TRANSFORMATION THROUGH TRANSPARENCY: ANTI-CORRUPTION REFORMS AS THE KEY PRINCIPLE IN UKRAINE’S RECONSTRUCTION

Dr. Michael Martin Richter is a Postdoc Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Surrey within the Horizon Europe REDEMOS project as well as a Member of Board of the Our Future Foundation and the Co-Founder and Academic Advisor of the Coopernicus.pl platform. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen and a Fellow at Harvard University, a Policy Expert at the Foreign Investor’s Council in Latvia, and a Visiting Scholar at the SWP office in Brussels. He defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Power, Politics, and Anti-Corruption Reforms in Ukraine: The Role of Western Actors’ in August 2023 at the University of Bremen.