1. A specialised Academic Council D. 26.006.02 was established in Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. It is permitted to review and organise the defence of the theses for the obtainment of the academic degree of a ScD (PhD) in Economics in speciality 08.00.02 (World Economy and International Economic Relations).

2. ScD in Economics, Professor Dmytro Lukyanenko, who is the dean of the Faculty of International Economics and Management, the head of the Intrernational Management Department of Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University, was appointed the head of the specialised academic council.

3. ScD in Economics, Professor Anatoly Poruchnyk, director of the Master Training Centre, the head of the International Economy Department of Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University, was appointed the deputy head of the specialised academic council.

4. ScD in Economics, Professor Larysa Antoniuk, the deputy head of the International Economy Department of Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University, was appointed the academic secretary of the specialised academic council.

5. The membership of the specialised Academic Council of Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University was approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

6. The term of office of specialised academic council D 26.006.02 of Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University was set from 26 April 2010 till 26 April 2013.

The first defence of theses took place on 7 April 2005. Over the time of existence of the specialised Academic Council, 7 doctor (ScD) and 81 candidate (PhD) theses were defended.

Lines of Research

• international economy, trends and laws of its development;
• national economies in the contemporary international economy system and models of their development;
• resources of the international economic development and the specialisation of countries of the world;
• the evaluation of the system of international economic relations;
• theories of the international trade and their modern modification;
• forms and methods of the international trade and economic exchange;
• international trade policy and commercial diplomacy;
• the status, trends, development prospects of the world market of goods and services;
• the motivation and forms of the international flows of capital;
• foreign direct investments and international production;
• foreign portfolio investments and world stock market;
• international lending relations and regulation thereof;
• world financial market, trends and laws of the development of its structure;
• human resources and their international flow;
• international labour migration, its consequences and regulation;
• the formation and development trends of the international labour market;
• theories of exchange rates and foreign exchange policy;
• national and international (regional) foreign exchange systems;
• the evolution of the world currency system. International foreign exchange market and currency transactions.
• international payments and their modern technologies;
• theory and practice of the international business and its modern forms;
• strategies and technologies of the international management. Methodology of the international marketing and its modern toolkit;
• global problems and challenges of the economic development;
• development of global markets and mechanisms of the operation thereof;
• the formation of the global economic system;
• international organisations and global institutionalisation;
• the implementation of information technologies into the international economic development and the international exchange of science and technology;
• social dimensions of the global economic development;
• manifestations and nature of the economic alterglobalism and antiglobalism;
• the geoeconomic strategy of Ukraine and its regional integration priorities;
• strategies of the international economic activities of Ukraine, the development and the diversification of its forms.