Head of Agricultural Information Division - Yevgeniy M. Orel

Date of birth: 24 December 1960

Place of birth: Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Family status: married with children (2 daughters)

Education, speciality:

• Higher education, Poltava Cooperative Institute, economist, graduated 1982;
• Post-Grad Studies, UAAS Institute for Agricultural Economics, Candidate of Sciences (Economics), degree conferred 02/1994.
• Docent [=Associate-Professor], Department of Economic Theory, National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, title conferred 12/2004.

Training programs:
«AgBusiness Exchange», Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University, USA; agribusiness consulting, USDA Cochran Fellowship Program, USA;  studying of Soziale Marktwirschaft, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany; preparation of a curricular unit on health economics for School of Public Health, the Netherlands; World Bank Flagship Courses on Health, Equity and Poverty (Угорщина); studying the experience of public health institutions in EU member-countries, Spain; preparation of joint research projects between NaUKMA and University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; studying the experience of seed corn production and sales, Fédération Nationale de la Production des Semences de Maїs et de Sorgho (FNPSMS), France.

Career:

• 08/1982-10/1982 – Deputy Chief Accountant, Rayon Farm Produce Procurement Agency, Zinkiv, Poltava Oblast;
• 11/1982-05/1984 – military service;
• 06/1984-10/1984 – Senior Inspector, Check-Up Committee, Vasylkiv Rayon Consumer Co-ops Union, Kyiv Oblast;
• 11/1984-01/1986 – Chairman of the Check-Up Committee, Chornobyl Rayon Consumer Co-ops Union, Kyiv Oblast;
• 02/1986-06/1987 – Deputy Chief, City Financial Department, Prypiat, Kyiv Oblast;
• 07/1987-09/1994 – Senior Economist, Post-Grad Student, Research Officer - UAAS Institute for Agricultural Economics, Kyiv;
• 10/1994-02/1997 – Program Assistant, USAID Agribusiness Volunteer Program, The Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, Kyiv;
• 03/1997-12/2000 – Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, USAID Agricultural Land Share Project, RONCO Consulting Corporation, Kyiv;
• 09/2001-06/2008 – Docent [=Associate-Professor], (1) Department of Economic Theory at Faculty of Economic Sciences, NaUKMA, and (2) School of Public Health, NaUKMA;
• 06/2002-09/2003 – Expert on Monitoring and Evaluation, Leadership For Results Project, UNDP (м.Київ)
• 07/2008- 09/2008 – Head of Division / Project Manager, All-Ukrainian Public Organization "Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation";
• 10/2008-даний час – Deputy Director General / Head of Analytical Department, All-Ukrainian Public Organization "Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation".

Public activities:

• Member of Association of Ukrainian Economists.

Language skills: Ukrainian, Russian, English - fluently; Français - limité.

Hobbies: music, chess.