LARGIS II Experts
 

Dr Adrian Campbell (Britain)
 
Adrian Campbell is an expert in local government management and organisation with 15 years' experience of consultancy projects in transitional countries, and with experience in Ukraine since 1991. In recent years he has been closely involved in regional and municipal legislative reform in the Russian Federation and Ukraine as an expert of the Council of Europe. Since 1994 he has acted as director or contract director for a number of large DFID projects, among the most relevant being are LARGIS (1999-2003), LDP (2003-)and RACE (2000-3), as well as a number of smaller projects, several of which involved training and study tours for officials responsible for regional and local development. He has considerable experience of training public service practitioners from many countries and is currently Co-ordinator of Public Service MBA programmes at Birmingham's School of Public Policy. He is a fluent Russian speaker.
 

Duncan Leitch (Britain)
 
Duncan Leitch has worked in Ukraine for 5 years, at both national and regional levels. He was Project Director of LARGIS Ukraine from 2000-2002, which was a partner to the Cabinet of Ministers in Budget Reform, Territorial Administrative Re-organisation and Regional Development Policy. He is now Lead Expert on Institutional Development with DfID programmes in Lviv and Donbass. Before working in Ukraine, Duncan Leitch had 7 years experience as an adviser to local and regional government in the Russian Federation, and 15 years as a senior manager in British local government. Duncan Leitch is a Russian speaker.
 

Professor Grzegorz Gorzelak (Poland)
 
Grzegorz Gorzelak is Professor of economics, specializing in regional and local development and policy, and Director of the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies at Warsaw University. He is President of the Polish Section of the Regional Studies Association. Professor Gorzelak worked as advisor to the Polish government during the local government reform in 1990, as manager of PHARE program for local government (1991), and as consultant to several local and regional authorities on development strategies, in Poland and in Ukraine. He is a member of several advisory councils of the Polish government, and of two committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Gorzelak has coordinated several Polish and international research programs on regional development, regional policy and post-socialist transition.
 

Professor Kenneth Davey (Britain)
 
Kenneth Davey is Professor at the School of Public Policy in the University of Birmingham. He is one of the leading specialists in Europe on intergovernmental financial relations and the financing of local government, and works as an expert consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, the European Union and DfID. From 1991 to 2003 Kenneth Davey was leader of the British technical assistance programme to local government reform in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. From 2000 to 2002 he was the senior consultant on budget reform in Ukraine, as part of the LARGIS project, and contributed to the design of the revised State Budget Code. Professor Davey is Chairman of the Local Government Reform Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute.
 

Dr Pawel Swianiewicz (Poland)
 
Dr Swianiwicz is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies in the University of Warsaw. He is a highly respected international expert in the fields of territorial administrative reform and local government finance and worked in the LARGIS Ukraine project 2000-2002 as an expert on budget reform. Dr Swianiewicz is currently advising on budget management at oblast and local levels in Lviv and Donbass. He has also worked extensively in Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia and other eastern European countries. From 1995-2001 he was Project Manager of the British Know How Fund in Poland.
 

Zbigniew Jedrzejewski (Poland)
  Zbigniew Jedrzejewski is an expert in the area of municipal project development and effective municipal service delivery, operating in the municipal sector in CEE transitional countries for 15 years. He has dealt with effective municipal project preparation using different types of analyses including social, economic, technical, environmental and financial analyses to prioritize the municipal capital investments both in terms of economic rationale and investment planning. He has been focusing on indicating financial viability in the case of municipal projects with direct cost recovery. Mr. Jedrzejewski provided technical assistance under many EU, USAID and World Bank funded projects both in Poland and other countries such as Local Environmental Management Project (LEM, Poland), Environmental Training Project (ETP, Poland), Local Government Partnership Program (LGPP, Poland), Local Government Initiative (LGI, Bulgaria), Local Government Assistance Program (LGAP Romania), Ecolinks Croatia, SEVSO II Project (Phare, Poland), Rural Development Project (World Bank Poland), Municipal Development Loan Fund Project (World Bank, Ukraine), EMAS Project (Phare, Poland), Action Donbass Project (DFID, Ukraine), Water Sanitation Project (World Bank, India). Under LARGIS II Project he provided technical assistance to the Government of Ukraine in the area of developing procedures that included the guidelines for preparation, evaluation and distribution of state capital investment grants meeting the accepted standards in the EU.
 

Jacek Kawala (Poland)
  Jacek Kawala has been the municipal infrastructure project planning and implementation expert working in the area of municipal project feasibility study development including the project financial and economic analyses for the recent 8 years. He has worked on municipal projects in the CEE countries in transition including Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Ukraine. He was involved in providing technical assistance to the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance in the process of establishing the Ukrainian Municipal Development Fund aimed at financing municipal infrastructure projects to be financed by the World Bank for which he developed the guidelines which included specific values for evaluation criteria like fiscal management of borrower, ability of borrower to service debt in the amount and terms requested, analysis of financial-budgetary and economic indicators of municipalities, financial viability in the case of investments with direct cost recovery, cost-benefit, technical feasibility and suitability. Under LARGIS II Project Jacek Kawala provided technical assistance to build the capacity of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine in the area of development of municipal project granting procedures by means of adapting standard European Union practice in the allocation of state capital grants to the particular needs of Ukraine. He has been an author of many publications on effective municipal project planning, preparation, implementation and monitoring.

 

Professor Gerard Marcou (France)
 
Gerard Marcou is Professor of Public Law at the Sorbonne University, France. He is one of Europe's leading authorities on local and regional government. He works for the Council of Europe as the leading adviser to the Presidential Administration in Russia on issues of federalisation and local government reform and worked in another Council of Europe programme on local government finance in Ukraine from 2001-2004. He has also worked on public administration reform in central and eastern Europe for the OECD, European Union and United Nations. In the LARGIS Ukraine programme Gerard Marcou advised the Ministry of Economy on the introduction of contracts for regional development.

 

Dr Krzysztof Herbst (Poland)
 
Dr Herbst has more than thirty years of experience within the field of regional and local development and of development planning. He is a member of several commissions on urban and regional planning. He has expertise in the fields of regional development agencies, municipal services restructuring, management and service contracting to the Non-Profit, private sector and local SME's. He has animated several initiatives targeted at underdeveloped regions, programs, cooperation between different actors, conferences and publications. He has served as consultant and intermediary for emerging local and regional development agencies. Krzysztof Herbst has recently been involved in a major project in Russia, Serbia and Ukraine in which he was responsible for development strategies and support for development agencies. At present he is the DfID Lviv Development Project Director. Dr Herbst is a fluent Russian Speaker.
 

Tetyana Korneyeva (Ukraine), Project Coordinator
 

Tetyana Korneyeva has graduated from Kyiv National Economic University on specialties "Management of Government Finances" and "Legal Regulation of Economy". During 2001-2002 she had practice and internship at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. For 3 years Tetyana Korneyeva has been engaged in international projects implementation, including the work as an expert-analyst on economic issues in All-Ukrainian Foundation "Information Society of Ukraine" and a research associate/project coordinator at the Institute for Regional and Euro-Integration Studies "EuroRegio Ukraine". Tetyana Korneyeva is also coordinator of SuFTAR Project "Sustainable Financing of Territorial Administrative Reform" (DFID) and she was assistant to project manager of "Regional Governance and Development" Project (CIDA). She is fluent in English and German.

 

 

Ihor Sanzharovskyi (Ukraine)
  Ihor Sanzharovskyi is an expert for the "Regional Contract" component of the LARGIS II Project. He was a project coordinator from October 2005 till January 2006. He is a qualified independent expert in local and regional governance and development, public administration and civil society strengthening. Ihor Sanzharovskyi has considerable experience (over 10 years) with non-governmental, public and private sector institutions. He has excellent analytical and research skills combined with good writing skills, strong planning and management skills applied within national and international non-governmental and private organizations. Mr. Sanzharovskyi provided policy advice to governmental organizations and NGOs. He provided successful communication with central, regional, and local government authorities, civil society organizations. Mr. Sanzharovskyi is experienced University lecturer and was elected as city council member. He holds MA in Public Administration.

 

Serhiy Maksymenko (Ukraine)
  Serhiy Maksymenko is an expert on regional development, with a broad understanding of regional policy and community development issues, especially as related to institutional tools for community economic development and advantages of cross-sectoral cooperation. He is a Director of the Institute for Regional and Euro-Integration Studies "EuroRegio Ukraine". He is a senior expert in the "Regional Development Agencies" component of the LARGIS II Project. Over the past 6 years he has been leader of several projects in this area (Project on Community and Regional Development of Ukraine (PCaRD), National Association of Regional Development Agencies (NARDA) Support Network Project). Mr. Maksymenko has the experience of providing strategic and policy advice to Ukrainian government (including on National Program of Ukraine on EU Integration, Concept of State Regional Policy of Ukraine etc.).

 

Dr Myroslava Lendel (Ukraine)
  Myroslava Lendel is an expert on regional development. She has PhD in History and is an associate professor of the Political Science Department (Uzhgorod National University). She is also working as a Director of the Center of Euroregional Studies in Uzhgorod National University. She is an expert for the "Regional Development Agencies" component of the LARGIS II Project. Myroslava Lendel has an experience in international projects: she was an expert in the Project on Community and Regional Development in Ukraine (PcaRD), EastWest Institute, Kyiv Center, as well as she took part in preparing National Program of Ukrainian integration to the European Union and was the member of the working group on the Ukrainian Regional Development Strategy elaboration (under the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine). During 2002 - 2005 Myroslava Lendel was a manager of the TACIC CBC SPF Project "Carpathia - 2003-2011" - Introduction of the strategic approach to the cross-border cooperation development in Carpathian region". Myroslava Lendel was an expert of the LARGIS Project "Local and Regional Government Institutional Strengthening" (DFID). Her scientific interests are local democracy, local/regional development, and cross-border cooperation.

 

Viktor Tkachenko (Ukraine)
  Viktor Tkachenko is an expert on regional development. He is an expert for the "Regional Development Agencies" component of the LARGIS II Project. Viktor Tkachenko worked as the Head of Department of Professional Education of Division of Education and Scientific Activity of Odessa Oblast State Administration, and also a professor of the Department of State Management and local self-government in Odessa Regional Institute of State Management of the National Academy of State Administration at the President of Ukraine. He was the First Deputy Head of Main Financial Department - Head of Division on Regional Development Issues of Odessa Oblast State Administration. Viktor Tkachenko has an experience in international projects. During 2001-2003 he was a representative of Odessa Oblast Administration in CBC project "Lower Danube Lakes: Sustainable Conservation and Protection of Habitats and Ecosystems", and also during 2003-2004 he was a partner of TACIS CBC project "Business infrastructure Odessa oblast, Euroregion "Lower Danube". Since April 2006 Viktor Tkachenko has been working at the Monitoring and Consolidation Service of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine.

 

Markiyan Datsyshyn (Ukraine)
  Markiyan Datsyshyn is an expert on regional development. He has PhD in Economics defended at the Institute of Regional Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since September 1999 he worked as an expert and the Deputy Director and since May 2005 - as the Director of the Ukrainian Economic Think Tank "Institute of Reforms" (Kyiv). He is an expert for the "Methodology for Defining and Ranking of Depressed Regions and Territories" component of the LARGIS II Project. During the recent 6 years he developed rating studies of the Ukrainian regions, cities and territories in the context of regional and investment policy. Since June 2005 Markiyan Datsyshyn is an expert of the Working Group on the Economic Policy Improvement at the Office of Prime-Minister of Ukraine. Since April 2006 he has been working as the Head of the Monitoring and Consolidation Service of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine. He has sufficient experience of legislative drafts on economic issues development and expertise both at the level of the Parliament and the Government, as well as analysis of the Ukrainian investment and regional policy and peculiarities of its implementation

 

Yuriy Hanushchak (Ukraine)
  Yuriy Hanushchak is an expert in local/national public finance and public procurement issues. He is an expert for the "State Capital Investment Grants" component of the LARGIS II Project. He is a Doctor of Philosophy, MA in Public Administration. Mr. Hanushchak is one of the authors of the Budget Code of Ukraine. He has extensive experience of work with international technical assistance projects. In 1996 - 2003, in the framework of projects implemented by RTI/USAID, he provided other national and international organizations policy advices and consultations in local finance and public procurement and public tenders to the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Budget Committee and Committee on State and Local Governance, World Bank, Association of Ukrainian Cities and Communities, and he developed financial analysis model for range of Ukrainian cities etc. Mr. Hanushchak coordinated all RTI projects in Western Ukraine. In 1995 - 1996 he provided services to foreign investment projects in the position of chief of investment department at the Khmelnytskiy City Council. Yuriy Hanushchak is elected member of city council of Khmelnytskiy. Mr. Hanushchak is an expert on budget issues to the Association of Ukrainian Cities and Communities and a member of the Association of Ukrainian Finance Officers. His scientific interests are local governance, administrative reform, municipal finances and management, corruption and organising, conducting and monitoring tender processes, lobbing of local government interests in budget process.