The report was prepared by an Independent Evaluation Group team led by Konstantin Atanesyan (senior evaluation officer) and Yumeka Hirano (economist), under the guidance and supervision of Jeff Chelsky (manager) and Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez (director) and the overall direction of Alison Evans (Director-General, Evaluation, and vice president).

The evaluation team included Independent Evaluation Group staff and consultants Yar Batoh, Corky De Asis, Lev Freinkman, Oksana Gryshkevych, Ruben Lamdany, Franz M. Loyola, Mariia Kriuchok, George Polenakis, Judyth Twigg, and Salman Zaheer. Harsh Anuj worked with the team on data collection and analysis of online news media articles, and Victor Andres Beltran Vela supported the team on preparing, conducting, and analyzing the survey data. Dung Thi Kim Chu and Anastasia Soltis provided administrative support to the evaluation team in Washington, DC, and Kyiv, respectively.

Peer reviewers were Sergei Guriev (professor of economics at SciencesPo, Paris, and former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Johannes F. Linn (senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, former World Bank vice president for the Europe and Central Asia Region), and Ivanna Vladkova Hollar (International Monetary Fund mission chief for Ukraine).

Independent Evaluation Group is grateful to the numerous representatives of the government of Ukraine, private sector entities, international and bilateral development partners, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations and academia who provided valuable insights into the World Bank Group’s support to Ukraine. The team is also thankful to Bank Group management and staff who provided valuable information and feedback to the evaluation team.