Agenda
Hotel «Fairmont Grand Hotel»
Kyiv, Naberezhno-Khreshachatyts'ka St. 1
Open Ukraine with Razumkov Centre & Chatham House
Kyiv 2
Andriy BYCHENKO, Director of the Sociological Service, Razumkov Centre
John LOUGH, Associate Fellow, Ukraine Forum, Chatham House
Orysia LUTSEVYCH, Research Fellow and Manager of Ukraine Forum, Chatham House
Mykhailo BASARAB, Political Expert
Moderator: Oleksiy MELNYK, Co-Director, Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes, Razumkov Centre
Ballroom
Arseniy YATSENYUK, Founder of Open Ukraine Foundation, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)
Ballroom
Volodymyr GROYSMAN, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Ballroom
Oleksandr TURCHYNOV, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Stepan POLTORAK, Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Raimundas KAROBLIS, Minister of National Defense of Lithuania
Marko MIHKELSON, Chairman of the Estonian Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Moderator: Taras BEREZOVETS, Political Analyst
Kyiv 2
James SHERR, Senior Fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute
Andrew WOOD, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Amanda PAUL, Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre
Marc BERENSON, Associate Professor, King’s College London
Moderator: John LOUGH, Associate Fellow, Ukraine Forum, Chatham House
Ballroom
Petro POROSHENKO, President of Ukraine
Moderator: Vitaly PORTNIKOV, Journalist
Ballroom
Nils SCHMID, Member of the Bundestag, Foreign Policy Speaker of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Andrew WILSON, Senior Policy Fellow, the European Council on Foreign Relations
Nicolas TENZER, President of the Centre for Study and Research for Political Decisions, France
Moderator: Taras BEREZOVETS, Political Analyst
Ballroom
Yulia TYMOSHENKO, Leader of the Batkivshchyna Political Party
Ballroom
Anatoliy GRYTSENKO, Head of Coordination Council, Civic Position Political Party
Oleh LYASHKO, Leader of the Radical Party of Ukraine (tbc)
Alexander VERSHBOW, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
Moderator: Taras BEREZOVETS, Political Analyst
Open Ukraine with Osnovy Publishing House
Kyiv 2
Nadia MCCONNELL, President of the US-Ukraine Foundation
Vakhtang KEBULADZE, Publicist and Philosopher
Danylo LUBKIVSKY, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine (2014)
Ballroom
Peter TEJLER, Ambassador, Head of the ODIHR Election Observation Mission in Ukraine
Kurt VOLKER, Ambassador, US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations
Ballroom
Arsen AVAKOV, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Pavlo PETRENKO, Minister of Justice of Ukraine
David KRAMER, Senior Fellow in the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy, Florida International University
Steven PIFER, William J Perry Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Moderator: Taras BEREZOVETS, Political Analyst
Open Ukraine with Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
Kyiv 2
Hanna HOPKO, Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada Foreign Affairs Committee
Yevhen PIKALOV, Head of the International Law Department, Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine
Oksana ZOLOTARYOVA, Acting Director-General for International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
William BROWDER, Founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management
Daria SVYRYDOVA, Expert, Ukrainian Helsinki Union
Moderator: Maria TOMAK, Media Initiative for Human Rights
Atrium (by special invitations only)
Special Address by The Honorable Cindy MCCAIN
Special Address by US Senator Lindsey GRAHAM
Special Address by US Senator Richard DURBIN
Arseniy YATSENYUK, Founder of Open Ukraine Foundation, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)
Ballroom
Andriy PARUBIY, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Open Ukraine with The US German Marshall Fund and Deloitte
By invitations only
Ballroom
Patriarch SVYATOSLAV, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Archbishop YEVSTRATIY ZORIA, Archbishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Representative of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine to the European Institutions
Moderator: Viktor YELENSKY, Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Open Ukraine with Defense Express
Kyiv 2
Viorel CIBOTARU, Minister of Defense of Moldova (2015)
Viktor KRYZHANIVSKY, Ukraine’s Special Representative for Transnistrian Settlement
Ruslan SHEVCENKO, Political Expert
Angela GRAMADA, President of the Expert Association for Security and Global Affairs
Sergiy GERASYMCHUK, Deputy Head of the Board, Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”
Moderator: Anton MIKHNENKO, Editor of “Ukrainian Defense Review”
Ballroom
Prof. Timothy SNYDER, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna
Ballroom
Volodymyr HORBULIN, Advisor to the President of Ukraine
Taavi RÕIVAS, Member of the Estonian Parliament, Prime Minister of Estonia (2014-2016)
James BEZAN, Member of the Canadian Parliament
Elmar BROK, Member of the European People’s Party, Germany
Nadia MCCONNELL, President of the US-Ukraine Foundation
Moderator: Brian WHITMORE, Senior Fellow & Director of Russia Program, the Centre for European Policy Analysis
Open Ukraine with NATO Information and Documentation Centre
Kyiv 2
Judith GOUGH, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine
Roman WASCHUK, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine
Alexander VERSHBOW, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
Barbora MARONKOVA, Director, NATO Information and Documentation Centre
Moderator: Hanna SHELEST, Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism"
Ballroom
Marcin PRZYDACZ, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland
Open Ukraine with The Polish Institute of Eastern Studies
Ballroom
Andrzej ZYBERTOWICZ, Advisor to the President of Poland
Mykola KNYAZHYTSKYI, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Culture
Pawel KOWAL, Member of the European Parliament, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2006-2007)
Alina INAYEH, Director, the US GMF Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Open Ukraine with Internews Ukraine
Kyiv 2
Giedrius SAKALAUSKAS, Expert, Res Publica – Civic Resilience Center
Oleksandra TSEKHANOVSKA, Expert, Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre
Yevhen FEDCHENKO, Co-Founder of StopFake Centre, Ukraine
Maxim ERISTAVI, Non-Resident Research Fellow, Atlantic Council
Vitaliy MOROZ, Head of New Media, Internews Ukraine
Moderator: Volodymyr YERMOLENKO, Director of European Projects, Internews Ukraine
Open Ukraine with the Atlantic Council
Ballroom
Stephen SESTANOVICH, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor for the Practice of International Diplomacy, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
William RUGER, Vice President, Research and Policy, Charles Koch Institute
Celeste WALLANDER, President and CEO, US-Russia Foundation
Alexander VERSHBOW, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
John HERBST, Director of the Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Moderator: Melinda HARING, Editor, UkraineAlert
Ballroom
Oksana ZABUZHKO, Writer, philosopher, Shevchenko Prize Laureate of 2019
