About the Authors
John Lough is the managing director of JBKL Advisory Ltd, a government relations and strategic consulting company. He is an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, and co-author (with Timothy Ash, Janet Gunn, Orysia Lutsevych, James Nixey, James Sherr and Kataryna Wolczuk) of the Chatham House report The Struggle for Ukraine (2017) and (with Iryna Solonenko) of the Ukraine Forum’s inaugural publication, Can Ukraine Achieve a Reform Breakthrough? (2016).
Vladimir Dubrovskiy is a senior economist at CASE Ukraine. His main areas of interest are the political and institutional economics in application to Ukraine, particularly the issues of corruption, economic reforms, the small and medium-sized enterprises sector, and business climate. He has participated in numerous projects for the World Bank, the Global Development Network and the Harvard Institute for International Development.