Alexandra Vacroux, Ph.D. is Vice President for Strategic Engagement at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), where she develops global partnerships to strengthen KSE’s academic reach and Ukraine’s human capital. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is the founding director of its Scholars Without Borders program. From 2010 to 2024, she served as Executive Director of the Davis Center, where she helped shape the REECA master’s program, mentored a new generation of regional experts, and fostered academic and policy dialogue on Eurasia.

Dr. Vacroux holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and has taught comparative politics of Eurasia and post-Soviet conflict. Her work connects academic research to real-world decision-making, with a focus on Russian and Eurasian policy, governance, and the war in Ukraine.

Earlier in her career, she spent over a decade in Moscow in academic, public, and private-sector roles—consulting for the Russian Privatization Agency, serving as partner and head of sales at the investment bank Brunswick Warburg, contributing to United Way Moscow, and completing dissertation research affiliated with the Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR). Before joining Harvard, she was a scholar at the Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C.