Vorona Valerii Mykhailovych

He graduated from the faculty of economics of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University. He worked as an economist at a research institute of chemical engineering, and from 1969 to 1980, as well as from 1985 to 1988, at the Kyiv Institute of the National Economy as an assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor and professor of the department of political economy, as dean of a faculty and as vice-rector of the institute. From 1980 to 1985 he worked as head of the laboratory of the scientific organisation of labour and production management and as head of the department of automated production management systems of the information and computing centre of the Kyiv Motorcycle Plant. From 1988 – head of the department of the sociology of labour of the Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine, and with the founding of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine in 1990 – head of the department of economic sociology. From 1992 to 2022 – director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine.

Candidate of Economic Sciences (from 1970), associate professor (from 1975), Doctor of Economic Sciences (from 1990), professor (from 1992). In 1998 he was awarded the honorary title «Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine», in 2000 he was elected a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, and in 2006 an academician of the NAS of Ukraine. His research interests were the economic and social regularities of the development of society, economic sociology, the sociology of labour and the sociology of management. Author of more than 100 scholarly works. Widely known are the monitoring studies of Ukrainian society conducted under the leadership of V. M. Vorona at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine since 1994. Editor-in-chief of the journal «Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing». (1998—2022)