Taras Kuzio (born 7 April 1958) is a Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine).

[7][non-primary source needed] In 1992-93, Kuzio worked as a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

From 1995-98, he was a senior research fellow with the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Birmingham in England, where he completed his PhD on nation- and state-building in Ukraine.

[citation needed] In 2004-06, he was a visiting professor in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES).

[18][19] He is an associate research fellow at the UK Henry Jackson Society thinktank[20][21][22] and has contributed to the Atlantic Council,[21][23] Foreign Affairs,[24] Kyiv Post,[25] New Eastern Europe,[26] and E-International Relations.