Dr Boytsun advises on corporate governance reform in SOEs and privatisation. In 2016–2018, he was an independent member of the SOE Nomination Committee, responsible for nominating CEOs and board members in Ukraine’s most important SOEs. He is a co-founder of the Ukrainian Corporate Governance Academy. Previously, he was Research Director at the Centre for Economic Strategy, Ukraine’s leading economic think tank. Prior to that, as Adviser to the CEO of Naftogaz, he designed its corporate governance reform making it a pioneer in Ukraine. He was Assistant and later Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Antwerp. Dr Boytsun holds a PhD in Economics from the same University, with a thesis on corporate governance.