Smakota Viktoria Vitaliivna

In 1999 she graduated with distinction from the International Solomon University (Kyiv), and in 2002 – from the postgraduate programme of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine. In 2003 she defended a candidate’s dissertation on "The ethos of economic behaviour in Orthodoxy and Judaism: a comparative analysis". Since 2003 she has worked as a leading sociologist of the department of economic sociology of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, since 2010 – as a junior research fellow, since 2012 as a research fellow of the department, and since 2017 as a senior research fellow of the department. Since 2022 she has headed the department of economic sociology.

Research interests: economic culture, socio-economic behaviour, the humanitarian aspects of economic development.