In 2004 Vitaliy Pylypiv graduated from the postgraduate study program at the Council for Ukraine's Productive Forces Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the specialty "Distribution of Productive Forces and Regional Economics" and defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Regional Peculiarities of Formation and Development of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Ukraine". In 2011 he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic "Restoration of Territorial Economic Systems in the Financial Space of the State" in the specialty 08.00.03 - Economics and Management of the National Economy. From 2004 till 2016 Vitaliy Pylypiv worked in scientific positions at the Council for Ukraine's Productive Forces Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, State Agency "Institute of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" and at the National University of State Tax Service of Ukraine. He is the author of more than 70 scientific works, including 2 individual monographs: "Management of Reproduction of Territorial Economic Systems in the Financial Space" and "Budgetary Financing of Socio-Economic Development of Ukrainian Regions", which was awarded in 2007 with a diploma of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Departmental honors: Acknowledgments of the Kyiv Mayor, Diploma of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, certificates of the Council for Ukraine's Productive Forces Studies and the National University of State Tax Service of Ukraine. Scientific interests: financial support of regional development, financial space, capitalization of territorial resources. Member of two specialized academic councils: D 26.001.48 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev D 25.855.01 University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. | 
