Ihor Koval
Ihor Mykolaiovych Koval is a Ukrainian political scientist on international relations, Doctor of Political Sciences, professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences, rector of Odesa University.
Biography
Ihor Koval was born February 27, 1955, in Odesa and graduated high school No.3 in 1972.He graduated from the historical faculty of Odesa University. Historian, teacher of history and social science. He defended his thesis in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.. Assistant professor of modern and contemporary history ; senior lecturer, assistant professor of modern and contemporary history, acting deputy dean of the History Faculty of I.I. Mechnikov ONU.
Since 1996 - director of the Social Sciences Institute at Mechnykov ONU. He defended his doctoral thesis on "The conceptual design of the United States Eastern European policy at the beginning of global transformation process" at the World Economy and International Relations Institute at Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. He received the Doctor of Political Sciences degree in 2000 and in 2001 became a professor.
In 2010 he was elected as a rector of the I.I. Mechnykov Odesa National University (ONU).
In 2015, by the decision of the university staff Ivan Koval was re-elected for a second term as a rector of ONU.
Under the leadership of Rector Koval put into operation a new seven-story 6500 square meters academic building of the university. Thanks to an investment strategy for the first time in the country's independence history it was in Mechnykov University where 90 families of university employees received state housing. In 2010, the university launched a publishing house that produces up to 500 scientific and methodical literature units annually. In 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the ONU, university's history Museum was opened. Today, 28 scientific schools and 20 research laboratories are working at Mechnykov ONU.
Social activity
1998 - 2004 - Igor Koval became Advisor of the Odesa Regional State Administration Chairman;1997 - Director of the Odesa's applied social sciences program; 1997–1998 - Coordinator of the European research program in the framework of the EU TEMPUS-TACIC program;
since 1999 - head of the scientific seminar on international relations theory of history and historiography at the House of Scientists ;
1995 - political media expert analyst.
Titles and awards
- 2004 - Honored Worker of Science and Technology;
- 2009 - corresponding member of the Ukrainian Political Sciences Academy;
- 2016 - Honorary Doctor of the "Lower Danube" University Galati, Romania
- 2015, 2016 - the laureate of the media rankings "100 most influential personalities in Odesa" held by Forum of Journalists;
- 2016 – Order of Merit (Ukraine) III degree
Scientific activity
I.N. Koval - founder of the Odesa International Studies Research School ;As a specialist - expert in the field of international relations, I.N. Koval passed scientific training and conducted lectures at universities abroad:
- 1989 - scientific training and a course of lectures at Goucher College Baltimore, United States;
- 1993 - Fulbright Program for scientific research and lectures at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, United States;
- 1994, 2005 - scientific training for foreign policy study in the post-Soviet states at Kennan Institute Washington D.C., United States.
- 2001- new training courses development at the University of Maryland, College Park United States
- 1987 - Ukrainian Association of Political Science;
- 1992 - The association of foreign affairs researchers of the CIS countries
- 1993 - The Association of International Studies ;
- 1994 - The Association of in-depth Slavic Studies ;