Igor V. Burakovsky
 Igor
V. Burakovsky graduated from Kiev State Taras Shevchenko University in
1980. Degrees: Candidate of Economic Sciences (1985), Doctor of Economic
Sciences (1999). In April 2002 he became Director of the Institute for
Economic Research and Policy Consulting. He participated in several international
research projects - in Great Britain (Birmingham University, Center For
Russian and East European Studies); Japan (Economic Planning Agency, Japan
Institute for International Affairs), USA (Fulbright Scholar, Stanford
University), etc. Igor Burakovsky has been actively involved in economic
policy consulting in different capacities. His research interests are
economic reforms in Ukraine, international trade and trade policy, global
and regional economic cooperation.
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Petru Veverita
 Petru
Veverita is an expert in public finance. He researches public financial
management and fiscal policies in transition countries as well as in developed
economies. He is currently Managing Director at the Foundation for Social
and Economic Research-CASE Moldova. Previously, he held various positions:
Chairman of the Banks Association of Moldova (2004-2007); Chief of Party
in the USAID-financed Fiscal Reform project (consultancy in Macroeconomic
and Fiscal policy to the Government of the Republic of Moldova). In 2000-2001,
he was Deputy Minister of Economy and Reforms of the Republic of Moldova.
Prior to that, he held the position of Director of the Parliamentary Centre
for Budgetary and Financial Analysis, as well as several senior positions
in the Budget Department of the Ministry of Finance.
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James Greene
 James
Greene headed the NATO Liaison Office Ukraine from 2004-2009, where he
helped shape NATO-Ukraine cooperation and support Euro-Atlantic reforms.
He has catalyzed and managed numerous international programs to help Ukraine
transform into a prosperous, secure, European democracy.
In 2003-2004, Mr. Greene co-directed a project on NATO membership criteria
with the Razumkov Center, a Ukrainian think tank. From 1999-2002, he worked
in Brussels on NATO’s cooperation policy with Ukraine and Russia. He served
as a US naval officer from 1990 to 2002, with assignments in aviation
and international affairs.
Mr. Greene currently advises on democratization and development initiatives
for Eastern Europe. He is a Senior Advisor to the US-Ukraine Business
Council and the founder of Effective Engagement Strategies LLC.
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Michel Duray
 Since
July 2009, Michel Duray is Head of the Outreach Countries Section in the
Public Diplomacy Division at NATO HQ. From 2008 to 2009, he served as
Director of NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine. Since
1997, Mr. Duray has taken an active part in the development of NATO-Ukraine
cooperation (economic security seminars, language retraining program for
former military, courses on planning and budgeting, base closure related
initiatives). Michel Duray held various positions at NATO. He is also
a visiting lecturer in French, Belgian, Ukrainian and Russian universities
and Defence Academies, teaching courses on Defence and Security issues.
He published several articles on Russian political economy and war in
the Balkans in the 90’s, as well as on NATO-Ukraine relations.
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Andriy Yermolayev
 Andriy
Yermolayev, a political scientist, is currently Director of the Centre
of Social Studies “Sophia”.
From 1994 to 1996, he was the principal consultant at the information
and analysis unit of the President’s administration. He also headed the
information and analysis unit at the Pan-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation
“Our Future” (1996-1997). From 1997 to 1999, he worked as an expert in
the office of Ukraine’s Prime-Minister, Valeriy Pustovoitenko.
He graduated from the Department of Philosophy of the Kyiv State Taras
Shevchenko University (1992).
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Andrzej Karkoszka
 Dr.
Andrzej Karkoszka, Ph. D. in Political Science, is at present a Director,
CEE ADS, at the PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has worked in the Polish Institute
of International Affaires, the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute and the Institute for EastWest Security Studies, New York. He
was a professor in the George C. Marshall European Security Studies Center,
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and a Research Director in the Geneva Centre for
the Democratic Control of Armed Forces /DCAF/, and also an ajunct professor
at the Polish National Defence Academy. He has lectured at the SHAPE School
in Oberammergau (Germany), NATO College (Rome), Baltic Defence College
(Tartu). He has held positions in the Polish government as a member of
delegations to the UN GA, to the Vienna MBFR Negotiations, to the Conference
on Disarmament in Geneva, in the UN SG Group of Governmental Experts on
Non-Nuclear Zones, UNIDIR Experts Groups on Outer Space and on Verification
of Disarmament. He was a Director of the MoD Department of International
Security, Chairman of the Reform Commission of the Ministry of National
Defence, Deputy Chairman of the Polish Team for NATO accession negotiations,
Secretary of State-First Deputy Minister of National Defence and, recently,
a Director of the first Polish Strategic Defence Review. He published
on arms control, European security, and international relations.
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Iulian Chifu
 Iulian
Chifu is a professor at the National School of Political and Administrative
Studies Bucharest. He is also Director of the Conflict Prevention and
Early Warning Centre, a non-governmental and non-profit organization with
a research focus in international relations, conflict prevention, crisis
management and early warning. The Center has branches in various countries
and operates internationally. Iulian Chifu is an expert in conflict analysis,
crisis decision-making and post-Soviet Space.
He published several books: Diplomatic war under the Kremlin's shadow
(1996), Russia’s Foreign Policy in Putin’s Era (2007), Crisis management
in Transitional Societies (2007), „The Breakthrough Crisis” of a quick
solution in Transnistria (2008) and The Russian-Georgian War, a cognitive
institutional approach of the crisis decisionmaking (2009, with Oazu Nantoi
and Oleksandr Sushko), Moldova on the way to democracy and stability (2005),
The Black Sea Region: a Security Minefield or a partnership road? (2009),
and many others.
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George Logush
 George
Logush is Vice-President of Kraft Foods and Area Director for Ukraine,
Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He is also a Member of the Board of Management
of Kraft Foods for Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa (from 2002). In
1995, he started Kraft business in Ukraine. From 1994 to 1995, he was
Country Director for KPMG/Barents Group in Ukraine, and from 1992 to 1994,
he was Country Manager for RJ Reynolds Tobacco International in Ukraine.
George Logush led privatization, acquisition of production facilities
in Lviv and Kremenchuk (largest privatizations in Ukraine at that time).
He managed Lviv joint venture with State Property Fund of Ukraine.
Prior to work in Ukraine, he was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial
Officer, Garden State Health Plan (HMO) in the US (1982-1992). Concurrently,
he was Assistant and Associate Dean, Director of Institute of International
Business, Chairman of several Departments, Tenured Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Business Administration of Fordham University in NY
City (1975-1992). He founded and directed Institute of International Business
with exchange programs in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, other countries.
From 1972 to 1992, George Logush was a consultant in a large number of
institutions: Citicorp, Farrell Lines, American Cyanamid, United Nations
Center on Transnational Corporations, etc.
He holds a Master’s degree and PhD from New York University.
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Ilgar Mammadov
 Ilgar
Mammadov (Ilqar Məmmədov) is an Azerbaijani politician. In December 2008
he co-founded the RespublikaÇi Alternativ (REAL) – a civic initiative
with republicanist agenda opposed to President Aliyev. A graduate from
Moscow State Lomonosov University (1993) and Central European University
in Budapest (1997), he currently sits on several international advisory
boards including OSI-Azerbaijan (Soros Foundation), the Revenue Watch
Institute, and the US GMF Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation. Mr.
Mammadov is also directing the Azerbaijani segment of the Council of Europe
network of schools of political studies.
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Ihor Mitiukov
 Ihor
Mitiukov is Morgan Stanley Country Head, Ukraine. Mr Mitiukov was Director
General of the Financial Policy Institute, a Ukrainian non-governmental
organization which he founded in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, Ihor Mitiukov
served as Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland. From 1997 to 2001, he was Minister of Finance for
Ukraine. Under his leadership, Ukraine entered the international capital
markets in 1997. Mr Mitiukov was Ukraine's Special Representative (with
Vice-Prime Ministerial status) to the European Union in Brussels from
1995 to 1997. In 1994, he was successively Deputy Governor of the National
Bank of Ukraine and Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine for banking and finance.
Mr Mitiukov graduated from the Cybernetics Department, Kyiv State University
and has a Ph.D. in Economics (1985) from the Institute of Economy, Academy
of Sciences (Ukraine).
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Suren Movsisyan
 Suren
Movsisyan is a Senior Researcher at the International Center for Human
Development in Yerevan, Armenia. He received his first Master’s degree
in Political Science from the American University of Armenia in 2005,
and his second Master’s Degree in Diplomatic Studies from the University
of Leicester, UK in 2007.
In 2008 he was appointed to the position of Head of America Department
within the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia. In early 2009
he left the office and continued working with ICHD. He is currently involved
in different projects on regional security and cooperation, conflict resolution.
Suren Movsisyan’s recent publications include “Decision Making by Consensus
in International Organizations as a Form of Negotiations” (Noravank Foundation,
2008), “Choice of Mediator in the Context of Conflicting parties” (Noravank
Foundation, 2008), “Assessing Hidden Dangers of Prenegotiations” (Noravank
Foundation, 2008).
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Oleksandr Pavlyuk
 Dr.
Oleksandr Pavlyuk is Head of External Co-operation at the Secretariat
of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Before
joining the OSCE, he was Director of the Kyiv Centre of the EastWest Institute
(1997-2001), and worked as Lecturer at the Rivne State Pedagogical Institute
(1987-1990), Assistant to the State Advisor of Ukraine on Public Policy
(1992), and Assistant and Associate Professor of History at the University
of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (1993-1998).
Oleksandr Pavlyuk is author of the monograph “Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence
and the U.S. Policy (1917-1923)” (Kyiv: UKMA, 1996, in Ukrainian) and
editor of two books “Building Security in the New States of Eurasia” (New
York: M.E. Sharpe, 2000), and “The Black Sea Region: Cooperation and Security
Building” (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004). He has published numerous articles,
including in Foreign Affairs, on European security and Ukrainian foreign
policy.
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Gulshan Pashayeva
 Gulshan
Pashayeva is Head of foreign policy analysis department at the Centre
for Strategic Studies, a Baku-based think-tank, since July 2009. She worked
for United Nations Office in Azerbaijan for almost eight years: National
Program Coordinator for the UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for
Women) regional project “Women for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
in the Caucasus” (2001-2006) and Public Information Associate for UNDPI
(United Nations Department for Public Information) office in Azerbaijan.
She also directed the Conflict Research Center, a non-governmental organization
in Baku and taught at the different state and private universities in
Azerbaijan (1996-2001). Ms. Pashayeva researches language policy, conflict
resolution and security issues.
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Victor Pynzenyk
 Victor
Pynzenyk, Honoured Economist of Ukraine, Honoured Doctor of the National
University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and Ternopil Academy of National Economy.
He graduated from the department of economics of Lviv State Ivan Franko
University (1975); completed postgraduate studies at the Lviv University
(1979); and received a doctoral degree from Moscow State M. V. Lomonosov
University (1989). He worked as an assistant professor, senior researcher,
professor and chairman of the department of economics and national economy
at the Lviv State Ivan Franko University. He was Minister of Economy of
Ukraine, Vice Prime-Minister for Economics (10.1992-08.1993). Starting
from 1993, he is Head of the Ukrainian Reform Support Foundation. From
1994 to 1997, he held the position of the First Vice Prime-Minister for
Economic Reforms, Vice Prime-Minister of Ukraine. Starting from 1997,
he is Head of Reforms and Order Party. He was Minister of Finance for
two terms 2005-2006 and 2007-2009. He was MP for four terms (1991-2005).
In November 2007, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (VI
convocation).
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Alexander Pivovarsky
 Alexander
Pivovarsky is a Senior Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development, where he leads economic analysis of Ukraine, policy dialogue
with the Ukrainian authorities on the financial sector issues, and coordinates
economic assessments of countries in the Eastern Europe and Caucasus region.
He has worked on the region-wide joint IFI initiative to help stabilize
European banking groups operating in the emerging European countries and
currently represents the EBRD in the economic pillar of the EU’s new Eastern
Partnership policy initiative. From 2001 to mid-2008, he worked at the
International Monetary Fund as macroeconomist for various countries in
Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Central Asia. He co-authored
the EBRD’s 2009 Transition Report: Transition in Crisis? and is the author,
together with Jeffrey Sachs, of Economics of Transition: Lessons for Ukraine
(Kyiv: Osnovy Publishers, 1997). His operational work at the EBRD is focused
primarily on the financial sector issues. He is a Ukrainian national,
graduated from the University of Kyiv in 1993, and holds a Ph.D. in public
policy from Harvard University (2001).
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Igor Pokanevych
 Dr
Igor Pokanevych is a medical doctor specialized in surgery. He worked
in Kyiv and Kyiv district hospitals. After receiving a Master’s degree
in Public Health from Boston University, he worked at the World Bank.
There, he worked on the issues of communicable diseases and the strengthening
of health systems in Ukraine. Since 2006, he is Head of the World Health
Organization Country Office in Ukraine.
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Petro Poroshenko
 Petro
Poroshenko, honoured economist of Ukraine, Order of Merit (2nd and 3rd
Degree), Certificate of Honour of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ukraine’s
State Award in science and technology, International P. Orlyk Award, author
of several publications, MP (3rd, 4th and 5th convocations).
Petro Poroshenko graduated from the department of international relations
and international law (specialization: economist-specialist in international
affairs) of Kyiv State T. Shevchenko University (1989). He completed his
post-graduate studies and later was an assistant at the Chair of international
economic research of the Kyiv State T. Shevchenko University (1989 – 1992).
In 2002 he received a Ph.D. in law. He is the author of the monograph
“State Corporate Rights Management in Ukraine. Theory of Establishment
of Legal Relations” and of several scientific publications, as well as
the co-author of a text-book on contemporary international economic relations.
From 1993 – 1998, he was Director General of the Private Joint Stock Company
“Ukrprominvest”. He was elected to the parliament (various periods) and
served as Head of the Subcommittee of the Finance and Banking Committee
(1998-2002 and 2006), Chairman of the Budget Committee (2002-2005).
Since 1999, he is a Member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.
He held the positions of Deputy Head of the Council of the National Bank
of Ukraine (2000-2004), Secretary of the National Security and Defense
Council of Ukraine (2005). In February 2007, he was elected as Head of
the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine. Since October 2009, he holds
the position of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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Marcin Swiecicki
 Marcin
Swiecicki is Director of EC/UNDP Blue Ribbon Analytical and Advisory Centre
in Kyiv, since March 2007. From 2002 to 2005, he was Coordinator of Economic
and Environmental Activities at the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. Previously, he served as an Advisor to the
President of Lithuania on Macroeconomic Reforms (Sept. 2000 – Feb. 2001).
In Poland, he also held the positions of Undersecretary of State of Ministry
of Economy, responsible for the accession of Poland to the EU (1999– 2000),
Minister for Foreign Economic Relations (co-authoring the Polish stabilization
plan - the Balcerowicz plan, 1989-91) and Mayor of the City of Warsaw
(1994–99). He was Member of Parliament (1989–91 and 1993–96). Visiting
Scholar and Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University (1984-85), Marcin Swiecicki
holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the Institute of Planning in Warsaw (1981).
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Dmitry Sorokin
 Dmitry
Sorokin, Doctor of Economics, is a professor and corresponding member
of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds the position of the First
Deputy Director at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of
Sciences. Prior to that, he served as Head of the Macroeconomic Regulation
Department at Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation.
His research interests are political economy, problems of ownership, economic
policy, as well as transition processes and formation of new institutional
systems of post-Soviet economies. He graduated from the Moscow Institute
of Economics and Statistics.
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Oleksandr Sushko
 Oleksandr
Sushko has been working as Research Director at the Institute For Euro-Atlantic
Co-operation (Kyiv) since June 2006. Prior to that, he had been the coordinator
of the Monitoring Programme (1999-2000), political analyst (1998-1999),
Director of the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine,
Kyiv (2000-2006). He holds a PhD in Political Science (International relations,
1998). Mr Sushko was a Visiting Fellow at Freedom House and Monterey Centre
for Nonproliferation Studies (USA) in January-February 2002. His fields
of interest include the European integration, EU-Ukraine relations, NATO-Ukraine
relations, Ukrainian foreign and domestic policies and security studies.
Oleksandr Sushko is an active participant of the Eastern Partnership Civil
Society Forum and initiator of projects on the freedom of movement in
Europe, such as Civic initiative “Europe without Barriers”.
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Pirkka Tapiola
 Pirkka
Tapiola is Senior Adviser for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in the Policy
Unit of the former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security
Policy, Dr Javier Solana.
Mr Tapiola is a career member of the Finnish Diplomatic Service, from
which he is currently on a leave of absence. His past assignments have
included Deputy Head of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Latvia in the mid-1990s and Deputy Head of
Mission of the Finnish Embassy to Thailand (also accredited to Burma/Myanmar,
Cambodia and Laos). Immediately prior to joining the Policy Unit in November
2004, Mr Tapiola served as Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Finland
in Kiev, Ukraine.
Mr Tapiola holds a Masters Degree in Political Science/International Relations
from the University of Helsinki. His languages are Finnish, English, French,
Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian and German.
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Borys Tarasyuk
 Borys
Tarasyuk, Member of Parliament (2002-2005, 2006, 2007-till now), Chairman
of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration. A carrier diplomat,
since 1975 he held several high-level positions: Permanent Representative
to the UN (1981-1986), Ambassador in Brussels (BENELUX, NATO, WEU, 1995-1998),
Deputy Foreign Minister (1992-1994), First Deputy (1994-1995) and two
terms Foreign Minister of Ukraine (1998-2000 and 2005-2007). Since 1992,
he has the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Since May 2003, he is Chairman of the party “People’s Movement of Ukraine”
(Rukh) and is currently member of Our Ukraine Block.
Borys Tarasyuk is the Founder and Director of the think-tank Institute
of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation.
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Dimitrios Triantaphyllou
 Dr.
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou is Director General of the International Centre
for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) since January 2006. He is also Assistant
Professor of International Relations at the University of the Aegean in
Rhodes. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University
of California, Berkeley and an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations
from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
He was previously Special Advisor at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
of the Hellenic Republic (2004-2006); Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic
Observatory of the European Institute at the LSE (2003-2004); Senior Research
Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the European Union, Paris
(2001-2003); Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of
the Western European Union, Paris (1999-2001); Deputy Director of the
Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens
(1996-99); and Foreign Policy Advisor to a member of the European Parliament
(1995).
He has written and edited a number of books and articles pertaining to
foreign policy and international relations. He is also Associate Editor
of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, a member of
the Greek-Turkish Forum and a member of the Governing Board of the European
Studies Institute which is based in Moscow.
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Mats Hellström
 Mats
Hellström is Chairman of Baltic Network for Adult Learning and a member
of Advisory Board at Globe Forum. Since 2005, he is also a member of High-Level
Advisory Group at Global Subsidies Initiative. From 2002 to 2007, he was
Governor of the Province of Stockholm. Later, he served as Chairman of
the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (2002-2008). Mats Hellström
held several ministerial and other high-level positions: Sweden's Ambassador
to Germany (1996-2001); Minister for Foreign Trade (European Union Affairs
and Nordic Cooperation) (1994-1996); Vice-Chairman and Leader of the Social
Democratic Group in the Parliamentary EU Delegation (1992-1994); Minister
for Agriculture, with responsibility for Nordic cooperation (1986-1991);
Minister for Foreign Trade in the Swedish Cabinet (1983-1986); Member
of the Swedish United Nations Delegation (various periods from 1969 to
1982); Member of Parliament (various periods from 1969-1996).
Mats Hellström holds a M.A. from the University of Stockholm. He also
taught Economics at the University of Stockholm (1965-1969).
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Olexandr Chalyi
 Famous
public figure, Oleksandr Chalyi holds a diplomatic rank of Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine. He was awarded the Order
of Merit (3rd Degree). He is a Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine and holds a
PhD in Law. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Foreign Advisor to the President
of Ukraine and State Secretary on European integration at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2001-2004). In 2001, he was Permanent Representative
of Ukraine to the Council of Europe. He also held the positions of First
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (Member of Board of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine) (1998-2001), Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Romania (1995-1998), Head of the Treaties
and Legal Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
(1993 - 1995). Oleksandr Chalyi is member of the Supervisory Board of
the International Centre for Policy Studies (Ukraine).
He holds a degree in international relations and international law from
the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (1977). He is fluent in
English and Portuguese.
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Traian Chebeleu
 Traian
Chebeleu is a career diplomat. Since 1964, he has served in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Romania, mainly dealing with international organisations.
He also held the positions of State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (1992), Diplomatic Adviser (1993-1996) and Spokesman for the President
of Romania. From 2001 to 2005, Traian Chebeleu was the Ambassador of Romania
to Austria and from 2008 to 2009 he was Special Representative of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Black Sea Issues.
He joined the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organisation on 1 May 2009,
and currently holds the positions of Deputy Secretary General.
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Valeri Chechelashvili
 Valeri
Chechelashvili is Secretary General of the Organisation for Democracy
and Economic Development – GUAM. Since 1989 he has been in the diplomatic
service of Georgia. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, he served
as an ambassador of Georgia to the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and the
Russian Federation. He held several high-level positions in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, including the position of the Deputy Foreign
Minister of Georgia (1998-2000). From 2000 to 2004, he was Secretary General
of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
Valeri Chechelashvili received several awards, such as the Order of Merit
(1st Degree) awarded by the President of Ukraine and the Medal for the
“Contribution to International Cooperation” awarded by the Ministry of
Interior of Ukraine.
Valeri Chechelashvili holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in International
Economy from the Kiev State University. He wrote extensively on regional
economic cooperation and international relations and published in Turkey,
Romania, Ukraine and Georgia.
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Stephan De Spiegeleire
 Stephan
De Spiegeleire is working primarily in the areas of network-centrism,
NATO and European defence transformation, and European Homeland Security.
He has worked for the RAND corporation for nearly ten years (five years
in the US and almost five years in the Netherlands), interrupted by stints
at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Germany) and the Western European
Union’s Institute for Security Studies (France). Starting out as a Soviet
specialist, Stephan has branched out into a several fields concerning
international security policy, all related to international security and
defence. Stephan is currently working towards a Ph.D at the Political
Science Department of the University of California (US). He also teaches
at Webster University in Leiden.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk
 Arseniy
Yatsenyuk is an MP and member of the Parliamentary Committee on Public
Health. He is Leader of the Party “Front Zmin”. In 2007, he established
Open Ukraine Foundation. From 2007 to 2008, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was Speaker
of Verkhovna Rada. Previously, he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs
of Ukraine (March - December 2007). Prior to that he held the following
posts: First Deputy Chief of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine,
representative of the President of Ukraine to the Cabinet of Ministers
of Ukraine (September 2006 - March 2007); Minister of Economy of Ukraine
(September 2005 - August 2006); First Deputy Governor of the Odessa region
(March 2005 - September 2005); Acting Chairman of the National Bank of
Ukraine (June 2004 - December 2004); First Deputy Chairman of the National
Bank of Ukraine (January 2003 - June 2004); Minister of Economy of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea (November 2001 - January 2003); Acting Minister
of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (September 2001 - November
2001); adviser to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman of the board of the “AVAL”
Joint-Stock Postal Pensionary Bank (December 1998 - September 2001). Mr.
Yatsenyuk holds a PhD in Economics from the Ukrainian Bank Academy. In
2001 he graduated from the Chernivtsi Trade-Economic Institute of Kyiv
Trade-Economic University, and in 1996 from the Chernivtsi State University,
faculty of law.
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