Ihor Slavovych Piliayev

Name, patronymic name, surname	Ihor Slavovych Piliayev
Position	Provost for International Issues
Academic ranks, degrees, decorations etc.	Doctor of Political Sciences (2004), Candidate of Economics (1988).
Date and place of birth	October 18, 1962 (city of Donetsk, Ukraine).
Education	Graduated with honors from the Department of Foreign Relations and International Law of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko State University (1984), the postgraduate course at the Institute of Social and Economic Problems of Foreign Countries of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1988).
Operational experience	1984 – 1985, economist of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (city of Donetsk). 1985 – 1988, postgraduate student of the Institute of Social and Economic Problems of Foreign Countries of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (city of Donetsk). 1989 – 1992, examiner in chief, main specialist of the Ukrainian Self-Supporting Foreign Trade Association (Foreign Trade Association “Ukrimpex”) under the auspices of the Government of Ukraine. 1991 – 1992, senior research officer of the Institute of International Economics and Foreign Relations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (as a part-time officer). 1991 – 1993, senior lecturer of the Chair of International Economic Relations of the Institute of Foreign Affairs attached to the Institute of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko State University (as a part-time officer). 1992 – 1993, Deputy Director of the Administrative Department – assistant to the Ministry of External Economic Links and Commerce of Ukraine. 1993 – 2005, prime consultant of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs. 1994 – 1995, secretary of the permanent delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (with the observer status) to the Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS member States (as a part-time officer). 1995 – 2005, secretary of the permanent delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (as a part-time officer). 2005 – 2008, counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Uzbekistan and (as a part-time officer) to the Republic of Tajikistan. Since 2008 – Provost for International Issues, professor of the Chair of International Relations of the IAPM.
Scientific interests	Analysis of the European and regional integration processes, political and legal aspects of European integration of Ukraine, problems of harmonization of international, inter-ethnic relations and an intercultural dialog.
Learned works and publications	Author (coauthor) of around 50 scientific publications (monographs, study guides, papers and the like), among which the principal ones are as follows: Ukraine in the Political and Legal Environment of the Council of Europe: Experience and problems; The Council of Europe: the Political and Legal Mechanism of Integration; The Council of Europe in the Modern European Integration Process; The Democratizing Dimension of European Integration; The Civilizational Environment of “Large Europe”: Theory, History, and the Present.
Hobbies	Poetry, tourism, tennis.
Office phone	8 (044) 490-9502, house phone 15-28.