Mykola Nazarov

Areas of expertise: National resilience, European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, civil-military cooperation, Ukrainian war refugees, postwar reconstruction of Ukraine, political and social transformations in Ukraine.

Languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian.

Dr Mykola Nazarov joined the ICDS as a non-resident research fellow in January 2025. He is an Assistant Professor at Sumy State University (Ukraine) and Director of the Research Centre for Regional Security. He specialises in European and Euro-Atlantic integration, civil-military cooperation, and political and social transformations in Ukraine. Currently, he also represents Ukraine in the Programme Committee “Public Safety for Society” of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme and has recently worked as a lead expert on national resilience in the Homeland Security Division at the GLOBSEC Kyiv Office. In 2021-23, he served as an expert in the framework of the Resilient Ukraine programme, led by the ICDS and supported by the Estonian Development Co-operation.

His articles have been published in journals such as Journal of Community Psychology, Stress and Health, Foresight, Demokratizatsiya, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Problems and Perspectives in Management. Dr Nazarov is the author of National Resilience and Post-war Reconstruction of Ukraine (Springer 2025) and co-author of the study Mapping the peacetime reconstruction needs of Ukraine (European Parliament, 2026), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles.

Mykola holds a PhD in political science from the Kharkiv National University, and Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University. He participates as an invited speaker in international conferences and seminars and frequently contributes to expert debates in Ukrainian and international media.

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