Prof. Dr. Roman Petrov is Head of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2011 and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 2010. Petrov has been Head of International and European Law Department at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2015. Conducted post-doctoral research as Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and awarded research visiting fellowships at University of Heidelberg (Germany) (Alexander von Humboldt research fellow), University of Oxford (UK), Ghent University (Belgium) and other international universities. He is a visiting professor at the University of Latvia in Riga (Latvia) and Augsburg University (Germany), Foreign Chair at the Ghent University (Belgium) and the author of one of the first Ukrainian textbooks on EU Law. He is the founder and first elected President of the Ukrainian European Studies Association. Specialist research and teaching areas include: EU Law, EU Business Law; EU External Relations Law; Approximation and Harmonisation of Legislation in the EU; Legal Aspects of Regional Integration in the Post-Soviet Area. Petrov frequently provides consultancy to state institutions in Ukraine, including the Parliament of Ukraine, Constitutional Court of Ukraine and Ministry of Justice and is official expert at the European Parliament and Sectretariat of the Energy Community.