Vlad Mykhnenko

Dr Vlad Mykhnenko is an economic geographer, working on a range of issues relating to urban and regional economic development, and geographical political economy. Much of Vlad’s research focusses on the interrelationship between spatial imbalances in production and income, urban growth and decline, state fiscal power inequalities, territorial cohesion, and societal conflict. Empirically, he works with urban and regional data gathered in developing middle-income countries and territories, including the post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Brazil, and China, as well as in high-income, industrially advanced economies of Western Europe, North America, and Japan. Most recently, Vlad has given oral evidence in public to the House of Commons of the 58th UK Parliament, in connection with the Foreign Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the challenges of Recovery in Ukraine. Currently, he is giving advice to the Mayor of Mariupol and the City Council on Mariupol Reborn – a post-war revival strategy for the pulverised city.