PAVEL OVSEIKO

Pavel Ovseiko earned a degree in Economics and Statistics at the  Belarus State Economic University in Minsk, read for a Master's in Social Administration at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, and qualified in Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta. He is presently researching for a Doctorate in Social Policy at Jesus College, one of the constituent Colleges of the University of Oxford.

He held a number of academic awards including the British Chevening Scholarship and the Oxford Clarendon Fund Bursary. As a Hansard Scholar, he pursued courses of study and research in Parliamentary Democracy and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Commons Health Select Committee of the British Parliament. As an International Policy Fellow, he examined health policy process in Hungary at the Center for Policy Studies in Budapest. As a Visiting Scientist, he analysed welfare state transformation in Central and Eastern Europe at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

His general research interests are in the fields of the politics of social policy, welfare ideology, organised interests, international comparative health policy, transitional development of Central and Eastern European welfare states, and the economic and social implications of demographic ageing. He is presently undertaking a doctoral research project on health care reform in Central and Eastern Europe.