Ole Nivievskyi holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Applied Statistics from University of Göttingen (2010) and M.A. in Economics from the National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (Ukraine, 2004). He also holds a Diploma in Physics from National Kamyanets-Podilskyi University (Ukraine, 2001). 

Oleh has more than 20 years of international experience in applied research in agri-food products and factor markets and value chains, as well as in agri-food and regulatory policy impact. Oleh is also interested in a political economy and performance of local governance in Ukraine, EU integration, conflicts’ impact and post-war rebuilding and recovery, as well as in transport services pricing and policy. His research interest competitiveness measurement, efficiency and productivity analysis, and benchmarking. Oleh combines his work as a research fellow at the Institute of East European and the Economics Department at the Free University of Berlin with the Professorship at Kyiv School of Economics. Oleg also holds an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. 

Oleh is a founder of the Center for Food and Land Use Research at Kyiv School of Economics in 2020 and co-organizer of the first EAAE Seminar in the post-soviet region in Kyiv in 2016. Oleh also heavily contributed (by a persistent and substantial research and advocacy efforts) to several major reforms in Ukraine, including a comprehensive farmland market reform and opening of the farmland market in 2021. Oleg’s country experience covers Germany, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, and Ukraine.