Kyiv Security Forum 2019

The Kyiv Security Forum, organized by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation, will take place on April 11-12. This year, the Forum will gather a record number of participants — over 1000. Among them are high-ranking officials of Ukrainian state and state leadership, diplomats, and esteemed experts from over 20 countries.

The title of this year’s Forum is “Restless Wave: the Strategic Choice of Ukraine and the West”. The image of a “restless wave” is a reference to John McCain’s book of the same name, whose legacy, and support for Ukraine in particular, we look to honor at this year’s Forum.

The topics of conversations for the Forum’s 15 panel discussions: the strategic choice of Ukraine and the West and the political, economic, security and cultural interdependence between Ukraine and the Western world.

Video of the 12th Kyiv Security Forum (11.04.2019)

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Video of the 12th Kyiv Security Forum (12.04.2019)

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Kyiv Security Forum 2019

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Speakers KSF 2019

All speakers

Mykhailo BASARAB

Political scientist

Alina INAYEH

Director of the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, The Bucharest Marshall Fund Office

Celeste WALLANDER

United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Petro POROSHENKO

President of Ukraine in 2014-19

Melinda HARING

Senior Community Engagement Advisor at Razom for Ukraine, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center

Amb. Stephen SESTANOVICH

Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor at Columbia University, United States Ambassador-at-Large for the former Soviet Union in 1997-2001

Arsen AVAKOV

Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in 2014-21

Amb. John HERBST

Director of Eurasia Center of the Atlantic Council, United States Ambassador to Ukraine in 2003-06

Dr. Nils SCHMID

Member of the German Parliament (Bundestag), Foreign Policy Speaker of the Social Democratic Party of Germany

Elmar BROK

Member of the European Parliament in 1979-2019

Timothy SNYDER

Historian, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University

Brian WHITMORE

Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center

Amanda PAUL

Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre

Pavlo PETRENKO

Minister of Justice of Ukraine in 2014-2019

Nadia MCCONNELL

Co-Founder and President of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation

Yevstratiy ZORYA

Metropolitan of Bila Tserkva, Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Barbora MARONKOVA

Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine

Stepan POLTORAK

Minister of Defense of Ukraine in 2014-19

His Beatitude Sviatoslav SHEVCHUK

Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Amb. Roman WASCHUK

Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine in 2014-19

Andriy PARUBIY

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in 2016-18

Vitaly PORTNIKOV

Journalist and Author

Volodymyr GROYSMAN

Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2016-19

Taavi RÕIVAS

Prime Minister of Estonia in 2014-16, Member of the KSF Security Council

William RUGER

President of the American Institute of Economic Research

Dr. Marc P. BERENSON

Professor and Senior Lecturer at King’s College in London

Bruno LÉTÉ

Senior Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels

Andrew WILSON

Historian, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

David EADES

Journalist and former BBC World News Presenter

Mykola KNIAZHYTSKYI

Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Volodymyr HORBULIN

First Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in 1996-99

James SHERR

Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Defence & Security in Estonia, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in 2008-11

Oleksandr TURCHYNOV

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in 2014-19

David J. KRAMER

Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in 2008-09

Amb. Alexander VERSHBOW

NATO Deputy Secretary General in 2012-16, United States Ambassador to NATO in 1998-2001

Raimundas KAROBLIS

Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania in 2016-20

Nicolas TENZER

Chairman of the Center for Studies and Research on Political Decision (CERAP), Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)