• Social and economic research and monitoring of agricultural reform and rural development in transition countries
• Designing and monitoring information campaigns of the international development programs
• Reform of national and regional public administration regulating rural development, and local self-government in post-communist countries

• Implementing research project titled "Information Policy of the Ukrainian State: The Case of Agrarian and Land Reforms"

• Edited/translated reports on Village Community Survey (1998) co-sponsored by the USAID funded Center for Privatization and Economic Reform in Agriculture and the World Bank for the book “Rural Ukraine at the turn of century: social and anthropological dimensions”

• Developed PR strategy for the company, exploring advertisement market; translating

• Analyzed state agricultural policy and social research of the Land Reform for the book “Social Problems of the Reorganization of Collective Farms in Ukraine: 1996 – 2000”

• Planned and managed sociological/institutional/economic surveys in rural communities, at national and regional level
• Spearheaded investigative field trips of Project experts and governmental officials

• Designed and conducted PRA, mass and topical sociological surveys in rural communities, and of governmental officials
• Monitored Project information campaign at national, regional and local levels

U.N. Headquarters Intern, U.N. Secretariat, DESA, Intergovernmental Branch, New York, 06 – 08/99

I have designed or managed/conducted monitoring activities and research on the following issues: State Labor and Agriculture Institutions and Policies, and Land Reform (1998), Privatization of Collective Farms and Unemployment in Rural Communities (1998), Land Reform and Management of Rural Social Infrastructure (1997), The Role of Rural Councils in the Land Reform (1997), An Effectiveness of the State and Project information campaigns on the Land Reform (1996-98), New Minority in the New State: Russians and Russian-speaking population in Ukraine (1996-97), Language Policy of Ukraine: 1989 – 1995 (1994-95)

EDUCATION

• German Language “Grundkurs”, Kyiv State Courses of Foreign Languages “Interlingua”, 02/2000 - 02/2001
• Master of Public Administration, the University of Kansas, U.S.A., 08/98 – 12/99
• Private Rural Entrepreneurship Post-Graduate Study, the Institute of Economics, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, 11/96 – 08/98
• Five Years Study Degree in History. Minor: Political Science. Diploma with distinction, Donetsk State University, Donetsk, Ukraine, 09/89 – 06/95
• One Year Sociology Study. Minor: Nationalism and Ethnicity. The Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic, 10/92 – 07/93
• English and Advanced French Study. Certificate with distinction. Department of Foreign Languages, Donetsk State University, Donetsk, Ukraine, 10/91 – 05/92

1. A.Goncharuk, A.Marusov, T.Ostashko. Social Problems of the Reorganization of Collective Agricultural Enterprises in Ukraine, CSEP and IFC, Kyiv, Ukraine, August 2000
2. Reorganization of Collective Agricultural Enterprises, IFC, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1999 [co-author]
3. Effective Information Campaign, IFC, Kyiv, 1998 [co-author]
4. Marusov A., Ostashko T. Private Households in the Process of Land Reform in Ukraine // Some Aspects of the Agricultural Reforms in Ukraine. Institute of Economics of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1998