Brain Bonner became chief editor of the Kyiv post on june 9 2008. He also held in job in 1999, three years after first arriving in Ukraine to teach journalism. Bonner spent most of his career with the St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota, where he covered international, national and local news for more than 20 years as a staff writer and assigning editor. He also worked as on election expert on six observation missions with the Organization for security and Cooperation in Europe in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhsthan and Turkmenistan between 1999 and 2013.
He is interested in journalism, hence worked to promote investigative journalism, journalism training and exchanges.