Bohdan Krawchenko

Krawchenko was born in a displaced persons camp in Günzburg, Germany. His parents moved to France in 1947 before emigrating to Montreal, Canada, in 1951. His family subsequently moved to a farm in Ormstown, Quebec, where he attended high school. His father, originally from the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, was a survivor of Soviet dekulakization and a former deportee who escaped back to Ukraine before the war; his stories of the Holodomor and state-building influenced Krawchenko's intellectual formation. == Career ==

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies From 1986 to 1991, Krawchenko served as the second Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. In 1992, he became the founding director of the Institute of Public Administration and Local Government (which became the National Academy for Public Administration in 1995), modeled after the French École nationale d'administration. At the National Academy, he served as Vice-Rector. Krawchenko was a co-author of the 1993 Law on the Civil Service, making Ukraine the first in the former USSR to adopt such legislation. He was a member of government working groups, including those on monetary reform, administrative reform, and anti-crisis programming. From 1992 to 1999, he held leadership positions in the International Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine. Between 1997 and 2004, he chaired the Steering Committee of the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative for the Open Society Institute in Budapest. University of Central Asia Since 2004, Krawchenko has been with the University of Central Asia (UCA). He served as Director General from 2007 to 2014 and as Dean of the Graduate School of Development from 2014 to 2022. He is currently a Principal Research Fellow and Director of the Afghanistan Research Initiative. == Research and publications ==

Krawchenko's 1985 monograph, Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine, is considered a foundational text in Ukrainian social history. A Ukrainian translation of the work was re-issued in 2025. In 2025, he taught a specialized course on nation-building at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Selected works • Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine (1985). ISBN 978-0333361993. • Famine in Ukraine, 1932–1933 (co-editor with Roman Serbyn, 1986). ISBN 978-0920862438. • Ukrainian Past, Ukrainian Present (editor, 1993). ISBN 978-0312103583. • Universities and Society in Kyrgyzstan (co-author, 2021). DOI:10.1163/9789004459076_012. == Awards and honors ==

• Honorary Doctorate, University of North London, UK (1995) • Honorary Doctorate, National Academy of Public Administration, Ukraine (2000) • Award of Merit from the President of Ukraine, for contribution to the development of public administration (2000) • Medal of Excellence, Ministry of Education, Ukraine, for the development of gender studies (2001) • Antonovych prize (1986) == References ==