Marta Dyczok is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, University of Western Ontario, Fellow at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2005-2006 she was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC. She is the author of two books, The Grand Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees, and Ukraine: Change Without Movement, Movement Without Change, and numerous articles. From 1991-1996 she lived in Ukraine working as a journalist and university lecturer, and is currently working on a book on Media and the Struggle for Power in Ukraine.

Oleh Havrylyshyn is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies with former positions as Deputy Director of European Department at the IMF in Washington; faculty member at George Washington University; and Acting Deputy Minister of Finance Government of Ukraine. His research interests include development economics and the political economy of transition. His most recent books include Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation (2006) (Ukrainian translation 2007), and Return to Growth in CIS Countries (2006). He has published widely in professional journals including Comparative Economic Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Economic Policy, IMF Staff Papers, Journal of Development Economics.

Jakob Hedenskog, Deputy Research Director at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), is Visiting Fellow at the Petro Jacyk Program for the study of Ukraine from September 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. He will be conducting research on Ukraine's defence and security sector reforms, its relations with Russia and the situation around Crimea and the Black Sea region. Among his earlier studies, one can mention "Crimea after the Georgian Crisis" (2008), "Russian Leverage on the CIS and the Baltic States" (together with Robert L. Larsson, 2007), "Ukraine and NATO" (2006), and "The Ukrainian Dilemma: Relations with Russia and the West in the Context of the 2004 Presidential Elections" (2004).

Serhiy Kudelia, Assistant Professor of Political Science at National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow at CERES. Serhiy is a recent PhD holder from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His publications include: The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, co-authored with Kiron Skinner, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Condoleezza Rice, University of Michigan Press, 2007; Raw Nerve: The Dynamics of 2000-01 Civic Protests in Ukraine, co-authored with Myroslava Gongadze, Open Society Foundation, Kyiv, 2004; and forthcoming “Betting on Society: Power Perceptions and Elite Games in Ukraine,” in Paul D’Anieri, ed., The Contest for Social Mobilization in Ukraine (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).

Peter H. Solomon, Jr. is Professor of Political Science, Law and Criminology, University of Toronto. He specializes in post-Soviet politics and in the politics of law and courts in various countries, including Canada and the USA. Author of Soviet Criminologists and Criminal Policy (1978); Criminal Justice Policy: From Research to Reform (1983), Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 [a Russian-language edition Sovetskaia iustitsiia pri Staline was published by “ROSSPEN” in 1998 and reprinted in 2008]); Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864-1996: Power, Culture, and the Limits of Legal Order (Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1997), editor and contributor; Courts and Transition in Russia: The Challenge of Judicial Reform (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2000) with Todd Foglesong; Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in Post-Soviet Ukraine (2001) with Todd Foglesong. Professor Solomon's current research includes: judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia and Ukraine; and law and courts in authoritarian and transitional states. He has been an active participant in judicial reform projects, including the Canada-Russia Judicial Partnership (2000-2008) and the Canada-Ukraine Judicial Cooperation Project (2006- ), both funded by CIDA. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institut prava i publichnoi politiki (Moscow) and the editorial boards of three journals, and a former Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the Munk Centre for International Studies.

Lucan Way is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is a specialist on regime development in the post-Cold War era in postcommunist Eurasia and the developing world as a whole. He has published in Comparative Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, East European Politics and Societies, Journal of Democracy, Politics & Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics. He is currently completing two book projects: "Authoritarian State Building and the Sources of Political Competition in the Former Soviet Union" and "Competitive Authoritarianism after the Cold War" (with Steven Levitsky).