Inna Pidluska
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
Inna Pidluska is at present Vice
President of the Center for Independent Political Research
(UCIPR). She has broad experience
in policy analysis and research, as well as strategic planning
for NGOs and think tanks. Since
1992, Since 1992, planned, organized and supervised UCIPR’s
research activities, conferences
and other outreach events for Ukrainian and foreign policy-makers,
NGOs and journalists (sponsored
by NED, USAID, CIPE, NATO, British Know How Fund, IRF,
Freedom House). Ms. Pidluska has
been in charge of developing and updating UCIPR’s media
outreach strategy, including both
creating and maintaining the UCIPR’s in-house media, the
Sposterihach and the Economic Reform
Today magazines, newsletter and bulletins, and working
with external media outlets to secure
the broadest possible coverage for their events.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Since 1997, Inna Pidluska organized
research and information exchange on issues of economic and
social transformation of Ukraine:
analysis of the current legislation and prospective bills from the
perspective of their impact on the
general business climate in Ukraine, experience of economic
transition in CEE, SME development,
economic and social security. She organized 35 roundtables
on issues of economic and social
security reform, attended by about 500 policy-makers, economic
and social advocates, and about
200 journalists. Currently she is working on a database of Ukraine's
economic and social development
and supervises UCIPR's policy analysis efforts. Analysis and
policy recommendations are disseminated
through UCIPR's in-house publications, public outreach
events and the UCIPR program that
provides policy advice to members of the parliament and
government agencies. She also edits
a magazine, Economic Reform Today, focusing on
democratization and economic transformation
practices and achievements of Central and Eastern
European countries and other states
in transition.
In 1992 –1996, the main focus of
Inna Pidluska’s research was on political and security
transformations in Ukraine and its
direct neighborhood. She organized research and conferences on
issues including European security,
the situation in the Crimea, Ukrainian-Russian relations (with
NATO, 1993; with the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 1994); the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (1995).
As Project Director and Editor of
the UNHCR-sponsored CIS Local Monitoring Project (1996-
1998), she recruited, trained and
managed staff and team of field officers in Ukraine, Belarus and
Moldova; identified research agendas
and developed a regular electronic information products. In
1998, she attended the foundation
meeting of the NIS Conflict Prevention and Resolution Working
Group and was involved in development
of Western NIS Conflict Prevention Network.
EDUCATION and TRAINING
April 2000 – present Vice President, Center for Independent Political Research (UCIPR)
Dec. 1996– Apr. 2000 Head of the Economic and Social Analysis Division; Project Director, "Information for Reform", editor of Ukrainian edition of Economic Reform Today and UCIPR Research Update
Feb. 1998 – Aug. 1999 Project Director and Editor, "Corruption Watch"
Aug. 1996 – Nov. 1998 Project Director and Editor, CIS Local Monitoring Project
Aug. 1995 – Dec. 1995 Head of the Foreign Policy Division, UCIPR
Jun. 1992 – Aug. 1995 Deputy Head, Foreign Policy Division, Co-Editor of the Sposterihach magazine, UCIPR
1991-1992 PEACEPIPE Center for International Youth Cooperation, Kiev, International programs assistant/translator
Fellowships and Membership of Professional Associations
FCO Chevening Scholar (UK), 1994-1995
NATO Democracy Fellow, 1996-1998
Fellow at Advocacy Institute (USA),
1999
Member, Ukraine-UK Professional
Network, Worldwide Movement for Democracy and
Global Development Network
Experience with Grant Administration
1993-1995 - from Westminster Foundation
for Democracy
1996-present - from CIPE
1997-1998 - from British Know How
Fund
1997-1999 - from ARD/CHECCI Rule
of Law Consortium
Selected Publications
Issue of Corruption in Ukraine:
Promoting Public Resistance to Corruption and Reducing Corruption Opportunities,
in:
Countering Corruption: Role of
Civil Society, (St. Petersburg, 2000)
Ukrainian Business Elites. Part 1: the Parliament (Kyiv, 2000)
Article on Ukraine, in: Nations in Transit (a yearbook on CEE and NIS development published by Freedom House (USA), 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997
Corruption vs Clean Business in Ukraine, in: Economic Reform Today, Vol. 2, 1998
Two Wings of Ukrainian Radicalism: A Challenge to the Emergent Democracy, in: NATO Democracy Fellowship Publicaions, 1998
The Crimea: Chronicle of Separatism
(Kyiv, 1996)
Inna Pidluska
pidluska@policy.hu