of war and post-war recovery. Council of Europe. https://rm.coe.int/1680a9f1fe.
• Huss, O., & Keudel, O. (2023). Baseline survey on Open Government at local level in Ukraine: Mapping initiatives and assessing needs. Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. https://rm.coe.int/open-government-survey-eng/1680a97942.

Others

• Kryshtapovych, O. 2016, 'State and Civil Society Relations in the Conditions of Military Crises: The case of defence volunteer movement in Ukraine'. Master Thesis, University of Gothenburg. Available at: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/44848/1/gupea_2077_44848_1.pdf.
• Prystayko, O. & Kryshtapovych, O. 2017, 'Insights from practitioners: How to initiate and develop working relationships with Partners, Donors and Stakeholders and Improve Cooperation between Ukrainian and EU Think Tanks', Ukrainian Think Tank Liaison Office in Brussels. Available at: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5b13b65c8b280f47f74d5a42d/files/7d8ee60a-119e-4a03-9b9e-bddbcb8a1a12/Ukraine_KAS_Brochure.pdf.