On December 24, 2020, at 48 Maia Sandu was sworn in as the first female President of the Republic of Moldova.
Sandu founded the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) in May 2016, a political formation she presided until December 2020, resigning after winning the presidential election. From February to June 2019, she acted as a Member of Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.
In June 2019, she was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, a position she held until November 2019.
Prior to her political career, Maia Sandu held various positions in the public administration of the Republic of Moldova, both in the Ministry of Economy and Trade and Ministry of Education which she led as Minister between 2012-2015.
Civil service career alternated with the work for the World Bank, both in its office in Chisinau as well as Adviser of the Executive Director of the World Bank in US.
President Sandu holds a Master’s degree in public policy from Kennedy School of Public Administration at Harvard University as well as a Master Degree in International Relations from the Moldovan Public Administration Academy and a Bachelor Degree in Management.

Rob Portman was first elected to the United States Senate in 2010, winning by 18 points.  He was reelected in 2016 by an even more impressive 21 points, winning 84 of Ohio’s 88 counties and receiving over 3.1 million votes – the second highest vote total for any elected official in Ohio’s history.

Rob has built a reputation in the Senate as a conservative leader who can bring people together to deliver results.  President Trump has signed dozens of Portman’s bills into law, including legislation to combat the addiction epidemic, curb human trafficking, help people better save for retirement, and support members of our military and their families.  Rob’s leadership was critical to Congress passing the historic tax cuts and tax reform, and his strong and steadfast support publicly and behind the scenes helped send Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Rob has an A rating from the NRA and a 100% rating from National Right to Life.

Prior to his service in the Senate, Rob served Ohio and our nation as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the United States Trade Representative, and a member of the House of Representatives representing Ohio’s diverse, seven-county Second Congressional District.

Rob is a small business owner and grew up in a small business family, where he learned early on the value of hard work, leadership, and fiscal responsibility.  Rob was born and raised in Cincinnati, where he still lives today with his wife Jane and their dog Huckleberry.  Together they have three children: Jed, Will, and Sally.

Borys Gudziak is the current Archeparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. He founded the Institute of Church History and served as the rector and president of the Ukrainian Catholic University. He was previously ordained as a priest, and later a bishop.

Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber, where he has managed the company’s business in more than 70 countries around the world since 2017.

Dara was previously CEO of Expedia, which he grew into one of the world’s largest online travel companies. A seasoned executive with a background in both engineering and finance, Dara oversaw a number of acquisitions that bolstered Expedia’s offerings and aggressively invested in mobile, which now accounts for more than half of Expedia’s traffic. He was also beloved by Expedia’s employees and named one of the Highest Rated CEOs on Glassdoor. Dara was promoted to Expedia CEO after serving as the Chief Financial Officer of IAC Travel, a division of IAC, which purchased Expedia in 2002 and spun it off in 2005. He was also instrumental in the expansion of IAC’s portfolio of travel brands.

Before joining IAC, Dara served as Vice President of Allen & Company and spent a number of years as an analyst. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Expedia and Catalyst.org and was previously on the board of the New York Times Company. He’s a passionate advocate for refugees in crisis around the world, having himself left Iran during the Iranian Revolution at the age of 9.

Dara grew up in Tarrytown, New York, and received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Brown University.

Anastasia joined the Ministry team 1.5 years ago and leads the Digital Transformation. Previously she served as deputy head of Odesa Regional State Administration. For over 15 years before that she has worked within transatlantic corporations and telecommunication companies in Ukrainian, European and Asian markets.

Education:

Higher education at the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Academic Degree of a Candidate of Economic Sciences in International Economy and Finance and the Master’s Degree in International Economic Relations

Work experience:

20 years of experience in the financial sector and investment banking.

He held managerial positions in leading investment organizations, in particular as the Director of the Concorde Capital investment company and one of the heads of the Ukrainian subdivision of the Amstar International Direct Investment Fund headquartered in the USA, whose assets under management amounted to more than $3 billion at the time of his employment. Implemented fundraising projects using such instruments as IPO, private placement, Eurobonds and syndicated financing.

Banking experience includes the signing of more than 30 agreements on interbank lending with leading global financial institutions for a total amount of more than $300 million and the development of the financial and risk controlling system at the Ukrainian branch of HVB Bank, Germany. The total amount of assets in project management experience in various industries exceeds half a billion US dollars.

In June 2021, he was appointed as a freelance adviser to the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.

Participated in the preparation of international loans to Ukravtodor, development of the public-private partnership strategy, preparation and implementation of intergovernmental agreements, negotiations with IFIs regarding the financing of large-scale infrastructure projects in Ukraine.

Co-author of a number of amendments to legislative acts of Ukraine.

On 13 December 2021, by order No. 1651-r, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed Oleksandr Hryban as the Deputy Minister of Economic of Ukraine.

David Arakhamia is a Ukrainian politician, businessman and volunteer of Georgian descent. He is a member of the Servant of the People political party. Arakhamia was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019. In parliament he was elected as his party’s faction leader on 29 August 2019.

n 2002, Arakhamia co-founded the IT company ‘TempleteMonster’, which develops website templates for business and e-commerce. In 2013, the company was sold to a private American fund. The cost of the deal is not known for sure, the Internet contained information about $ 100 million.

In 2014, with the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Arakhamia began to volunteer. In August 2014, he was appointed the adviser to the chair of Mykolaiv regional state administration.

In September 2014, Arakhamia was appointed a Commissioner of the Minister of Defense for Procurement.

In 2016, Arakhamia developed a new project – ‘Weblium’ web platform.

In June-July 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Arakhamia a member of the Supervisory Board of ‘Ukroboronprom’ and Secretary of the National Investment Council.

On March 13, 2021, Arahamia headed the political council of the ‘Servant of the People’ party.

Born in 1973 in Lviv.

In 1995 he graduated from Lviv State University with a degree in law science, specialty – lawyer.

In 1995 Herman Haluschenko got a second higher education. He graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade with a degree in management of the foreign economic activity, has a master’s degree in International Management.

Has a degree of PhD in Law.

From February 1994 to June 1995 he worked as a lawyer of JV “DOMAR Travel and Tours Trans LTD” in Lviv. Later, from June 1995 to April 1996, he was an assistant prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office of Lviv region.

During the year, from April 1996 to March 1997, Herman Haluschenko served as Attaché, third secretary of the Contractual and Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

From March 1997 to June 2010 he worked in the Secretariat (Administration) of the President of Ukraine – senior consultant, chief consultant, head of division, deputy head of the Department of the Secretariat (Administration) of the President of Ukraine.

In 2011, he worked for a short period as the chief legal adviser of the SE “State Expert Center “of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

From April 2011 to July 2013, he worked in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, where he held the positions of Assistant to the Minister of Justice, Head of Department on Court Proceedings of the Ministry of Justice.

In 2013-2014 he worked as an Executive Director on Legal Support of SE NNEGC Energoatom.

Starting From September 1, 2014 – associate professor of private international law chair of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

By the order № 493-p dated March 6, 2020, German Galushchenko was appointed to the position of Vice President of the SE NNEGC “Energoatom”.

April 29, 2021 – appointed as Minister of Energy of Ukraine.

Has an honorary title “Honored Lawyer of Ukraine” (2004).

Awarded with the Order of Danylo Halytsky (2009).

Since September 7, 2022, Rustem Umerov is the Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine. From August 29, 2019 until his appointment to the post, he was a People’s Deputy of Ukraine.

He began his career in 2004 at a telecommunications company, holding various management positions. In 2013, he founded the investment company ASTEM and the charity fund ASTEM Foundation:
– ASTEM manages investments in the fields of communications, information technology and infrastructure.
– ASTEM Foundation is one of the donors of the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders program at Stanford University, which aims to train Ukrainian politicians, lawyers, social entrepreneurs, businessmen, and community leaders.

In 2019, he was elected a People’s Deputy of Ukraine. While working in the Verkhovna Rada, he headed the Special Temporary Commission for Monitoring the Receipt and Use of International Material and Technical Aid. He was a co-chairman of the Crimea Platform parliamentary association, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating group with the russian federation.

Graduate of the Crimean Boarding School for Gifted Children of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine. He is a Fellow of the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) of the USA; the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program; the American-Ukrainian Leadership Program; the European Youth Parliament; the AEGEE European Students’ Forum; the Forum of the Future Summit and the European Law Students’ Association. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Finance from the National Academy of Management.

Sviatoslav (Slava) Vakarchuk is the leader and founder of the rock band “Okean Elzy”, a social activist with a PhD in theoretical physics.

In 2003 Sviatoslav became an Honorary Ambassador of Culture in Ukraine.
In 2005 he became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program.

In 2015 Sviatoslav Vakarchuk was declared as the most active Ukrainian philanthropist.
In 2015, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk became a Yale World Fellow. He was the third fellow from Ukraine since the program launched in 2002. The program is designed for mid-career professional with a significant record of achievements. From 2015-2016, Slava gave several lectures and presentations at UC Berkeley, Fordham, Columbia and Harvard.
In fall 2017, Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) invited Mr. Vakarchuk as a visiting scholar.

Slava Vakarchuk is also the founder of “People of the Future” Charity Foundation.  In 2017-2019  the Foundation purchased equipment for Ukrainian hospitals in the Anti-terrorist Operation zone in Ukraine.

With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he began to travel with speeches to the military at the front and civilians in the centers of immigrants, performed at train stations, city squares, became a volunteer. His foundation helps hospitals in front-line cities, in particular those where are children and adults,  injured during Russian missile attacks, helps civilians in liberated cities and defenders of Ukraine.

In 2015 Serhii Sukhomlyn was elected as the Mayor of Zhytomyr. From the first days he proved himself as a balanced and purposeful leader who enjoys the respect of his subordinates and citizens, and immediately started implementing programs to develop Zhytomyr.
In 2020, he was re-elected for a second term in the first round with 51,3% of the votes.

During his term, significant expenditures were allocated from the local budget to ensure financial support and development of municipal health care institutions: more than UAH 38 million from the local budget (equipment, PCR laboratory, personal protective equipment and disinfection, hot meals for medical workers). During the active phase of COVID-19, Zhytomyr city hospitals registered up to 300 patients daily. All hospitals in Zhytomyr were provided with oxygen stations. Thanks to the personal standing of Serhii Sukhomlyn, the supply of oxygen was smooth and delay-free.

Zhytomyr actively cooperates with sister cities and partner cities. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Zhytomyr has become a humanitarian hub that not only received aid, but also provided logistics for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the de-occupied and most war-affected cities. In March and April, Zhytomyr residents in need received food packages and hygiene products.

Today Zhytomyr actively helps the de-occupied cities. In particular, Mykolaiv, Kupiansk, Shevchenkove received generators, water purification systems, food, warm clothes. The cooperation continues to this day.

Serhii Sukhomlyn is a demanding and unflinching leader; his team and the public treat him with respect, he is well regarded among colleagues and residents of Zhytomyr community.

For conscientious work, significant personal contribution to the development of the city of Zhytomyr he was awarded with diplomas of Zhytomyr Regional Council and Zhytomyr Regional State Administration.

DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN is Editor of Foreign Affairs and Peter G. Peterson Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously spent three years as Executive Editor of the magazine and served in the U.S. State Department, including as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. His narrative history of George Marshall’s post­–World War II mission to China, The China Mission, was published by WW Norton in 2018 and named a best book of the year by The Economist and an editor’s pick by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has also appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic.

Ben Driggs is President of Global High Growth Regions, with broad responsibilities for leading business across a diverse set of geographies that include China, India and Southeast Asia; Central and Eastern Europe; the Middle East and Central Asia; Africa; and Latin America.
Previously, Ben served as Vice President of Strategic Accounts and Corporate Development, where he played a leadership role for all efforts with 25 of our most important customers. These included major global retailers to oil and gas companies to logistics companies to aerospace manufacturers.

Prior to this role, Ben served in a variety of positions with Honeywell including President, Aerospace Aftermarket; Latin America President; Vice President, Airlines; Vice President, Aerospace Asia Pacific; and Vice President, Propulsion Engines.

Before joining Honeywell, Ben was an associate principal with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles, working in the industrial practice. Ben holds a master’s degree from Oxford University, where he was a Swanson Scholar and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, where he was also student body president and a Flinn Scholar. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese as well as English.

Edward Felsenthal is the Editor in Chief and Executive Chairman of TIME. He is TIME’s 18th top editor since its founding in 1923 and led the organization as Editor in Chief and Chief Executive Officer from 2018 to 2022. Under Felsenthal’s leadership, TIME has grown from a magazine and website into a global media company with a vastly expanded suite of products and platforms, returned to growth with its highest year-over-year revenue increases in well over a decade, and increased the impact, relevance and reach of its world-class journalism.

Today, in addition to its iconic magazine and digital platforms reaching 100 million people around the world, TIME includes an Emmy-award winning film and television division TIME Studios, a fast-growing global live events business built around its TIME100 and Person of
the Year franchises, an industry-leading web3 division, an award-winning branded content studio, the website-building platform TIME Sites, and the sustainability and climate-action platform CO2.com, and more. In 2022, Felsenthal was named one of Most Powerful People
in Media by The Hollywood Reporter.

Felsenthal joined TIME in April 2013 as editor of TIME digital, and led a major expansion of TIME’s digital footprint, including the establishment of a 24/7 newsroom and video operation. During that time, TIME’s audience tripled, with monthly video streams exceeding
100 million across platforms and social media followers exceeding 50 million.

In 2016, Felsenthal was named Group Digital Director of News and Lifestyle at Time Inc., a role in which he led digital content and growth across a dozen titles, including TIME, Health, MONEY, Real Simple, Southern Living, Travel & Leisure and Food & Wine.

Felsenthal began his career at The Wall Street Journal, rising to deputy managing editor in 2005 and serving as the founding editor of Personal Journal, where he led coverage that won two Pulitzer Prizes. Earlier in his career, he covered the U.S. Supreme Court in
the Journal’s Washington bureau.

In 2008, he was the founding executive editor of The Daily Beast, a role in which he built and managed a digital newsroom that quickly grew from a startup to a nationally known brand.

A native of Memphis, Felsenthal graduated from Princeton University. He has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a master’s in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts. He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and Tennessee.

Yaroslava Gres is a Ukrainian public figure, journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Head of the “Corruption Park” for the European Union Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine. Curator of the “Museum of News in Ukraine”. Co-founder of the “Gres Todorchuk PR” agency.

She was the world’s youngest editor of the Hello! magazine. In 2018, she was included in the rating of “100 most influential women in Ukraine” by Focus magazine.

Andriy Shevchenko, is a Ukrainian football manager, a former professional football player and a former politician. Shevchenko played as a striker for Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan, Chelsea and the Ukraine national team. He was head coach of Serie A club Genoa. Shevchenko became the Vice President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine on 17 November 2022.

Shevchenko is considered one of the most lethal strikers to ever play the game. He is ranked as the seventh top goalscorer in all European competitions with 67 goals. With a tally of 175 goals scored for Milan, he is the second most prolific player in the history of the club, and is also the all-time top scorer of the Derby della Madonnina (the derby between Milan and their local rivals Inter Milan) with 14 goals. Furthermore, he is the all-time top scorer for the Ukrainian national team with 48 goals.

Shevchenko’s career has been highlighted by many awards, the most prestigious of which was the Ballon d’Or in 2004 (becoming the third Ukrainian, after Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov, to receive it). He won the UEFA Champions League in 2003 with Milan, and he has also won various league and cup titles in Ukraine, Italy and England. He was also a Champions League runner-up in 2005 and 2008. He was named in the FIFA World XI for 2005. In 2004, he was named as one of the Top 100 greatest living footballers as part of FIFA’s 100th anniversary celebration.

In his international career, the striker led Ukraine as captain to the quarter-finals in their first ever FIFA World Cup appearance in 2006, and also took part at UEFA Euro 2012 on home soil.

He returned to football in 2016, as assistant coach of the Ukraine national team February to July, at the time led by Mykhaylo Fomenko. In July 2016, Shevchenko was appointed Ukraine’s head coach, and led the nation to the quarter-finals at UEFA Euro 2020.

Scott Joseph Kelly is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.

Kelly’s first spaceflight was as pilot of Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-103 in December 1999. This was the third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, and lasted for just under eight days. Kelly’s second spaceflight was as mission commander of STS-118, a 12-day Space Shuttle mission to the ISS in August 2007. Kelly’s third spaceflight was as a crewmember on Expedition 25/26 on the ISS. He arrived at the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-01M on October 9, 2010, and served as a flight engineer until he took over command of the station on November 25, 2010, at the start of Expedition 26. Expedition 26 ended on March 16, 2011, with the departure of Soyuz TMA-01M.

In November 2012, Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko were selected for a year-long mission to the ISS. Their year in space began with the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M on March 27, 2015, and they remained on the station for Expeditions 43, 44, 45, and 46. The mission ended on March 1, 2016, with the departure of Soyuz TMA-18M from the station.

Kelly retired from NASA on April 1, 2016. His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also a retired astronaut, and the junior U.S. senator from Arizona.

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany is the Financial Times’ world news editor, overseeing coverage of politics and the economy from the foreign bureaus. Prior to this role, she was the FT’s Paris bureau chief and the FT’s global private equity correspondent. Before joining the FT in 2012, she worked for Bloomberg News and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal in Paris and London, reporting on mergers and acquisitions, energy and European financial institutions.

A graduate of French business school HEC and a former associate at Paribas in Paris and New York, she won the ‘OneToWatch’ award from The Work Foundation’s WorkWorld Media Awards in 2006 for ‘Heat builds on Mittal to improve safety and wages’ following a reporting trip to Kazakhstan. She is the co-author of ‘Enron, la faillite qui ébranla l’Amérique,’ published in 2003.

Director, CEE & Transatlantic Public Policy. Marta joined Google in 2012. She leads the Public Policy & Government Relations Team in Central and Eastern Europe and Transatlantic Relations for Google Europe. Previously she was responsible for privacy & security policies in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Marta is an Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow. Graduate of the University of Cambridge and the University of Warsaw.

He is based in Amsterdam. In this capacity, Alex engages with stakeholders in the audiovisual industry—including representatives of the public, private, and non-profit sectors—in a wide range of territories, in support of their efforts to promote vibrant and sustainable creative ecosystems. Prior to moving to Amsterdam in 2020, Alex was based in Netflix’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. Before joining Netflix four years ago, Alex worked on technology policy matters for Google in the United States and in South & Southeast Asia. He has also worked in educational and not-for-profit organizations in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Alex completed his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and obtained a Master’s Degree from Princeton University.

Kersti Kaljulaid served as the President of the Republic of Estonia from 2016-2021. During her time in office, she made her presence felt in both her homeland and the international arena.

Previously she had been serving as a Member of the European Court of Auditors, advising Prime Minister Mart Laar and holding different top level positions in energy, investment banking and telecom sector. Genetic engineer and economist by education, she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center and the Council Chair of the University of Tartu from 2012 to 2016.

In summer 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed President Kaljulaid to the position of Global Advocate for the ‘Every Woman Every Child’ strategy on the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents around the world for the next two years. She was also the first Estonian to be featured in the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

Kersti Kaljulaid has become a sought-after speaker at high-level forums on digital, security and foreign-policy topics and more broadly for analysing and interpreting societal and economic change.

President Kaljulaid is a vocal advocate of human rights, rule of law, freedom of speech and democracy. One of the principles in the office of president has been the one she set out upon her inauguration: “I am never silent when our security is in question, when our freedoms are at stake or when those weaker than us are treated unjustly.”

As Executive Director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley continues his life’s work bridging political, religious and ethnic boundaries to champion economic development and education. At WFP, Mr. Beasley is putting to use four decades of leadership and communications skills to mobilise more financial support and public awareness for the global fight against hunger.

Zanny Minton Beddoes is the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. She is a renowned global economics expert, sought-after for her authoritative perspectives on the world economy. She previously worked at the IMF, and as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland.

Elina Svitolina is a Ukrainian tennis player, former world No. 3 who has set many national records. She has won 16 WTA tournaments including WTA Finals 2018 and Ukraine’s first ever Olympic medal in tennis at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games.

In 2019 Elina founded her Charitable Foundation in Ukraine with the main task to support young talents and develop tennis/sport in Ukraine. In 2022 at the invitation of the president Zelenskiy, Elina Svitolina became an ambassador of the fundraising platform United24.

Major General Kyrylo Budanov
Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine.
Since 2014, he has been taking part in the russo-Ukrainian war. He has been wounded several times. He has performed special tasks, the information about which is classified. He is full Cavalier of the Order “For Courage”.
A number of successful combat operations against the russian occupation forces were carried out under the direct leadership of Kyrylo Budanov. In particular, supply of ammunition, delivery of food, and evacuation of wounded servicemen from Mariupol surrounded by the enemy and liberation of Zmiyinyi Island from the invaders. In September 2022, Kyrylo Budanov took part in the operation on the largest POWs exchange between Ukraine and russia, when 215 Ukrainian defenders, including more than 100 warriors and commanders of “Azov” regiment, returned home.

Oleh Derevianko is a visionary business and social entrepreneur.
He is the Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Vision Officer of ISSP, a private international cybersecurity company founded in 2008 in Ukraine and currently operating globally while remaining a leader of the Ukrainian cybersecurity industry.

ISSP acted as the first responder to and investigator of many of the most sophisticated cyberattacks in history and was named by WIRED as ‘the go-to firm for victims of Ukraine’s cyberwar’.

Before founding ISSP, Oleh worked as CEO and Board Member in Ukrainian and international companies. In 2015-2016, Oleh Derevianko served as Deputy Minister and Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. As cybersecurity expert Oleh has presented at MIT, Stanford, Texas A&M, The Atlantic Council, The Aspen Institute, the NATO-Ukraine Platform on Countering Hybrid Warfare, many impactful international cybersecurity events, and has been referenced in two bestselling books on cybersecurity.

Krystina Waler is the Director of Ukrainian Initiatives at the Temerty Foundation. Most recently, Krystina was the Executive Director of Help Us Help Charity, an organization that helps venerable children and veterans across Ukraine.

She has lived and worked in Ukraine for various periods since 2005. Throughout this time, she has been involved in many humanitarian efforts there. Most notably, from 2014-2018, Krystina worked with the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine to coordinate and execute surgical missions that operated on Ukrainians who sustained traumatic facial and upper extremity injuries while fighting for Ukraine’s sovereignty in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. This initiative saw Canadian and Ukrainian medical professionals work together to reconstruct the bodies of hundreds of defenders of Ukraine and continues to this day.

In Canada, she has served as a member of the board of directors for the Children of Chornobyl Fund, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress – National, and the Canada-Ukraine Foundation among others.

Krystina holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto. In 2019 and 2021, Krystina was a candidate in the federal election in St. Catharines, Canada. She is passionate about supporting a free Ukraine and the uniting the global efforts to support Ukraine.

Chairman of the Charity Foundation «KOLO» in 2014-2017 and from 2019 to the present. Before a full-scale war, the foundation works in the areas of education, culture and medicine.
From February 24, 2022 аreas of activity were changed in accordance with the needs of wartime. During the war, the Foundation, together with the volunteer community, transferred more than 1,500 tons of humanitarian aid, more than 74,000 food kits were transferred in the Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhya, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. More than 2,500+ received evacuation assistance to Western Ukraine, 1,786 children and 945 guardians and accompanying persons were evacuated to Turkey as part of the “Childhood without War” project together with guardians.
In the medical direction: more than 35 ambulances were purchased, more than 200 pieces of medical equipment and consumables (anesthesia stations, ventilators, patient monitors, ultrasound machines and for the treatment of wounds with negative pressure (vacuum wound therapy, etc.) were transferred for more than 30 hospitals.
More than 40 institutions of the social sphere and educational institutions received generators of various capacities.
During the full-scale invasion, more than 150 cars, 10 tons of protective equipment and equipment, and 55 generators were transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces. More than 500 trainees from the Armed Forces have already completed training at the UAV control school, and 550 drones have been handed over.
Despite the military actions, the foundation implements projects for the preservation of cultural heritage and popularization of Ukrainian culture.

On December 9, 2022 was awarded with award of the President of Ukraine – “Golden Heart” .

Max Liashko is a CEO and Member of the Supervisory Board at Parimatch. As a top-manager and shareholder of an international sports betting major – born in Ukraine in 1994 – he utilizes his vast experience and unique skillset to steer the company’s dynamic growth and strategic restructuring, ensuring consistency of the company’s philosophy and sustainability of its vision globally.

Oleksii Reznikov is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who has served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine since 4 November 2021.

Reznikov previously has served in several other positions in the government of Ukraine; Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration from 2016 to 2018, and deputy mayor-secretary of the Kyiv City Council from June 2014 to December 2015. Reznikov also served as Head of Ukraine’s National delegation in Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe from 2015 to 2016, and was chosen by President Volodymyr Zelensky on 5 May 2020 to represent Ukraine in the working political subgroup at the Trilateral Contact Group regarding a settlement to the War in Donbas.

Oleksiy Chernyshov is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician, Head of the Executive Board of National Joint Stock Company “Naftogaz of Ukraine” since November 2022, Minister for Communities and Territories Development from March 2020 to November 2022.

Oleksiy Chernyshov did his undergraduate studies at Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”, receiving a degree in Economics in 1999. He then proceeded to Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University to study Law until 2002.

In 1999, he completed a professional course on the standards of the International Project Management Institute at Westinghouse in Pennsylvania.

In the early 2000s, Chernyshov’s interest in commercial real estate and development led to the implementation of several successful projects in Kharkiv, after which cooperation with AVEC Concern began. In 2004 Chernyshov – Vice President of the Development, since November 2005 – President of Concern and AVEC Group. From 2008 to 2013 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Concern and the AVEC Group. Chernyshov forms a portfolio of new commercial real estate projects with a total area of 350,000 m². The businessman attracts significant foreign partners working in FDI (foreign direct investments) in commercial real estate development, including UNIQA Real Estate AG, New Century Holdings (NCH), ECE and others.

Oleksandr Kubrakov was born in 1982 in the city of Pershotravensk, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Education:

1999-2004 – Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (specialty – marketing)

Activity:

2003-2004 – Economist at the Marketing Department of the Plastic Cards Department of Joint-Stock Company Commercial Bank “Pravex-Bank”

2004-2006 – Research and Development Manager, P5 Commerce LLC

2006-2007 – CJSC “Kyivstar”, Head of Market Monitoring

2007-2009 – JSCB “Finance and Credit”, Head of Strategic Marketing

2009-2011 – PJSC “Kyivstar”, Head of Fixed Business Marketing Unit

2014-2016 – Director of the Directorate for Management of Transport Infrastructure Projects at the Municipal Enterprise of the Executive Body of the Kyiv City State Administration “Kyiv Investment Agency”

2015-2016 – Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Head of the Project Office

2016-2019 – Director, Deputy Director of LLC “City for People”

August 2019 – December 2019 – People’s Deputy of Ukraine

November 2019 – May 2021 – Chairman of the State Agency of Motor Roads of Ukraine

May 20, 2021, – appointed Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine

December 1, 2022 – appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine – Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine.

Oleksandr Senkevych was born on February, 4, 1982 in Mykolaiv.

He has two higher educations. In 2004 he graduated from Mykolaiv State University named after Petro Mohyla, and in 2007 – from Educational-scientific complex «Institute for applied system analysis» of the National technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv polytechnical institute».

His labour activity he started on December 2002, while being a lecturer in Mykolaiv branch of the private enterprise «Computer academy «SHAG».

From June, 3, 2005 till November, 2015 he has been working in «Kvadrologic» LLC. First he took up the post of engineer-programmer. From September, 2005 till December, 2006 he was personnel and communal services director. On December 2006 he became the head of «Kvadrologic» LLC. He has been working as the head of this enterprise till November 2015.

In 2014 in order to take an active part in Mykolaiv city life he founded a public organization «Golos gromady».

On November, 24, 2015 he was elected as Mykolaiv City Mayor.

Oleksandr is the youngest mayor of the regional centre of Ukraine. The main his task, as a mayor of a half a million city, is transformation of Mykolaiv into the best city for the citizens’ life. In his opinion, it is needed to declare about competitive city ambitions as a relevant player on the world investment market. With the purpose of tasks fulfilment, he introduces new effective standards of the city economy management, including open and rational use of Mykolaiv budget, setting up a system of quality and available services for the city citizens, investments attraction.

Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who serves as mayor of Kyiv and head of the Kyiv City State Administration, having held both offices since June 2014. Klitschko is a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and a former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament. He became actively involved in Ukrainian politics in 2005 and combined this with his professional boxing career until his retirement from the sport in 2013.[9][14][15] He holds a Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) from Kyiv University’s Physical Science Department.

As a boxer, Klitschko won multiple world heavyweight championships. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title from 1999 to 2000, the Ring magazine title from 2004 to 2005, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) title twice between 2004 and 2013. Overall, he defeated 15 opponents in world heavyweight title fights,[17][18] and made 12 successful title defences. In 2011, Vitali and his younger brother Wladimir Klitschko entered the Guinness World Records as the pair of brothers with most world heavyweight title fight wins (30 at the time; 40 as of 2020). From 2006 until 2015, Vitali and Wladimir (also a multiple world champion) dominated heavyweight boxing, a period widely known as the “Klitschko Era” of the division. Klitschko’s last fight was in 2012, but he remained the WBC heavyweight champion at age 42 when he announced his retirement in December 2013.

Klitschko formally began his political career in 2006 when he placed second in the Kyiv mayoral race. In 2010, he founded the party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) and was elected into parliament for this party in 2012. He was a leading figure in the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests, and he announced his possible candidacy for the Ukrainian presidency but later withdrew and endorsed the eventual winner Petro Poroshenko. He was elected Mayor of Kyiv on 25 May 2014.[23] He headed the election list of the winner of the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, but he gave up his parliamentary seat to stay on as Mayor of Kyiv. On 28 August 2015 the UDAR party merged into Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Klitschko thus became the new party leader. Klitschko was reelected as mayor on 15 November 2015. Klitschko revived UDAR, and left Petro Poroshenko Bloc with it, in May 2019 and simultaneously announced that UDAR would take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election autonomously. UDAR however failed to win any seats.

Klitschko was re-elected to a second term as mayor in 2020, securing 50.52% of the votes in the first round of voting and thus avoiding a run-off. Following the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Klitschko and President Volodymyr Zelensky have been internationally praised as symbols of Ukrainian resistance.

Andy Hunder is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, representing more than 600 US and international investors and corporate members.

A native Londoner, Andy was a TV presenter on a leading Ukrainian television channel. He headed the Public Relations department at Ukrainian Mobile Communications (now Vodafone Ukraine) and subsequently was External Affairs and Communications Director at GlaxoSmithKline with responsibility for Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Hunder was the director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, regularly delivering analysis and comment on Ukrainian current affairs on BBC, CNN, SKY, Bloomberg TV, ITV, Al Jazeera, and others. He has spoken on Ukrainian affairs at the UK Houses of Parliament, House of Lords, Oxford University, London School of Economics, and University College London.

From 2016 till 2020, Andy Hunder served as Treasurer of AmChams in Europe, the umbrella organization for American Chambers of Commerce in 43 countries throughout Europe, accounting for more than $ 1.1 trillion in investment on both sides of the Atlantic.

Andy is a member of Ukraine’s Business Ombudsman Council, National Reforms Council, and National Investment Council, and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Investment Promotion Office UkraineInvest.

Yuliya Badritdinova, Managing Director of McDonald’s Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. McDonald’s is a leading trusted food-service company in all 3 countries with more than 17,000 employees in corporate restaurants and restaurants of franchise partners.
Yuliya has been working at McDonald’s for more than ten years. In her previous leadership role at McDonald’s Ukraine, Yuliya was responsible for the Marketing, Consumer & Business Insights, Corporate Relations functions, and strategic planning across the company. She became a Managing Director of McDonald’s Ukraine in April 2019 and in 2022 her role was extended to 3 countries.
Yuliya is a strong supporter of charities and social causes. She has a variety of experiences serving in not-for-profit Boards. She is a strong supporter of national and local cultural institutions and projects.
Yuliya is an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in Ukraine since June 2019 advocating for transparent partnership between business and state.
Yuliya is the Chair of Ronald McDonald House Charities Board of Governors in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, RMHC Ukraine activated special programs to support communities and hospitals, the purchase of necessary medical equipment, and providing food kits for Ukrainians in the most affected regions for around 95 mil UAH. With the help of more than 400 McDonald’s volunteers the Charity produced and delivered over 160 000 Food kits and 420 VACs that speed up the healing of complex wounds. At the same time the RMHC Ukraine continues supporting opened Family Rooms in the hospitals and working on the opening of the 1st Ronald McDonald House in Kyiv.
A native Ukrainian, Yuliya graduated from the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with an Economics degree and the Charted Institute of Marketing.

Born on October 26, 1974 in the village of Dobrovody, Zbarazhsky district, Ternopil region. In 1991 he entered the law faculty of Chernivtsi State University. In May 2007, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. In 2010, focused on the Party of Arseny Yatsenyuk’s Front of Change project, where headed the party control committee. In the 2012 parliamentary elections, became deputy head of the Batkivshchyna headquarters, and in December became the leader of the Yatsenyuk group in the Batkivshchyna faction and first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on regulatory issues. On June 2013, after the “Front of Changes” association and the All-Ukrainian association “Bat’kivshchina”, was elected one of the deputy leaders of the “ Bat’kivshchina ”. March 21, 2014 was appointed head of the board of Oschadbank.

On 10 October 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, officially introduced to the National Bank of Ukraine its newly elected Governor, Andriy Pyshnyy.

Dr Werner Hoyer is the President of the European Investment Bank. He was appointed on 1 January 2012 and was re-appointed for a second term in office, with effect from 1 January 2018.

Dr Hoyer has overseen a significant expansion and transformation of the Bank. One of the most notable successes under his tenure has been the European Fund for Strategic Investments, a key initiative to foster job creation and economic growth in the EU.

Under Dr Hoyer’s leadership, the EIB has also consolidated its position as the leading multilateral provider of climate finance worldwide. In 2019, the EIB set a world precedent in the fight against climate change by announcing that it will end financing for fossil fuel energy projects by the end of 2021 and support €1 trillion of climate action and environmentally sustainable investment in the decade to 2030.

tephanie Mehta is CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures, the business media company that publishes Fast Company and Inc. She previously spent nearly four years as editor-in-chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital, and live journalism. Under her leadership, Fast Company was a National Magazine Award finalist in the design category three years in a row.

Mehta began her career as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, before moving to The Wall Street Journal to cover small business, venture capital and technology.

She has held senior writing and editing positions at Fortune, Bloomberg Media and Vanity Fair, where she coedited the annual New Establishment and curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit.

She is the author of Fast Company Innovation by Design: Creative Ideas that Transform the Way We Live and Work, published in September 2021. She serves on the boards of the Women’s Forum of New York, the American Society of Magazine Editors, and Airbel Impact Lab, the research and innovation arm of the International Rescue Committee.

Mehta received a B.A. in English and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. A Chicago-area native, she now lives with her husband and two daughters in Scarsdale, New York.