Robert S. Kravchuk is Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington's Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University in 1989, an M.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University in 1987, an M.B.A. in Finance and Business Economics from Columbia University in 1981, an M.P.A. in Public Administration from the University of Hartford in 1980, a B.S. cum laude in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut in 1977, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut in 1977. A National Academy of Public Administration Fellow since 2014, Kravchuk is an internationally recognized expert in public administration, public finance, and political economy, with special emphasis on Ukraine and Russia. His research specializations encompass public finance and economics, macro-budgeting, public debt markets, U.S. Defense Department procurement management, local governance, international affairs and development, public management, and the political economy of reform in formerly socialist countries. He frequently writes and lectures on public budgeting and finance, administrative reform, and fiscal capacity-building.

Kravchuk's distinguished career includes serving as U.S. Treasury Resident Budget Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Financial Advisor to the President of Bosnia-Herzegovina appointed by the U.S. Secretaries of State and Treasury, and Under Secretary (deputy state budget director) in the Connecticut State Office of Policy and Management. He participated in numerous U.S. Treasury Department expert missions to former Soviet and Eastern European countries. Academically, he was Professor and Chair of the Political Science and Public Administration Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2007 to 2012, faculty at Indiana University Bloomington from 1998 to 2007 and since 2013, and former Director of the Master of Public Affairs program. He has received the Outstanding Faculty Award from UNC Charlotte in 2011, Trustees Teaching Excellence Recognition Awards from Indiana University in 2005 and 2003, the O'Neill Teaching Award in 2004, and a Certificate of Merit from the United States Treasury Department in 1996. Key publications include co-authoring the ninth edition of the textbook Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector (with Richard M. Clerkin and David H. Rosenbloom), articles such as 'An historical analysis of the use of debt-related derivatives by state governments in the context of the Great Recession' (2013) and 'Recent developments in municipal debt and the 2008-09 market crisis' (2012), and books on Ukrainian political economy including Politics and Society in Ukraine (1999) and Ukrainian Political Economy: The First Ten Years (2002). He serves on the editorial boards of Administration & Society and the Journal of Public Budget, Accounting and Financial Management.

Professional Email: kravchuk@iu.edu