Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D., serves as a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He is also the Founding Rector of American University Kyiv, which he helped establish in 2022. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University.

Sheremeta has received numerous research and teaching accolades, including the 2018 Smith Ascending Scholar Prize for a “budding genius” in social science.