Speakers

Tetiana Kalyta holds a PhD in economics (2015). Previously, she worked as Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Philosophical Anthropology of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (2020) and as Vice-Rector for Social Work at the National Aviation University (2015-2020). Furthermore, she has been employed as Chief Specialist of the Analytical and Expert Support Division of the Digital Transformation Projects Coordination Department of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (2020-2021), and as Head of the Project and Program Management Department for the state-owned enterprise «DIIA» (2021-2022). Since 2022, she has been the Deputy Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization.

Anastasia Bondar serves as the Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy, overseeing international relations and digital transformation initiatives. She brings a wealth of experience to her role, having previously held positions such as Chief Digital Transformation Officer (CDTO) and Deputy Head of the Odessa Regional State Administration.

With over a decade of experience in the telecommunications industry, Anastasia has a strong background in business development and product management. She has worked in various capacities within Ericsson, a leading tech corporation. Her international experience includes serving as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for a mobile operator within the Telia Sonera group in Nepal.

Anastasia has also held leadership roles in project and program management, focusing on strategic development and operational activities in the Telecom, FMCG and Education sectors. Her qualifications extend to teaching, translation, and political science, with a master’s degree in international relations.

Władysław Ortyl was born in Mielec, in the Podkarpackie Region. He graduated from the Rzeszów University of Technology, where he studied at the Department of Mechanics. From 1992 to 1998 he was the Chairman of the MARR Regional Development Agency in Mielec. From 1998 to 2005, he was a Member of the Podkarpackie Regional Assembly, and the Deputy Marshal of the Podkarpackie Region. In 2005 he was elected to the Senate of the Republic of Poland, where he served until May 2013. During this time, from 2005 to 2007, he served as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Regional Development, and in the Senate, he was Chairman of the National Defence Committee and Vice Chairman of the Local Government and State Administration Committee. On May 27, 2013, the Podkarpackie Regional Assembly entrusted him with the position of the Marshal of the Podkarpackie Region, which he holds to this day. Since 2016, he has been a member of the European Committee of the Regions. Within the Committee, he is the chairman of the Carpathians Interregional Group and a member of the Eastern Partnership Group. From February 2020 to July 2022, he served as chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the Committee of the Regions. In 2021, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, to the Territorial Self-Government Council operating within the National Development Council.

An experienced specialist of public relations and consular services, Oleh Kuts started his career in diplomacy in 2006. After the beginning of the Russian aggression, he was one of the cofounders of Ukraine’s MFA Situation Cente and served as its head from 2014- 2020.

In September 2020, Oleh Kuts was appointed the deputy head of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland. Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion against Ukraine, Oleh Kuts has been responsible for the organization and supervision of humanitarian, military and medical aid delivered to Ukraine. In April 2023, he was appointed the Consul General of Ukraine to Lublin.

Konrad Fijołek, born in Rzeszów in 1976, is a graduate of the Pedagogical University in Rzeszów and Apsley Business School of London. Since June 21 2021, he has been the Mayor of the City of Rzeszów.

Konrad Fijołek has been involved in the management of the refugee crisis since February 24, 2022. Rzeszów, as the first large city near the border with Ukraine has been heavily affected by the war in Ukraine. In the peak of the crisis, the city, which is normally inhabited by 200.000 people, hosted 100.000 refugees. All of them were provided with proper support. In appreciation of the city’s and its citizens’ involvement, Rzeszów became the first city in the world to be granted the Rescuer City title by the President of Ukraine, V. Zelensky. The support has not ceased, now it focuses on integration processes and winterisation.

Apart from the crisis management regarding the war in Ukraine, the Mayor has been very active in involving citizens in the management of the city, including through Urban Lab, the urban app Rzeszów is Us, a participatory budget, and in advisory councils. His focus has always been the improvement of the quality of life in Rzeszów. That is why the city joined the Net Zero Mission conducted by the European Commission. A variety of activities has been and is being implemented in this respect, with emphasis put on mobility, energy and digitalization.

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John Hewko is the general secretary and CEO of Rotary International, one of the world’s largest service and humanitarian organizations with 46,000 clubs and 1.4 million members throughout the world, and of its foundation, The Rotary Foundation. He oversees a combined operating budget of over $500 million, assets of more than $1 billion and a staff of almost 800.
From 2004 to 2009, he was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries.

Prior to joining MCC, Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie. He helped establish the firm’s Moscow office and was the managing partner of its offices in Kyiv and Prague.

Hewko has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Hewko holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in Modern History from Oxford University (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar) and a bachelor’s in Government and Soviet Studies from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He speaks English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
He is a member emeritus of the board of trustees of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Oleg Dunda is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning, and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Construction and Design. Futhermore, he is a member of the interparliamentary friendship groups with France, the Baltic countries, the Czech Republic, and Luxembourg.

Oleg has authored several draft laws, such as “On amendments to some laws of Ukraine regarding the legal provision of foreign citizenship (citizenship) for citizens of Ukraine”, and “About the State Information Concern of Television and Radio Broadcasting”. He is also the author of legislative initiatives regarding the need to establish responsibility for the propaganda of the “Russian Peace” ideology and its promotion in Ukraine.

After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, he engaged in humanitarian and volunteer activities. He is a regular speaker at international forums on economic changes in Europe and the world, participates in security forums and works on developing a change in security strategy in the world. He also speaks on the issue of controlled disintegration of the Russian Federation into national states and is engaged in the development of a program for the recovery of Ukraine after the war.

Ambassador Mark Green (ret.) serves as the President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an institution chartered by Congress to “strengthen the fruitful learning between the world of learning and the world of public affairs.” He has served as the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development where he used America’s development and humanitarian tools to help countries on their “journey to self-reliance.” He also served as Executive Director of the McCain Institute and President/CEO of the International Republican Institute. Green served as the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania (mid-2007 to early 2009), and before that, he served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wisconsin’s 8th District. He has been honored for his work by the Republics of Tanzania and Colombia, and institutions including the Scowcroft Institute at Texas A&M and Georgetown University.

Dr. Valeriia Palii has a PhD degree in clinical psychology. She has worked as a clinical psychologist in a private practice in Kyiv, Ukraine, and has experience in developing psychodiagnostic tests and organizing tests procedures. Additionally, she works as a lecturer at university and for private companies, and is involved in research and project management in the field of mental health. Since 2020, she has held the position of President of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine. Together with her colleagues, she runs the psychological support hotline for Ukrainians, which is active in Ukraine and 21 European countries.  

Michael’s humanitarian and philanthropic missions started in 1999. Previously a successful builder and Miami nightlife executive, Michael is now fully retired from the private sector and focuses 100% of his time and efforts on Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) – 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Michael in 2011 as a first responder to global disasters with the aim to deliver the most amount of aid to the most amount of people in the shortest amount of time.

Michael has built an international organization that’s disrupting the disaster sector through its innovative, efficient and modernized systems. Unlike many nonprofit executives, Michael is hands on, boots on the ground, on the field and the offices. He oversees the management of 6 international branches on multiple continents.
GEM has responded to disasters in 53 countries, distributed over $281 million in supplies, coordinated over 335 disaster mission trips and built or repaired more than 508 homes, 15 schools, and has supported children in Haiti with their education for the last decade.

On the second day of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine in February 2022, Michael arrived at a Polish-Ukrainian border with the team and immediately established logistical operations in Poland and Hungary to support Ukrainians fleeing the war. Thanks to the GEM Relocation program 38,892 Ukrainian refugees were relocated to over 40 countries and found a safe shelter. Within three month Michael established a warehouse in Kyiv, Ukraine and moved to Kyiv himself to coordinate all GEM programs within Ukraine. Now 1,5 years later, GEM delivered 1535 trucks of aid inside Ukraine and serviced 983 cities supporting 200 000 families in the front line regions with the critical aid per month. In addition, GEM has repaired 229 houses, 9 schools, 7 clinics, 9 residential apartment buildings, 2 governmental buildings and replaced over 20000 windows all over Ukraine.
Michael Capponi is serving as a member of the Advisory Board to the World for Ukraine Summit.

A communications expert with a background in journalism and media, Matthew has worked in different parts of the UK Government for the past decade. While working in the UK Prime Minister’s Office, he worked with partner governments across Europe, Asia and Africa to support the development of their strategic communications capabilities. He is now deployed by British Embassy Kyiv to support counter disinformation efforts in Ukraine – a country he has strong personal connections with.

Shams Asadi is Human Rights Commissioner and Head of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna. She is a university of technology graduate and has many years of practical and academic experience in Urban Regeneration and Urban Development with a focus on European and international affairs. The human rights dimension of urban development has accompanied her from the beginning of her professional life and since 2010, with human rights being the main subject of her career. The thematic focus of her work includes Human Rights City in multi-level governance, promoting and capacity building for human rights in local administrations, urban security, and human rights education.

Marcin Chruściel is the director of the Government Plenipotentiary Office for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation. He is a graduate of PhD studies in Political Science at the University of Wroclaw and Master studies in International Relations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Previously, he worked as the President of the Management Board at the Institute of New Europe – a Polish think tank focusing on analytical research in the fields of international politics, economics, security and new technologies.

Rafał Brzoska, CEO of Integer, who is present in 9 European countries. One of the biggest Fund in the world – Advent International – has invested its means in his company. Last year Integer Group has delivered 424,3 mln packages, which gave increase of 38%. Rafał invests in many projects and startups (Bakalland, Sales Manago, E-obuwie* and 50 more) by himself and through investment founds (bValue and Inovo VC). Rafał is a winner of „Enterpreneur of the 2021 year” in EY competition. He executed one of the biggest acquisition of polish comapany abroad taking over Mondial Relay for 513 mln EUR. *E-obuwie: in March 2021 Rafał’s company from Cypr A&R Investment Limited and Cyfrowy Polsat Zygmunt Solorz-Żak bought package of 10% of shares for 500 mln PLN. Rafał is one of the founders of investment found – bValue, which is already 5 years on the market. Investors of the found are: Rafał Brzoska (InPost), Marian Owerko (Bakalland), Tomasz Hanczarek, Tomasz Misiak, Krzysztof Inglot (three Gens from Work Service) and Dariusz Żuk (owner of Akademickie Inkubatory Przedsiębiorczości). Polish businessmans put their means into investments supported by public funds and they are searching for the most interesting companies which need suport. At the moment Rafał puts his attention in growing his bisiness in Great Britain.

Rafał Sonik is an enterpreneur, sportsman and philantropist. He ran Gemini Hilding in 1989. Gemini Holding has in its portfolio shopping centres Gemini Park in Bielsko-Biała, Tarnów and Tychy. For last 25 years Rafał suports and cooperates with Stowarzyszenie Siemacha, which helps kids and youths who does not have equal chance in education and social development. Cofounder and CEO of Stowarzyszenie „Czysta Polska”, which leads project of cleaning Tatry trails each year – called Czyste Tatry. He also puts his attention in initiatives connected with social and cultural development of Zakopane and its surrounding. He is the first polish driver, who won Rajd Dakar in 2015 and was 5 times on the podium. He also won World Cup 9 times. Rafał is founder and former president of Polskie Stowarzyszenie Czterokołowców ATV Polska. In cooperation with Piotr Beaupre and Polski Związek Motorowy he brought to life Poland National Team – from the begining he was captain of the national team. He promotes slogan „Daj przyQuad. Nie niszcz lasu”, which means „Set an example, don’t destroy forest.” He also suports initiative „Szybcy na torze – bezpieczni na drodze” („Fast on the track, save on the road). Rafał is an ambasador of FIA Golden Rules program, which gather the best rally drivers in Poland and promotes basic safety rules of the traffic. Gemini Holding is a company who starts its business from cooperation with British Petroleum. During next years it leads projects big forein networks like: Geant, Carrefour, Tesco, Castorama, Bricomarche, Lids, McDonalds. Putting into operation shopping centres in Bielsko-Biała (May 2009) and Tarnów (August 2010) was big achievement of Gemini Holding. Company owns more than 131 000 squere metres of shopping surface. Rafał also works in other industries like IT, pharmaceutical or development.

Aaron Korewa is the director of the Atlantic Council’s Warsaw Office which is part of the Europe Center. Korewa previously worked at the McCain Institute for International Leadership where he spent the last five years serving as program manager, following many years of working in both Sweden and Poland. Born in Sweden but with both Polish and American family roots, Korewa holds an MA in international politics and a BA in economics from Uppsala University. At the McCain Institute, he ran the Kissinger Fellowship, an initiative focused on developing the strategic skills of future foreign-policy and national-security leaders with the kind of principles that are the hallmark of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s career. Korewa also directed a project to counter disinformation from authoritarian states and participated in the McCain Institute’s Working Groups on Russia and Reaffirming America’s Alliances. Korewa frequently features as a commentator on Polish television on transatlantic-security issues and previously wrote for Svenska Dagbladet, a major Swedish newspaper. He is based in Warsaw.

Anatolii Fedoruk is currently leading the Bucha city territorial community of the Kyiv Oblast, which unites 14 settlements. He is also the chairman of the board of the Kyiv regional branch of the Association of Cities of Ukraine. By education, Anatolii is a historian (1997) and holds a master’s degree in management (2011).

He has been the mayor of Bucha since April 7, 1998. Under his leadership, Bucha rose to regional importance and became the center of a large community and one of the 7 consolidated district centers of the Kyiv region. During the occupation of Bucha by Russian troops from February-March 2022, Anatolii remained in the city. Currently, he is active coordinating the rebuilding of damaged objects in the city. For his efforts, Antolii was awarded the State Order “For Merit” III and II degrees.

Brock D. Bierman is President and CEO of Ukraine Focus, a Washington, DC based 501c3 humanitarian organization committed to working directly with communities across Ukraine to meet urgent assistance needs through direct cooperation and collaboration with Ukrainian local, state and federal authorities.
Prior to helping found Ukraine Focus, Bierman established the Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Light Up Ukraine and Playgrounds4Peace programs. Bierman has personally organized and led 13 missions to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion to deliver urgently needed humanitarian supplies to communities across Ukraine.
A recognized leader, Bierman has served two Presidents, most recently as the Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 21, 2017, by unanimous consent. Bierman also served three terms in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, where he cultivated strong bipartisan support, received public recognition for extraordinary ethical integrity and accountability, and delivered responsive constituent services.
Bierman remains a dedicated community leader, with an extensive history of service to various boards and commissions. A native of Rhode Island, Bierman received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Anna Biloshapka is currently engaged as Director of Partnership and Network Development at SpivDiia, a leading Ukrainian charity foundation which functions as an umbrella organization for 25 regional partners in 20 regions in Ukraine. Together with her team, Anna is providing an ecosystem of services for Ukrainians who are affected by the war, thereby uniting the efforts of volunteers, businesses, donors, government and local authorities.

Anna is an experienced project management professional with a proven track record of effectively leading teams in the field of NGOs and CSR. Adept at coordinating and managing diverse projects, she has an impressive track record of organizing over 30 initiatives. Her efforts were also recognised by the President of Ukraine in 2022 from whom she received the honour of “Gold Heart of Ukraine.”

David Schlaefer is the Principal Director for Ukraine in the US State Department’s Office for Global Criminal Justice and the incoming Senior Assistance Coordinator at the US Embassy in Kyiv. He was assigned to the US Embassy in Kyiv during Russia’s full-scale invasion and worked on a wide range of assistance-related issues from Poland and Ukraine during the conflict’s first year, including leading the Embassy’s remote platform in Rzeszow for several months. His role as assistance coordinator involves integrating the more than $70 billion in all-kind security, humanitarian, and technical assistance that the United States has provided to Ukraine into strategic planning mechanisms and ensuring effective oversight. He has also played a significant role in policy and programing efforts aimed at war crimes accountability in Ukraine. Prior to his assignments in Ukraine, David served as the Deputy Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS and as Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, David has been a diplomat for almost three decades and served in Brazil, Mexico, Finland, Iraq, Japan, Romania, Poland, and Ukraine.

Oleksiy Feliv is a recognized legal practitioner with 19 years of experience in consulting foreign business in Ukraine. He specializes in large-scale projects in real estate, construction, infrastructure, and energy involving foreign investment and related project financing.

Oleksiy is an active participant in the Rehousing Ukraine Initiative, established by the Affordable Housing Institute (USA) and INTEGRITES in 2022. It aims to provide timely and implementable advice to the government of Ukraine to ease the rebuilding and recovery of the country after the war.

Since 2019, together with fellow partners from INTEGRITES, Oleksiy has taught an annual course on structuring foreign investment in Ukraine to the law graduates of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Oleksiy’s expertise has been consistently acknowledged by the leading international legal rankings such as The Legal500 EMEA, IFLR1000, and Best Lawyers. In 2023, Yurydychna Gazeta, the leading media in the Ukrainian legal market, recognized Oleksiy as the most effective managing partner of a law firm in Ukraine.

Viktor Shevchenko is simultaneously active as logistics officer of the Territorial Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and as CEO of the logistics company Zammler. Previously, he was Head of International Transportation Department at the F.S. Mackenzie-Ukraine LLC in Kyiv, Manager of Foreign Economic Activities of the International Transportation Department at Kuehne & Nagel Ukraine, and Deputy Director for Commercial Affairs at the Justice Service LLC in Chernivtsi.

Viktor holds an MBA from the International Management Institute (IMI-Kyiv) and is a specialist in foreign economic relations at the faculty of economics at the Kiev Academy of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economics. He is also a specialist of world history, having studied history at the Chernivtsi National University.

Oleg Burlachuk is an experienced psychologist who has dedicated his work to creating a civilized market for psychological services in Ukraine. As the General Secretary of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine, Executive Secretary and now President of the All-Ukrainian Psychodiagnostic Association, he has contributed to the development of standards, training, and certification in psychological assessment. He has furthermore been a partner at ALTERA since 2011, providing psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, and training through the ALTERA Kyiv Psychological Center, and has repeatedly organized the PSYCON conference which focusses on psychodiagnostics and psychotherapy.

Until 2023, he was active as Country Manager at Giunti Psychometrics Ukraine and from 2019 to 2021, he was President of the European Test Publishers Group. In this capacity, he published the first Ukrainian psychological tests and actively participated in international collaborations.

Oleg holds a Master of Psychology from the Kyiv Shevchenko University. Furthermore, he has received leadership training from the American Psychological Association, the World Health Organization and the Civil and Political School, as well as training in cognitive-behavioral therapy from Oxford and the Ukrainian Institute of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.

He is passionate about mental health and advocating for the rights of individuals with mental disorders and involved in legislative initiatives and the establishment of the NPA Crisis Hotline for crisis support.

Roman coordinates partnership development with key international and foreign donors at SpivDiia – one of the leading Ukrainian charity foundations. The organization has an established network of regional hubs (support centers) and an IT platform which collects, verifies and matches requests of war-affected and vulnerable Ukrainian citizens with support opportunities, uniting the efforts of volunteers, businesses, donors, government and local authorities. With more than 19 years of experience in fundraising, strategy development and event / project management in the social and business fields, Roman facilitates, consults, and provides strategy sessions and mentoring for different NGOs and businesses.

Tetiana Melnyk is an expert on municipal infrastructure recovery. She is currently working for the executive body of the Association of Ukrainian Cities, which is the most reputable non-governmental organisation in Ukraine representing the local government and participating in the policy dialogue with state authorities at all levels on behalf of municipalities. Tetiana has conducted research on providing information and analytical support to public administration of regional development and holds a PhD in public administration (2023). She studied at the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Tetiana has worked at the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, the Ministry on Regional Development, Construction and Housing of Ukraine, and the Kyiv City State Administration. Currently, at the Association of Ukrainian Cities, she is responsible for advising municipalities and conducting policy analysis in the field of regional and local development and recovery. In 2022 Tetiana was a Red Cross volunteer, coordinating the so-called “bank of clothes” for internally displaced persons, who fled from the occupied territories in the Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine to one of the districts of Kyiv.

Roman Lozynskyi was born in Lviv, Ukraine. He has been a member of the national scout organization Plast since childhood and studied Political Science in Lviv at the Ivan Franko University and Public Administration at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Since 2019, he has been a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, First Deputy Head of the Committee on Service, Regional Development and Urban Planning of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and a member of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He is one of four Rada members that are currently serving the military. In March of 2022, he joined the ranks of the Armed Forces as a volunteer and served in the Special Operations Forces’ 73rd Naval Center.

Piotr Chmura is the president of REXI Sp. z o.o., a Polish company specializing in the design and implementation of comprehensive construction investments. The company promotes a holistic (comprehensive) approach to the implementation of tasks, accompanying projects from the first idea to the implementation of the final facility. All work is carried out under the supervision of qualified engineering staff and at the highest European investment standard. REXI specializes in:
1. Projects of buildings and constructions
2. General contracting of buildings and structures
3. Expert opinions and tests of buildings and facilities
4. Geodetic investment service
5. Logistics and delivery
6. Investment Support

Besides his role at REXI, Piotr works for the Podkarpackie Chamber of Civil Engineers in Rzeszów, where he is the chairman of the digitization team. Additionally, he is a member of the committee for international cooperation at the main Polish Chamber of Civil Engineers in Warsaw.

Privately, Piotr likes to spend time with his family and dogs. He loves reading books, having good drinks, traveling in good company, and discovering new yet undiscovered places.

EVGENY AFINEEVSKY is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated director. On February 22-24, 2023 Evgeny presented to the world a newly edited and updated version of his headline-breaking documentary “FREEDOM ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM”. The movie, which outlines all 9 years of the war and one year of the full-scale invasion, premiered recently in Kyiv and Vatican.

In 2020, Catholics in Media Associates awarded him with the 2020 CIMA Social Justice Award for his passion for telling stories that matter, his love for humanity and work for justice. In the same year, despite the pandemic, he presented his headline-making movie “FRANCESCO” in Rome for which he was awarded the prestigious Kineo Award.

His documentary, “CRIES FROM SYRIA”, was included in the Official Selection at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and has won several awards, including the International Documentary Association’s Courage Under Fire Award, the Humanitas Prize, a Cinema for Peace Award, the Overseas Press Club’s Peter Jennings Award and the Best Director at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. It was also nominated for Best Documentary as well as for four Emmy Awards and a PGA Award.

In 2016, Evgeny earned an Oscar & Emmy nomination for “WINTER ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM”, which was included in the Official Selection of the Venice & Telluride film festivals, won the People’s Choice Award for the Best Documentary from the Toronto International Film Festival and received the Television Academy’s Honors Award.

Oliver is an attorney whose practice involves assisting companies with their international operations, specifically in technology, life sciences, and real estate. He is involved with organizations in their day-to-day functions in Hungary and works closely with acquisition teams internationally on their M&A projects and the setup of their Hungarian operations. His focus is on matters that concern the United States and Hungary, and he often represents the interests of foreign entities with their activities in Hungary and Europe and works closely with foreign governments.

Additionally, Oliver is an Executive Board Member of Task Force Antal (TFA), a non-profit humanitarian action organization comprised of highly skilled volunteers and elite special operations veterans who are committed to protecting life and liberty. Their mission is to provide safe evacuation support, humanitarian aid, and complex crisis management solutions in the most dangerous conflict zones around the world.

Varvara Tertychna is the co-founder and CEO of the Starenki Charitable Foundation. She has led the organization since its establishment in 2017 and built it from a local volunteering initiative to a foundation that survived and expanded its activity despite the full-scale invasion and throughout 2022. The organization has helped lonely elderly people in need in 12 regions of Ukraine relying on a network of 20 core members, over 300 volunteers and a trust from local and international businesses, professional non-profit organizations and NGOs.

In addition to her great expertise in the non-profit sector, Varvara also has experience of working in top FMCG companies and UN-system organizations. She is an efficient but very empathetic leader with a solid background in organizational development, project management, financial control, and accounting. Varvara has a great interest in global politics, international cooperation, and building a better future for our children. Her priorities as the CEO of the Starenki Foundation are raising the voice of seniors, uniting communities and businesses to help elderly people locally, and activating a dialogue in society to form a responsible attitude towards older age in Ukraine.

Nadya Tkachenko is the Founder and President of Project NADIYA, a US- and Ukraine-based organization focused on helping internally displaced people in Ukraine rebuild their hope and their lives (‘Nadiya’ means ‘Hope’ in Ukrainian).

Project NADIYA stems from Nadya’s humanitarian relief trip to Ukraine in March of 2022. Driven to help, and raising around $100,000, Nadya traveled from the US to assist refugees with cash stipends and temporary housing. Soon it became clear that the growing humanitarian crisis of displacement needed longer-term solutions, including dignified housing and employment assistance in safer areas of Ukraine as this would help internally displaced people (IDPs) remain in the country, become more self-sufficient, and less dependent on humanitarian aid. This gave birth to Project NADIYA’s which is now providing medium-term housing and social integration support for IDPs.

Separately, with a group of experts in housing finance, Nadya is exploring longer-term solutions that would create affordable housing options in Ukraine’s recovery and rebuilding process.

Aside from leading these initiatives, Nadya is an entrepreneur and a proud mother of 4 amazing kids. Her prior experience includes serving as a development and program director in the non-profit and NGO sectors, including UNESCO. She holds an MA from SOAS, London, and a BA from Middlebury College, USA. Ethnically Ukrainian, raised in Kazakhstan and in Ukraine, Nadya lives in Massachusetts, USA.

Anastasiya Shapochkina is the founder and president of Eastern Circles. She has 13 years of experience in consulting and working in the energy industry. She has worked for many companies in the fields of technologies and market analysis in the renewable energy sector, utilities, nuclear energy, and e-mobility. She has furthermore led the development of international cross-industry partnership research projects on these subjects and has represented business in European industrial and research associations. Anastasiya has worked as a Lecturer of Geopolitics at Sciences Po Paris since 2012, focusing on the role of business in EU-Russia relations. In this role, she has authored several articles on the geopolitics and geoeconomics in the Former Soviet Union and has regular TV and radio appearances. Anastasiya graduated from the German and European Studies Program of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Iryna Shevchenko is the founder and director of the Charitable organization “Nezabutni”, which helps people with dementia in Ukraine. Iryna has a background in marketing, having worked as head of the marketing department for Mattel brands in Ukraine for 8 years. For the last six years, however, she has worked in the field of charity. Iryna launched the first project against ageism in Ukraine and subsequently founded the Nezabutni Foundation (“nezabutni” meaning “unforgettable” in Ukrainian), which is the only active organization in Ukraine that specializes exclusively on the issues of dementia. When the war started, Iryna fled from Ukraine to Geneva together with her daughter and her parents and continues working from there.

Mariya is an internationally trained professional with a background in working for non-profit organizations in Canada. Currently, she is implementing initiatives in response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, thereby helping to address the needs of Internally Displaced Persons and vulnerable individuals affected by the war. Mariya’s focus is on child protection programs, MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support), MPCA (Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance), education, and youth development. She coordinates program teams in four oblasts (regions) of Western Ukraine, communicates with international partners, and has extensive experience in grant writing. Additionally, she consults US and European non-profit organizations on the needs of the affected population and issues of economic recovery, and advises them on how to establish municipal partnerships.

Daniel F. Runde has spent the last 20 years working on global development and American soft power. He is Senior Vice President, Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development, and William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Among his many other contributions, Mr. Runde was an architect of the BUILD Act, contributed to the reauthorization of the U.S. EXIM Bank in 2018, and was an architect of Prosper Africa, a U.S. government initiative to deepen the United States’ commercial and development engagement in Africa. Prior to CSIS, he held leadership positions at USAID and the World Bank Group and worked in both commercial and investment banking. Runde serves on several boards, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee, and previously chaired two U.S. federal advisory committees that touch on soft power. Furthermore, he is a columnist for The Hill and hosts a CSIS podcast series called Building the Future: Freedom, Prosperity & Foreign Policy with Dan Runde. Mr. Runde is also the author of the book The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power (Bombardier Books, 2022).

Mariya Bachmaha holds a degree in public health from Brown University (USA) and in law from Ivan Franko National University (Lviv, Ukraine). She leads an NGO called “PH Capital. Public Health Experts” which unites young Ukrainian experts with experience and education in public health, health care, social police and care, law and policy to systemically impact the public health system in Ukraine.

Mariya has worked with the SDC-funded project MH4U as national stakeholder coordinator since 2019. In this role, she is responsibile for making high quality mental health services more accessible to the Ukrainian people by coordinating national stakeholders.

Previously, she coordinated research activities in Ukraine at the Brown University Ukraine Collaboration, mainly in the areas of Tuberculosis and HIV. The research focused on patient-level and system-level obstacles for effective HIV/TB patient care in Ukraine. As a WHO consultant in Ukraine and as a researcher, Mariya has focused on the performance of the national immunization system and, since 2020, she has been a member of the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG). As a WHO consultant, Mariya has worked on improving access to immunization services in Ukraine and limiting the spread of the measles outbreak in 2018-2020. As a public health consultant, she is working with national authorities and NGOs on building a public health system in Ukraine.

Nina Jankowicz is an internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization and the author of two books: How to Lose the Information War (Bloomsbury 2020), which The New Yorker called “a persuasive new book on disinformation as a geopolitical strategy,” and How to Be A Woman Online (Bloomsbury 2022), an examination of online abuse and disinformation and tips for fighting back, which Booklist named “essential.” Currently the Vice President at the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience, a non-profit focused on countering disinformation, Jankowicz has advised governments, international organizations, and tech companies, and testified before the US Congress, UK Parliament, and European Parliament.

In 2022, Jankowicz was appointed to lead the Disinformation Governance Board, an intra-agency best practices and coordination entity at the Department of Homeland Security; she resigned the position after a sustained disinformation campaign caused the Biden Administration to abandon the project. From 2017-2022, Jankowicz has held fellowships at the Wilson Center, where she led accessible, actionable research about the effects of disinformation on women and freedom of expression around the world. She advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship in 2016-17. Early in her career, she managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute.

Since 2018, Oksana Savytska has been in charge of combating manifestations of violence, including bullying, in the educational environment and developing the psychological service of the education system. She is a co-author of amendments made to Ukrainian legislation on combating bullying in educational institutions of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, she has led the coordination of global partnerships in mental health and psychosocial support for participants in the educational process within the framework of the National Company for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, initiated by the First Lady of Ukraine. She is also a co-author of the Concept of Transformation of the Psychological Service of the Education System and Project Manager of the pilot project to implement these changes as well as an UNESCO consultant on MHPSS in Ukraine.

Yuliia Darnytska is a member of the Chernihiv City Council and also serves on the Committee for Socioeconomic Development. She holds a position as a board member of the Chernihiv Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In addition, she is the founder of the charitable organization ‘Yuliia Darnytska Foundation’. In the past, she held the role of Director at the Regional Development Agency of the Chernihiv region. Her active involvement has resulted in several renovation and development initiatives within the city of Chernihiv.

Alina Muzioł-Węcławowicz, who holds a Ph.D. in Geography, specializes in housing and housing policy, particularly in social housing, revitalization, and local development. She studied at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (doctoral studies). She has worked at the Institute of Geography, the Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, and the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography at the Warsaw University of Technology. Currently, she is an active retiree, providing advice to municipalities and various institutions, conducting research and analysis. She is the author of numerous scientific and popular publications on housing and urban renewal.

She is originally from Mąkowarsko (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship) and has been living in Warsaw for decades. She enjoys nature, particularly untouched by human intervention, as well as good films and books. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and a friend, colleague, or acquaintance to many wonderful people.

Olha Nabochenko has been working as Deputy Director and Head of the Educational and Methodological Center of the State Institution “School of Superheroes” since October 2022, and is also active as Visiting Scientist at the University of Indiana (USA) where she studies the impact of psychological trauma that war causes on children with special educational needs and how to further work with such children. Previously, she worked as State Expert in the Expert Group on Out-of-school and Inclusive Education of the Directorate of Preschool, School, Out-of-school and Inclusive Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Her areas of ​​responsibility included education of children with special educational needs (inclusive education, special education, provision of education for children who do not study, education in hospitals) and psychological support.

Olha holds the scientific degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences which she was awarded after following a postgraduate course at the Institute of Special Pedagogy and Psychology named after Mykola Yarmachenko of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. She also holds a Master’s degree from the Institute of Special Psychology and Correctional Pedagogy of the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanova.

Liubov Zaliubovska is an esteemed expert in the field of education. As a specialist in secondary school education, Liubov has dedicated herself to enhancing the learning experiences of students at this critical stage of their academic journey.
For the past eight years, Liubov has held the esteemed position of Head of Education at GoGlobal NGO. Under her guidance, GoGlobal has successfully launched and managed several international and all-Ukrainian programs for schools, enriching the educational landscape and broadening opportunities for countless students.
Recognizing the profound impact of war on mental health, she initiated a vital partnership with the Kyiv Mohyla Centre for Psychosocial Rehabilitation. After the outbreak of the full-scale war, this alliance resulted in the launch of comprehensive training and support programs specifically designed for educators. These programs aimed to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and address mental health issues, providing critical support for their students during this distressing time. Liubov currently collaborates with the Mental Health for Ukraine program, guiding a project that seeks to promote the ‘mental health responsive school’ concept. This approach seeks to incorporate mental health awareness and support strategies into every facet of the educational experience, from teaching methodologies and curricula to extracurricular activities and community outreach.

Olha Horbanova is a mental health expert at the Coordination Center of Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. She has received higher education in the field of psychology and has experience of working in private practice as a psychological counsel, and as a mental health professional at the Center for Public Health. In her current role, she coordinates the implementation of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program at the initiative of the First Lady at the regional level. The main goal of this project is to build regional coordination and create an accessible network to provide mental health and psychosocial support services for all social groups of the population.

Anton Shevchenko has over fifteen years of managerial, advisory and research experience across the humanitarian, sustainable development and peace & security sectors. He has worked for several international NGOs, including ITF Enhancing Human Security, the Center for Civilians in Conflict, and the Estonian Refugee Council. Furthermore, he has experience working for multilateral agencies such as UNDP, UNMAS, and the OSCE as well as for private companies, such as PwC and Black & Veatch. Anton holds a Master of Advanced Studies degree in International Relations from the University of Geneva, an LLM in International Law from Varna Free University, and an Executive Certificate of Advanced Study from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Vitalii Klymchuk is a Mental Health Policies Development Expert and Vice-President of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine. He was involved in the Mental Health for Ukraine Project by GFA Consulting Group GmbH and works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculté des Sciences Humaines, des Sciences de l’Education et des Sciences Sociales at the University of Luxembourg. He is also a Member of the Standing Committee on Crisis and Disaster Psychology of the European Federation of Psychological Associations and a Mental Health Expert for the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Veterans, the Ministry of Social Policy, the National Health Service, and the Center of Public Health of Ukraine.

Vitalii has graduated from a ScD in Social Psychology, and holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology and a PGDip in Global Mental Health.

Igor Cvetkovski is an international reparations and transitional justice specialist currently serving as Senior Advisor on Reparations and Transitional Justice with the Office of the International Organization for Migration in Ukraine. Previously, Igor provided expert advice and support in setting up the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) on reparations for victims of Conflict Related Sexual Violence. Until July 2020, Igor was the Head of the Land, Property and Reparations Unit of the International Organization for Migration.

Igor studied philosophy and has more than 20 years of experience working in the humanitarian, peace, human rights, and transitional justice and development sectors, particularly on issues related to reparations for human rights violations and land and property restitution. Over the years, he has worked for a variety of programmes and initiatives, including the German Forced Labor Compensation, the Holocaust Victims Assets Programmes and the Roma Holocaust Survivors Programme, as well as national reparations and restitution programmes in Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Germany, Chile, Colombia, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Olha Mykytchyn is a graduate of the “Social Work” program at the Ukrainian Catholic University. She has participated in volunteering projects in the East of Ukraine and in projects to raise awareness for the topic of autism in Ukraine. In February 2022, she joined the Children’s Voices Charitable Foundation to help manage the psychological help line for parents and children. Currently, she coordinates a team of 20 psychologists and psychotherapists who provide free psychological assistance in the range of 10 to 15 consultations for parents and children who do not have the physical opportunity to meet with a specialist. Her team has now also completed the first set of a storytelling course with elements of art therapy for teenagers who write and engage in creativity. Under the leadership of a famous Ukrainian screenwriter and director, a group of children learned to deal with their experiences (largely military) through writing their own stories.

Dimitrije Todorovic has been Country Director of Help Age International Ukraine since the beginning of the year. Previously, he worked as Head of Mission in Poland at Intersos and as Country Director for Georgia at the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund. He has much experience working in the international humanitarian aid sector, having worked for many international organizations and NGOs, such as the United Nations Development Programme, Mission East Afghanistan, Relief International, Save the Children International, the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, OXFAM International, DRC Iraq, and RTI Baghdad-Iraq.

Prof. Veronika Bílková is Head of the Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague, and a senior researcher at the Centre for International Law of the Institute of International Relations, Prague (Czech Republic). She is a member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (since 2010) and of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (since 2020). She is also the Vice-President of the European Society of International Law and chair of the Czech Committee for Human Rights of Older Persons. Previously, she was a member of three expert missions on Ukraine established within the OSCE Moscow Mechanism from 2022-2023. Her fields of research include the use of force, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law and the fight against terrorism. She has published extensively in Czech, English and French.

Jean-Christophe Bonis is a futurist, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and writer, recognized in 2019 as one of the most influential French experts in the field of artificial intelligence across the planet. He is passionate about technology and connecting innovations with people.
In March 2022, as a response to the war in Ukraine, he established the NGO Team4UA and HIT (Humanarian Innovative Technologies).
Team4UA by HIT is a global humanitarian foundation with
a mission to introduce disruptive technologies into humanitarian emergency response. Together with tech entrepreneurs from all over the world Jean-Christophe Bonis launched an informational center for refugee support and started delivering humanitarian aid across Ukraine in partnership with UN World Food Programme.
In May 2022, he initiated the 3D printing of a school building in Lviv. It will be the first school in Ukraine built with 3D technologies. Later on, Team4UA by HIT plans to scale this technology and rebuild destroyed houses and buildings all over the country.

Darya Kasyanova has worked in the capacity of National Programme Development Director of SOS Children`s Villages Ukraine since 2016 and is also active as Head of the Board of The Civil Association “Ukrainian Child Rights Network”. In 2014, with the beginning of the war in Donbas, she was involved in the evacuation of residents, including children, from the Donetsk region.

Previously, Darya worked as Head of the Management, Marketing and Finance Chair at Donetsk Economics and Humanitarian Institute. In 2007, she started working with social issues in various projects and charity foundations, and eventually became involved in orphans and foster care problems. From April 2007 to June 2016, she worked at Rinat Akhmetov Foundation as Programme Leader of “Development of Ukraine” and Humanitarian Aid Team Leader of “Psychological Aid for Children” and “Evacuation”.

Darya holds a Master’s Degree in International Economics from the Donetsk Economics and Humanitarian Institute and a Ph.D. in Economics with the specialisation ‘Demographics, Labour Economics and Social Economics and Politics’ from the Donetsk National University.

Eoin has worked as a Chartered Psychologist for the past 16 years. He is an Associate Fellow of both the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) as well as the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is also a BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and has completed separate qualifications in workplace wellbeing, EMDR, and responding in the immediate aftermath of critical incidents.

He is a member of Trinity College Dublin’s ‘Military Health Research Group’ and continues to serve (as a reservist soldier) in the Irish Defence Forces.

Eoin’s main professional interests include:

– Staff-Care (e.g. burnout prevention; workplace wellbeing programs).
– Occupational Trauma (humanitarian and military applications).
– Clinical capacity-building of staff.
– The use of ‘scalable interventions’ to enhance mental health service provision (e.g. ‘Problem Management Plus’).
– Helping organizations to adopt ‘trauma-informed’ and ‘survivor-centered’ approaches.

Eoin is the lead provider of ‘MHPSS’ (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) guidance on DIGNITY’s projects in Eastern Europe. He consults with DIGNITY’s excellent local partner organizations – such as Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) – to ensure that their staff are equipped to meet the challenges they face as part of their important work.

Iryna Datsenko co-founded the NGO “CrimeaSOS.” Her professional interests include the development and execution of socially beneficial projects. With over a decade of professional experience of working in the NGO sector, she has been actively involved in projects aiding internally displaced persons since 2014. Additionally, she possesses a higher education degree in the field of NGO management.

Nadia Volkova is a lawyer practicing in Ukraine and specialising in international humanitarian and international criminal law. She is also the founder and director of the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group (ULAG), an organisation focussed on monitoring, analysing and continuously assessing the legal landscape in Ukraine through the prism of international standards of due process, litigating strategic cases at the national and international courts and tribunals, and advocating for and implementing legislative and institutional changes in Ukraine. Nadia has extensive work experience from the UK, France and the US. In 2015, she started working on cases of alleged atrocity crimes committed in Eastern Ukraine and internationally. In 2022, Nadia was a recipient of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) Human Rights Award for her outstanding commitment to human rights and the rule of law in Ukraine and internationally.

Julia Sachenko is currently employed as Partnership Development Lead at A21 Poland, after previously working as Country Manager of A21 Ukraine. She has 10 years of experience in combating human trafficking and coordinating assistance to survivors of modern slavery in Ukraine.

Together with the A21 Ukraine team, she has developed dozens of prevention programs for people vulnerable to human trafficking and initiated awareness projects with the government of Ukraine. She has also taken part in police raids and rescue missions, and provided holistic reintegration assistance to victims.

Currently, she is involved in the development of projects and resources for refugees, in conducting information campaigns along the Ukrainian side of the border, providing training for frontline professionals in Poland, and assisting refugees affected by human trafficking.

Kateryna Rashevska is a legal expert at the Regional Center for Human Rights and a PhD fellow at the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Furthermore, she is a member of the Interdepartmental Commission on the Application and Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in Ukraine, the Expert Council at the Representation of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the SQDI (Société québécoise de droit internationale). With her work, Kateryna protects the rights of children as a particularly vulnerable category of victims of international crimes at the ECHR, the OSCE, the EU, the OHCHR and the ICC. Kateryna was one of the authors of the Submission to the ICC related to international crimes committed against the Ukrainian children by Maria Lvova-Belova and Vladimir Putin. She is also an author and a driver of the draft resolution of the UN GA on repatriation of illegally deported children.

Yuliia Chykolba is a humanitarian mine action expert. She has developed and led safety awareness programmes on explosive hazards in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and recently Ukraine. Since 2016, she has held various roles within the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and international NGOs, working in countries with the highest levels of mine and explosive contamination in the world. She is an alumna of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Cambridge Security Initiative and a Chevening scholar. In 2022, she returned home to Ukraine to support the humanitarian efforts in the country. In 2023, together with the ACAPS, she co-hosted the Ukrainian series of the Trumanitarian podcast focused on the performance of the humanitarian aid sector in Ukraine after the Russian full-scale invasion.

Dora Chomiak, a native New Yorker, has been active in the Ukrainian-American community in the United States since the 1980s. Dora has been traveling to Ukraine for over three decades and worked for the independent Soros foundation in Kyiv from 1991 to 1992 when she co-founded a media incubator that launched non-governmental news organizations in newly independent Ukraine. She then led a $7 million grant from USAID with Internews until 1994. Dora has grown businesses through marketing at brands such as McGraw-Hill, Thomson Reuters, and Baby Jogger. Dora holds an A.B from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. She is fluent in English and Ukrainian. Dora joined the board of Razom shortly after it was founded in 2014. Since the full-scale invasion by Russia, Dora has led Razom during a period of transformation and growth, first as President of the Board and now as CEO.

Sergii Gorbachov has been Education Ombudsman of Ukraine since August 2019. He is also active as a member of the Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Sergii has many years of experience in the educational and journalistic sectors. From 2015-2019, he was the headmaster and a teacher of media literacy and foreign literature at Ivan Bagryany specialized school (I-III degrees No. 148) in Kyiv which provides in-depth study of the Ukrainian language and its literature.
Before this, he was the director of the information center of the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper and website, coordinator of publishing projects of the Consortium for the Improvement of Management Education in Ukraine (CEUME), Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house and newspaper for educators “Prosvita” (Zaporizhia) and the publishing house of educational and methodical literature, and initiator of creation, co-founder and director of Lyceum for gifted children “Logos” Lyceum (Zaporizhia).

From 1989–1994, Sergii was employed as Deputy of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council, member of the Commission on Education and Science, Deputy of the Zaporizhzhia City Council, and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Publicity, Mass Media and Public Organizations.

Sergii studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Zaporizhia Pedagogical Institute and used to work as a teacher of Russian language and literature at a secondary school.

Matthew Stearns is the Country Director for International Medical Corps in Ukraine. Previously, he served as Country Director for the global humanitarian organization’s Afghanistan and South Sudan operations. He has worked in the humanitarian relief sector for more than a decade, starting as a volunteer with South Sudan Medical Relief in Old Fangak, South Sudan, in 2009. Before joining International Medical Corps, Stearns held several positions with Médecins Sans Frontières in various countries, including Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and South Sudan. He started working with International Medical Corps as a Field Site Manager during an emergency response in Haiti in 2016, and served as Country Director in South Sudan for nearly two years before transitioning to the position in Afghanistan. He joined the Ukraine team in 2022. Stearns has a B.A. in Philosophy from Whitman College.

Dariusz Szymczycha is the First Vice President of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. He coordinates a support platform for the reconstruction of Ukraine, the Humanitarian Aid Fund and the support for the decentralization in Ukraine.
Previously, he worked as editor-in-chief of the daily “Trybuna”. Then, in the years from 2002-2005, he was the Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski. In this role, he was responsible for the preparation of the presidential campaign to mobilize participation in the referendum on Poland’s accession to the European Union (turnout 58.85%, 77.45% in favor of accession). He also participated in the Polish mission of goodwill during the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine in 2004.

Maciej Powroźnik is Managing Partner at Sec Newgate. He has 20 years of experience woking for Poland’s leading companies, such as Grupa Lotos and Ciech. Throughout his career, Maciej has held a number of management positions in the following areas: external/internal communication, public relations, investment relations, strategy, international relations, government relations, and lobbing. He has developed and executed crisis communication strategies in several major companies with international operations. He has also cooperated with think tanks such as the Atlantic Council and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, representing Polish companies abroad.​

At the agency, his areas of expertise include the cooperation with their international clients, including international visa services outsourcing provider VFS Global, the Italian recruitment services provider Gi Group, the PGM recycling and urban mining expert of Polish origin Elemental Holding and the Polish industrial group Boryszew.​

Mariia Sulialina is the head of the Center for Civic Education Almenda. The organization’s mission is to approach the reintegration of the population of (de)occupied territories and lay the foundations for guarantees of non-repetition. She is a member of the Humanitarian Policy group of the Crimea Platform Expert Network and specializes in the protection of children’s rights, with a special focus on the population of the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Clara Sandoval is a Professor at the School of Law and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex (currently on leave), a founding member of the Essex Transitional Justice Network at Essex, and the Director of Programmes at the Global Survivors Fund, a multistakeholder fund established by Dr Mukwege and Nadia Murat, Nobel Peace Prize laureates (2018), to enable reparation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.

She is an expert in transitional justice, the Inter-American System of Human Rights, reparations, and implementation of human rights orders.

Professor Sandoval has published widely on transitional justice and reparations. She is the co-author of the book “Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflicts”, (Third volume of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, edited by Anne Peters and Christian Marxsen, CUP, 2020).

She has been leading the work of the Fund in Ukraine for the set up of urgent interim reparation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.

Victoria is a Scottish solicitor and consultant to REDRESS, an international human rights organisation based in London and The Hague, and the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, an international legal research institute based in The Hague. With REDRESS, she works on asset confiscation and financial accountability with the aim of financing reparations for victims of the conflict in Ukraine. With the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, she has been working on the project ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s Capacity to Investigate and Prosecute International Crimes’ in partnership with Global Rights Compliance and funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2021, as well as the institute’s other Ukraine-related activities. Prior to this, Victoria worked in private practice in the UK, for Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights, Global Rights Compliance and at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.

James Patrick Sexton is a junior researcher in public international law at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, a research centre for international and European law based in The Hague, the Netherlands. He holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University and an LL.B. in Scots Law from the University of Glasgow, the latter of which included a year of study at the University of Copenhagen.

At the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, James works within the research strand: ‘In the Public Interest: Accountability of the State and the Prosecution of Crimes’. In this role, he has contributed to several commissioned projects, including the MATRA-Ukraine project, “Strengthening Ukraine’s Capacity to Investigate and Prosecute International Crimes”.

James’ primary research interests are unilateral sanctions, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law, with an overall factual focus on the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. His recent publications address, among others, the securing of funds for Ukraine’s reconstruction through enforcing sanctions violations, as well as the international human rights and security considerations of “Magnitsky Sanctions”.

Alek Korab is a media leader based in Brooklyn. He co-founded the news website Newsful, which specializes in providing engaging information to a global audience through powerful syndication partners such as Apple News, MSN, Yahoo!, and more. Alek also co-founded ETNT Health, a prominent voice on the coronavirus, which achieved rapid growth with expert guidance from renowned institutions.
Throughout his career, Alek has served as Editor-in-Chief of Metro US and Global Content Director for Metro International. He has worked on media projects in 19 countries and over 30 cities, specializing in news, global affairs, health, sports, and environmental sectors.

Iuliia Markhel is a Ukrainian environmental activist, youth leader, blogger, and social activist with 20 years of experience. She is best known as the leader of the NGO Let’s Do It Ukraine, the largest environmental movement in Ukraine that unites more than 3.5 million Ukrainians. She is also a founding member of the international movements Let’s Do It World and School Recycling World.

Iuliia was one of the first ecoactivists to talk about ecocide in Ukraine as a result of the war, and the ecological consequences of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP on June 6, 2023.

In the first days of the full-scale war in Ukraine, she created the international humanitarian project Let’s Do it Ukraine SOS. Iuliia managed to unite about 10,000 volunteers to carry out humanitarian missions and help Ukrainians with basic necessities, such as food, clothes, and personal hygiene products.

Grzegorz Gruca is the Vice-President of Polish Humanitarian Action, as well as a Member of its Management Board. He is an expert in the field of humanitarian assistance, who has been involved in PHA missions to Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Ukraine, and has participated in humanitarian missions to North Korea.

Between 1990 and 1994, Mr Gruca worked as an executive manager and consultant at various trade companies. From 1995 to 1997, he was the NGO liaison coordinator of the Warsaw office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He has worked for PHA since 1997, as a Management Board Member and an Executive Manager. In 1998, Mr Gruca completed a technical cooperation program in the field of Emergency Management at the Agency for International Development of the Government of the United States of America. He is also a member of the Polish Fundraising Association. In November 2011, he was awarded the Bene Merito badge for strengthening Poland’s position on the international stage by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2016, he joined the regional round-tables, organized by NOHA and the European Commission as part of the preparation for the World Humanitarian Summit. In 2017, he obtained a certificate for the Technical Experts Course from the Union Civil Protection Mechanism Training Programme, which is honored by the European Commission.

Born and raised in Kyiv in the family of a doctor, Oleksandr Stakhovskyi graduated from the National Medical University in 2004. After completing his residency at the “National Medical Academy and the Institute of Urology, he spent six months at the Institute Mutualiste Montsouris in Paris (France), learning laparoscopic urological surgery. He then graduated from the University of Toronto (Canada) and returned to the National Cancer Institute of Ukraine to join the urological department. He completed his PhD thesis on kidney cancer operative management in 2015.

Oleksandr was a cofounder of the Ukrainian Society of Clinical Oncology (USCO) which became a major platform for communication between Ukrainian oncologists, organizing conferences and promoting knowledge and educational opportunities for the next generation of oncologists. After completing his final Doctor of Medicine thesis, Oleksandr joined the Ukrainian Military Medical Academy as a professor in 2023, while providing care for uro-oncological patients in NCI. His research focusses on molecular biomarkers of advanced bladder cancer, prostate and kidney cancer surgical management and minimally invasive urological surgery.

In 2023, he was accepted to the Surgical Leadership Program of Harvard Medical School and is looking to graduate from this world-renowned university in 2024.

Ievgen Ivanov holds a Master of Biology from Kharkiv National University and a master´s degree from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Since November 2022, he has been active as Deputy Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration.

Olena Nikolaienko is a strategist, marketer and doctor and one of the founders of the Future for Ukraine charity foundation. She has approximately 14 years of work experience in the world’s leading pharmaceutical corporations and the medical industry, having worked in managerial marketing positions at MSD, Sanofi and Jonson&Jonson. Since 2022, she has been engaged in charity work.
Olena is the developer of the strategy and concept for the launch of the “Future for Ukraine” fund as a global presenter of Ukraine in the field of charity. Her expertise includes concept and business model development, fundraising strategy and team management.

Yevhen Fedchenko, Ph.D, is the co-founder and Chief Editor of the fact-checking website StopFake.org, a leading hub of expertise on Russian disinformation. He is also the Director of the Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. He advises on issues of tackling disinformation and media literacy, is an active commentator of Ukrainian politics and regularly speaks at numerous high-level international conferences.

Yevhen has more than 25 years of experience in the media industry, covering international stories. After moving to academia, his main interests are information wars, propaganda and weaponization of information, coverage of international politics in media and public diplomacy, digital journalism and innovations, journalism education in transitional societies, and news standards. He has contributed his comments to the NYT, RFE/RL, BBC, NPR, WNYC, Politico, Public Radio International, Radio Canada International, CBC, Mashable, SKY, etc.

Yevhen was a Fulbright visiting professor at USC Annenberg (Los Angeles, USA) from 2010-2011 and is now a visiting professor at Media at Risk Center, Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania.

Muthana Alhayou is the East Area Manager of Polish Humanitarian Action. In this role, he is responsible for providing technical leadership for big multi-sectoral programs.
As a specialist in humanitarian work and crisis response leader, he has signed and implemented relief and transition programs in some of the world’s most challenging conditions. He has worked extensively to combat humanitarian crises in numerous countries across several continents, including Türkiye, Syria, and Ukraine.
Since becoming PAH’s East Area Manger in 2021, Muthana has established strong links with technical cluster groups and local authorities, analyzing the continuous changes in the field and providing focused guidance along with early mitigation measures that contributed to the development of the intervention strategy and technical research to ensure the quality of the service provided and the project´s humanitarian orientation.
He has over 10 years of experience coordinating global programs and operations and has held various senior leadership positions at multinational and mid-size organizations in a variety of sectors (logistics, livelihood, CASH, early recovery, nutrition, governance). He has furthermore successfully coordinated numerous programs and operations in the Middle East and Europe.
Despite holding a degree in pharmacy, Muthana decided to take up humanitarian work to contribute to the creation of better living conditions for people affected by conflicts and humanitarian crises.

Joanna Jozefiak is the president of Mediciner – International Healthcare Association, a humanitarian organization based in Frankfurt Oder (Germany), and CEO of Brandmed Slubice, the first Polish-German medical center where both Poles working in Germany and Germans from the border region can apply for medical treatment. She is an expert in the field of international relations, strategic operations and financial management of healthcare systems, as well as crisis management. Joanna was directly involved in the invention of innovations in healthcare, e.g. during the Covid19 pandemic.

Joanna is furthermore the first Polish woman granted the title of Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE), an international negotiation diploma granted by the US. She is a venerated speaker on healthcare issues in Poland, Germany,the USA and Switzerland, and one of the most influential advocates for the Polish community abroad, also known as Polonia.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February ‘22, she has been coordinating medical humanitarian aid for hospitals in Ukraine on behalf of German and American clinics as well as private donors.

Yaroslav Romanchuk consults clients on the most complex issues of corporate, tax and customs law, transfer pricing, commercialization of intellectual property, tax planning using intangible assets, business restructuring, asset protection, fraud and corruption risk management in the corporate sector. He has experience in conducting forensic investigations, is a certified anti-fraud expert and holds an international certificate in FIDIC (Practical Use of FIDIC Conditions of Contracts, provided by AECU). Yaroslav represents the interests of both national and international companies in the most complex disputes. With a high level of awareness of the Polish and Ukrainian business environment, he successfully provides legal support to international companies when entering the Ukrainian market and to Ukrainian companies when entering European markets.

Yaroslav is recommended as a leading domestic expert in tax law by authoritative international legal directories, such as Chambers&Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, World Tax, World TP. According to the handbook “Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients and TOP-50 Law Firms of Ukraine 2013-2022”, Yaroslav is among the TOP-5 lawyers in the field of tax law. Yaroslav participates in legislative processes during the creation and improvement of draft tax laws. He is the author of numerous publications in Ukrainian and foreign media and regularly participates in various conferences in Ukraine and abroad.

Christopher Fussner founded TransTechnology Pte. Ltd. in Singapore in 1988, a major distributor of surface mount technology and semiconductor capital equipment. Headquartered in Singapore, Trans-Tec has 235 employees worldwide.

Mr. Fussner received his B.A. in History and East Asian Studies from George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs (1979), and his M.I.M. (Master of International Management) from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona (1982). He is recognized as an experienced observer and astute analyst of Southeast Asian affairs.

Mr. Fussner has served on a variety of non-profit boards and organizations, such as the Board of Directors of the International Republican Institute (IRI). Previously, he was active as the Republican National Committee (RNC) Representative and as Assistant Chairman to the International Democrat Union (IDU), a global organization of over 50 international political parties around the world. He was also a member of the IDU Observer Mission to Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Mission Chair heading an IDU mission to Ukraine in March. Furthermore, he was an IRI International Election Observer in Mongolia (2016), Timor Leste (2017), and Tunisia (2019).

Anna Dąbrowska is a human rights activist, social animator, and president of the Homo Faber association in Lublin. Since 2009, she has dealt with the impact of migration on the local community, and is currently involved in programming an integration policy at city level. In 2021, she was one of the founders of the Granica Group operating on the Polish-Belarusian border. On February 24, 2022, she co-founded the Lublin Social Committee for Aid to Ukraine – an intersectoral platform for humanitarian aid. Anna is furthermore writing her PhD thesis on Ukrainian migration in Poland after 2014.

“We care about systemic, multi-threaded and constant support for both refugees and the local community by building cross-sector partnerships.”

Olena Lapenko has been working in the energy sector for over 15 years. She started her career at the DSO as an engineer. She also worked at the TSO and for a private company, which is the largest electricity producer in Ukraine. Olena has experience both in the technical field (dispatching) and in the commercial part (electricity sales). She is currently engaged in the analysis of the development of the electricity market and the problems of energy security.

Kamil Wyszkowski has been employed by the UN since 2002. Between 2002 and 2009, he worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he was responsible for international and multilateral cooperation as well as the development programme in Europe and in Asia. Between 2009 and 2014, he was Head of Office at UNDP Poland, before which he was active as National Representative and President of the Board at UN Global Compact Network Poland – UN GCNP, a UN network coordinating cooperation with businesses, cities, universities, public administration, and non-governmental organizations on behalf of United Nations Global Compact. He has also worked as National Representative and Executive Director at UN GCNP and as director of the Know-How Hub.

Grzegorz Dubik, MSc., is the Chairman of the Podkarpackie Regional Chamber of Civil Engineers in Rzeszów and a Member of the Council of the Polish Chamber of Civil Engineers in Warsaw, where he leads the commission for cooperation with Ukraine. He is a civil engineer and in possession of a building license in the construction specialty to design and manage construction works without limits, which he received in 2002. Grzegorz is the head of a company that performs projects, gives expert opinions and supervises civil engineering projects. He has many years of experience as an consultant on infrastructural investments based on FIDIC Contracts. Grzegorz has led many design projects and has much expertise in building and engineering construction.

Antonina Zubkova has many years of experience in the successful management of charitable and commercial projects. During her time in business, she has mastered the art of team and business process management, and the experience and knowledge accumulated during this time have become a valuable tool on her path to success in the field of charity. Currently, she works as the Chief Operations Officer at the Ukrainian Charitable Foundation “Enjoying Life”. In this role, she creates and coordinates important projects aimed at improving the quality of life for senior citizens, from addressing basic needs to providing education and self-realization opportunities. Since the onset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has been leading projects that provide humanitarian aid to front-line settlements and previously occupied territories. Antonina collaborates productively with other organizations in Ukraine, uniting the efforts of volunteers, businesses, and representatives of the civil sector. With the escalation of military aggression from Russia, she devotes significant time to projects focused on the psychological support for elderly individuals who have become victims of this aggression, providing them with professional psychological assistance to ensure their resilience and inner equilibrium.

Bolesław Pałac is an electrical engineer, a graduate of the Rzeszów University of Technology, and a long-term employee at Elektromontaż Rzeszów SA and Eltor Rzeszów. He has 40 years of experience in the implementation of power facilities and power installations in municipal, industrial, road, hospital and educational facilities. Currently, he conducts engineering activities at his own Electrical Engineering Office and supervises many complex investment projects with significant price values.
Bolesław has unlimited design and construction qualifications in the electrical industry. He is a member of the Podkarpackie Regional Chamber of Civil Engineers, a member of the Examination Committee for qualification qualifications E and D in the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, and a member of the Examination Committee for electrical construction qualifications in the Podkarpackie Chamber of Civil Engineers.
For many years, Bolesław has used his professional and organizational experience for association activities of electricians. Currently, he is the Vice-President of the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers and, under the authority of the Main Board of SEP, he is responsible for the cooperation of the Association with Ukrainian association organizations and energy companies. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, he has coordinated the SEP Association’s help for Ukrainian power engineers and the Lviv University of Technology.

Rafał Potępa, MSc., is a Member of the Małopolska Regional Council of the Chamber of Civil Engineers and a seasoned civil engineer. In 2015, he acquired E&C, a company originally founded in 2011, and has since served as its Owner and CEO, specializing in infrastructure construction design. Rafał´s expertise in the field is demonstrated by his possession of a building license in bridge engineering which allows him to design and manage construction works without limit. Under his leadership, E&C has seen significant growth and innovation as a result of his professional acumen and his personal passion for technology.

Andrzej Wrebiak is a partner and senior transaction adviser with over 30 years of experience in business strategy consulting and M&A advisory. As a leader and consultant, he has participated in numerous consulting projects, and has actively participated in the economic transformation of Poland after 1989. In 1990, he co-founded and became a shareholder and chairman of Warszawska Grupa Konsultingowa and its successors. In the late 90s, he served as chairman of the Polish Association of Business Advisors and worked as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Federation of Consulting Associations (FEACO) in Brussels. From 2004 to 2015, he participated in the work of The International Merger and Acquisition Partners (IMAP) – the global network of independent transaction advisors. He was involved as a leader and senior consultant in numerous projects in the area of management consultants and M&A advisory. Since 2017, Empiria Consulting (Warsaw) ‘s CEO has actively cooperated with the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. Currently, Andrzej serves as the chairman of the Business Development Committee and CEO of the Business Advisory Center in the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. He is also a founding member of the Polish Biomethane Association.

Andrzej holds a Ph.D. in economics and was a faculty member at the Research Institute for Developing Countries of the Warsaw School of Economics.

Yuriy Ruban has considerable experience in the provision of housing for forced migrants. In particular, from 1992 to 2007, while holding various positions at the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, he dealt with issues of housing construction and helped with the resettlement of people who suffered from the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster and the flooding of territories. In 2008, he became the director of RPTA “Regional Development Strategy” LLC. As such, he has provided design and engineering-technical supervision of the construction and reconstruction (restoration) of social, infrastructural facilities and housing.
Furthermore, as President of the All-Ukrainian public organization “Guild of Designers in Construction”, he ensures the protection of the rights and interests of engineers and designers in the construction industry and promotes the introduction of world-leading experience and the latest technologies into the construction industry of Ukraine. Since the start of the full-scale aggression against Ukraine, he has worked as a consulting engineer to ensures compliance with construction technologies in the process of reconstruction and construction of social and infrastructure facilities.

Pritan Ambroase is a film director, producer, media entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is originally from Kent (England) and continues to be globally praised for combining entertainment, philanthropy and education to further humanitarianism and unite people all over the world. As one of the few CEOs who has physically protested for human rights in more than 25 countries, he has been nicknamed the ‘Rebel with A Cause’.

Pritan is the CEO of ‘The Hollywood Insider’ media network which has banned gossip and scandal and focuses solely on substance and meaningful entertainment by combining entertainment, education and philanthropy. He is also the President of the ‘Masters of Cinema Awards’ which recognize excellence and extraordinary contributions to the world of cinema which do not involve campaigning and politics. At the age of 18, Pritan started the philanthropic organization called ‘Humans of Our World Foundation’ which has continued to help people in need in over 190 countries around the world.

Pritan’s values were considerably shaped by his diverse upbringing. By the time he graduated from 12th grade, he had attended 11 different schools, of which 6 were boarding schools, in seven different countries and three different continents. This way, he had come to know a plethora of languages, cultures, religions and worlds. The experience of having seen such vastly different cultures and the similarities between them shaped his wish to unite the world through education, entertainment and philanthropy.

Prof. Zbigniew Lasocik, Ph.D., is a professor of law and criminology at the University of Warsaw and the director of its Human Trafficking Studies Centre. He is also an expert of the European Commission, the OSCE and the Council of Europe and has served as Regional Director the EU PHARE/TACIS Democracy Program where he was responsible for Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. He has participated in over 60 international fact-finding and monitoring missions around the world.

Professor Lasocik is the former President of the Polish Section of the International Commission of Jurists, a former member of the United Nations’ Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, and the author of 130 publications in criminology, human rights, human trafficking, torture prevention and prison systems. He has been a recipient of numerous scholarships and has visited numerous universities, among others Columbia University (New York), Harvard University (Boston), Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires), John Jay College of Criminal Justice (New York), Sam Houston State University (Huntsville), California State University, and the London School of Economics (London).

Hanna Zaytseva is an activist and the wife of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. Together with her child, she is the protagonist of the movie production “Freedom on Fire” which tells the story of the Ukrainian people living in conditions of war after the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022. Hanna and her child spent 65 days in the Azovstal plant’s bomb shelter in Mariupol, which was attacked by Russian troops. She survived interrogations in an enemy filtration camp. Her husband, Kyrylo, a soldier of Azov battalion, is still in Russian captivity.

Jakub Grzebielec is a positive, results-driven, and innovative professional, with experience in many areas. He holds a master´s degree from the Warsaw School of Economics and a degree in engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology, both of which he graduated from with grade A. He started his carrier as a consultant at the Data Warehouse division of a commercial union insurance company in Warsaw.

Jakub has 20 years of experience working in the management boards of Globe Trade Centre and Capital Park, during which he has proven his ability to effectively combine analytical skills and technological background with a business-oriented approach and economic understanding. For 10 years, he was managing all HR processes of GTC Poland as the organization´s HR Director. Between 2007 and 2023, he held managerial positions in real estate developer companies as IT Manager and Director.

In recent years, Jakub has started to engage in charity activities. For the last four years, he has been Vice-President of the ‘We Give Wings’ Foundation for Social Development. His organization has actively supported Ukrainian refugees since the beginning of the Russian invasion. This year, Jakub personally attended his first humanitarian convoy to Ukraine.

Bartosz Staniszewski is a strategist and media expert, and the President of Brandfeed agency. For years, he has supported the communication of major brands, having worked for companies such as Uber, OTOMOTO, Chopin Airport, and G2A Arena. His passion lies in new technologies and content formats. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, he has been actively involved in relief efforts, building and executing communication strategies for the World For Ukraine Summit. Privately, he’s a sports enthusiast, marathon runner, and avid cyclist.

Kateryna Odarchenko is a political strategist, partner of SIC group USA LLC, and the head of the nonprofit organization Institute for Democracy and Development “PolitA”. She has nine years of experience in democracy building and democracy campaign management.
Kateryna is the author of 500+ publications about transparent public administration, campaign management, good governance, and civil society development, such as the “Election Game” handbook for politicians in Eastern Europe and Central Asia which discusses democracy institution building and control of elections. Kateryna has initiated several bills about democratic elections, women’s rights, and stronger institutions in Ukraine and has worked on several projects with the European Parliament for the implementation of EU laws in Ukrainian legislature. She has organized 12 experience exchange programs for EU professionals and public administrators in the USA, the EU Institutions, UAE, and Israel.
Furthermore, she has more than five years of experience in cooperation with Ukrainian and Eastern European press, often writes for American think tanks, and participates in media communication. Kateryna is married and lives in the Washington DC metro area with her three kids. 

Michael Meoli is a Certified Tactical Paramedic (TP-C), retired US Navy SEAL Team Chief and Advanced Tactical Practitioner (ATP) and former Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC). As NAEMT TCCC Affiliate Faculty, Michael Meoli has trained and certified five separate Training Centers in the oblasts of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Lviv. Although not his only service to Defenders of Ukraine, his main focus will again be qualified Ukrainians training other Ukrainian soldiers and Combat Medics.
In his civilian life, Michael is a retired firefighter/paramedic and tactical medic serving local and federal SWAT Teams and he continues to serve in similar functions world-wide.

Kseniia Voznitsyna has been the Head of the Center for Mental Health and Rehabilitation of Veterans “Forest Glade” of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine since 2018. She received her medical degree from Kharkiv National Medical University and completed the “Leaders for Mental Health Program” at the Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Kseniia Vosnitsyna is a neurologist, MD. Her main expertise is the treatment of post-concussion syndrome. She is the leading national expert in the development of a mental health service system for veterans and has contributed to the development of the National Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Program, initiated by the First Lady Olena Zelenska.

Ksenia Vosnitsyna has been serving veterans since 2014. At Forest Glade, Kseniia Vosnitsyna and her team are developing a resource and training center. She was at work on February 24, when Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At that time, all veteran patients returned to service. Since May 2022, the patients treated at Forest Glade, who are serviceman with combat stress, PTSD, mTBI, limb amputations, and survivors of captivity and torture, have received multidisciplinary care.

Angelika Nocón graduated from the Silesian University, Poland, in the field of culture and anthropology. For most of her professional life, she has been a community organizer and project coordinator for local and international projects focused on cultural, educational and social topics. She has cooperated with various nonprofits that work in the fields of social inclusion, quality education, sustainable cities and communities and climate action. Currently, she is Nonprofit Relations Manger at Tech to the Rescue where she is responsible for coordinating the relations with nonprofits from Europe, CEE and SEA. Tech To The Rescue helps nonrofit organizations that want to scale up their activities through technological solutions by matching them with technological partners.

Mark Sanor founded 360 One Firm (361Firm) in 2015 after 10 years with a single family office (SFO) investing in deals and funds (often with other SFOs) and 10+ years as a lawyer and M&A Partner at Arthur Andersen and EY in Europe. 361Firm’s global community is now 7K+ of SFOs, institutional investors, funds, and CXOs across 82 countries. They primarily collaborate in four areas: (1) Investments (Allocator Sessions, Core members with first access & intelligence, fund formations); (2) Raising Capital ($8B+ to date in funds/companies by our broker-dealer platform); (3) Connecting Partners/Talent (including our CIO Council); and (4) Optimizing Philanthropy and NextGens (interconnecting for powerful results) 360 stems from hosting alumni roundtables since 2005 and “One Firm” from Andersen’s global collaborative culture where Mark and other 361 team were originally partners. They have hosted events in 78+ cities and 20+ countries, also via Zoom with Tuesday 11am Briefings, Deep Dives and 10:30am Meetups.

Edwin Bendyk is Chairman of the Board of the Stefan Batory Foundation. He is a journalist, writer, and columnist for Polityka, a Polish weekly newspaper, for which he writes about civilisation issues and the relations between science and technology and politics, economy, culture, and social life. The author of many books, he published “In Poland, or Everywhere. An essay on the decline and future of the world’ in 2020. Edwin is the editor and co-author of the final report of the National Foresight Programme Poland 2020, and the author and co-author of several strategic and foresight studies at the urban, regional, and national level.

During the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, Edwin curated the programme “City of the Future/Laboratory Wrocław.” He was also the co-organiser of the Congress of Culture in 2016 and is a member of the Polish PEN-Club and the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is the winner of many awards, including the Planet Lem Prize in the field of culture, and runs the blog ‘Antymatrix’.

Igor Horków is the President of the Przemyśl Branch of the Association of Ukrainians in Poland. He is a co-founder of the “Harmonious Initiative of Przemyśl residents for the 100th anniversary of Poland’s independence TOGETHER for 100”, which aims to develop a positive model of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in Przemyśl, a city with a complex history of Polish-Ukrainian relations. He furthermore initiated the “Pozna-йcie nas” project aimed at fighting stereotypes among youth in Przemyśl.

A graduate of the 13th edition of the “Polish-American Leaders Program” and the 11th edition of the “Two Sectors – One Vision” program, he has been managing the staff of the Communal Information Point of Support for Ukraine at the Ukrainian House in Przemyśl since February 24, 2022. The team coordinates its own activities with the local government and Voivodeship administration. Since then, the Association of Ukrainians in Poland Przemyśl Branch has started or continued cooperation with the Stefan Batory Foundation, Polish Humanitarian Action, CARE America, OXFAM GB, the National Notary Council, the Danish Refugee Council, the Association for Legal Intervention, Action Aid, Avaaz, and the Henryk Wujec Civic Foundation.

The activities of the AUP Przemyśl Branch for refugees are constantly being developed, which is possible thanks to the support of partners and the commitment of volunteers. Since February 24, 2022, over 900 volunteers have been involved in the activities of the Association of Ukrainians in Poland Przemyśl Branch.

Jakub Olek is Head of Public Policy and Government Relations, Central & Eastern Europe and Ukraine at TikTok. He is a government relations and market access expert with a law degree and international experience gained across many tech industries in Europe, Africa, Asia and Middle East. Previously, he worked for Lime and Santander and was involved in tech and innovation. He is also an IRONMAN distance age group triathlete.

Joanna Hajduk is Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Technical Advisor at Save the Children Poland and a qualified psychotherapist. She joined Save the Children in 2022 but has previous experience in the humanitarian sector, having worked for Polish Humanitarian Action in Poland and Romania. Furthermore, she has volunteered on the Belarusian and Ukrainian borders during the present humanitarian crisis. In her current role at Save the Children, she is responsible for introducing and mentoring MHPSS interventions in SC Poland programs in schools, libraries, child friendly spaces and alternative care centers.

Tamara Poltoratska is Communication Manager at the non-profit vegetarian food relief organization Food For Life Ukraine, which serves healthy food to those in need. In 2022, Food for Life Ukraine expanded its charitable activities to help those affected by the war. Tamara is originally from the Donbass region, which has been occupied by Russia for nine years. In 2014, she moved to Kyiv and never returned home. Tamara has a background in law, but throughout her career she has been fascinated with social volunteering on an international scale and fundraising for nonprofits. Her first project was dedicated to fostering rural development in abandoned regions of India, later she volunteered for a German-Ukrainian-Polish post-WWII reconciliation project in Poland and raised funds for a number of human rights and civic education projects in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. In 2015-2018, Tamara worked as a Grants & Contracts Assistant at Pact Inc. (Kyiv), working on the implementation of USAID projects aimed at increasing citizen awareness of and engagement in civic actions at the national, regional and local level in Ukraine. After the outbreak of the war, Tamara joined Food For Life Ukraine to help its development through her professional expertise.

Brett Lea is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who last served as the PAO for the 82nd Airborne Div. He held PAO positions at Fort Bliss before working for two years as the Army’s liaison to the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. He oversaw the development of compelling entertainment media and coordinated support for many projects including feature films and award-winning TV series that supported the Army’s strategic communication objectives to inform and inspire the American public. He led PAO operations for the evacuation of Afghanistan responsible for communicating about the evacuation of NATO forces and over 124k civilians while messaging with U.S. and international agencies and handling media engagements with only a patchwork staff. Brett also served in Poland as the lead PAO for a multi-agency, multi-nation mission to support Ukraine’s efforts against Russia. His team communicated the mission to diverse audiences in the U.S. and globally. He is President of Discourse Digital. They recently launched the SMART (Social Media Awareness and Readiness Training) to help organizations educate their members about social media. SMART focuses on protecting social media users and arming them with tools to safely navigate the Information Domain. Brett focuses his efforts to counter mis- and disinformation used against US servicemembers and has years of demonstrated expertise managing public relations campaigns in dynamic, and often chaotic, information environments.

Kostiantyn Barmin has been the deputy mayor since February 2014. He is responsible for the development and implementation of state policy in the field of housing and utility services, providing residents with high-quality housing and utility services. He manages the activities of the Department of Housing, Utility Services and Ecology of the Chuhuiv City Council and coordinates the work of enterprises that provide services for water and heat supply, maintenance of apartment buildings and municipal waste management. He also takes care of the implementation of energy-saving technologies in the community.

Natalia Yehorovets is Project Coordinator and Moderator at the World for Ukraine Foundation. Natalia has a masters degree in journalism and over 20 years of experience in the media production industry and publishing. Previously, she worked on Ukrainian TV as a Chief Editor and a Chief Scriptwriter for numerous shows. Today, Natalia is the Chief Editor of Clio Publishers, Kyiv, Ukraine. She has translated several books from English into Ukrainian, as well as from Ukrainian into English.

As a member of the content team of W4UA, she became one of the authors of the annual report of the Summit 2022. She is a knowledgable information technology professional who graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, National University, Ukraine.

Timur Bondaryev has more than 20 years of professional legal experience and is the Founding Partner and Managing Partner of the law firm Arzinger – the largest independent law firm with its head office in Kyiv and regional branches in Western and Southern Ukraine.
Timur Bondarev is a respected lawyer with an exceptional reputation in the Ukrainian and international markets. Timur specializes in supporting complex transactions, investment arbitration disputes, and antitrust investigations in Ukraine and abroad with the participation of international and national investors. Timur’s expertise in transactional support, real estate, and antitrust law has been recognized for many years by leading Ukrainian and international ratings, including Chambers, Legal 500, Best Lawyers etc.
Timur has been a valuable member of different committees of the International Bar Association and American Bar Association for many years and participated as a speaker in a great variety of international professional conferences.

Ela Janczur is a Chilren’s Villages Representative working with the Eastern European countries, Central Asia and the Middle East. Furthermore, she is a Board Member of SOS Ukraine and a leader of the Global SOS Project which is aimed at fostering partnerships between NGOs and governments.

Dominika Uczkiewicz is a lawyer and historian, her research interests lie in the field of transitional justice, legal history and German-Polish relations with a particular focus on the history of international criminal law and the war crimes trials after the Second World War. Between 2016 and 2021, she was working as a researcher at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław. Currently, she is working as an assistant professor at the Centre for Totalitarian Studies at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw. Her recent publications include “Polish and German Perspectives on Transitional Justice. World War Two and its Aftermath” (Wrocław 2021), a volume edited together with Wolfgang Form, a monograph on the war crimes policy of the Polish government in exile in London (1939-1945) (Warszawa 2022) and a volume edited together with Patrycja Grzebyk “The Russian-Ukrainian War. Challenges to the Documentation and to the Prosecution of International Crimes” (forthcoming).

Tomasz Srebnicki, PhD, is a psychologist, child and adolescent psychotherapy specialist, certified cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist of the Polish Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy and certified supervisor-didactician of the Polish Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy. He is furthermore a Member of the Scientific Council of the CBT Center, a lecturer and supervisor in specialization training in child and adolescent psychotherapy, as well as a lecturer in training in community-based therapy for children and adolescents.

He completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Developmental Age Psychiatry at the Medical University of Warsaw. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Developmental Age Psychiatry at the Warsaw Medical University, a university teacher, and a senior assistant at the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic of the Independent State Children’s Clinical Hospital of the University Clinical Center of the WUM.

He is also the author and co-author of numerous publications on psychology, psychotherapy and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Ms Deborah Ruiz Verduzco is the Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). In this capacity, Ms Ruiz Verduzco is responsible for ensuring the TFV is successfully implementing its mission to give effect to victims’ right to reparations (which may take the form of restitution, compensation or rehabilitation), facilitate the implementation of awards made by the ICC against convicted persons and undertake initiatives for the benefit of victims and their families. Through its programmes and activities the TFV aims to contribute to redressing the harm suffered by victims of Rome Statute crimes.

Yevhen Popov is the Head of the Research and Civic Partnerships departments in Osavul, a software company focused on developing AI-powered solutions to protect states, businesses and society from information threats. Yevhen holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an MPP from the London School of Economics. His expertise extends to the realm of disinformation and foreign interference, where he collaborated with renowned institutions like ZOIS in Berlin and the Alliance of Democracy in Copenhagen. He previously assumed the role of leading the regional office in southern Ukraine for the International Renaissance Foundation. He is also a co-founder of the biggest voting advise application platform in Ukraine – www.iVote.com.ua and Politscanner.app.

A graduate of the Cracow University of Economics, Ryszard Chmura started his business adventure already during his studies by setting up his own event agency. In 2009, he joined the BNI community, where he learned the methods and tools for growing a business through referrals. As a result, he expanded his company, increasing the employment from 1 person to 200 employees in 6 years. In BNI, he found partners for other companies, as a result of which he created PromoHolding, generating tens of millions of PLN in revenue annually.

Ryszard Chmura in BNI has worked his way up from Chapter Member, Regional Director, franchisee to being the owner of BNI in Poland. In 2014, he became the youngest BNI National Director in the world. The experience he gained while working on the development of BNI inspired him to launch an organization in Poland for owners of the biggest companies with revenues of more than PLN 100 million – an organization that already brings together nearly 200 entrepreneurs.

Ryszard Chmura is enthusiastically involved in projects aimed at helping others. Among them is the „Help for Ukraine” initiative, under which material and financial support was provided with a total value exceeding PLN 400 million. As part of this action, a Grand Charity Auction was held, co-organized every year by Corporate Connections as Top Charity, together with Rafał Brzoska and Omena Mensah.

Right to Protection CF (R2P) is a distinguished Ukrainian human rights and humanitarian organization with a dedicated focus on safeguarding the rights and well-being of vulnerable populations. Their core mission revolves around the protection of IDPs, CAP, refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless individuals. As the Advocacy Coordinator at R2P, Oksana leads a team of accomplished advocacy legal experts. Together, they are committed to a multifaceted approach that prioritizes the welfare of populations impacted by war. Their key areas of focus encompass internally and externally displaced persons, children, PwDs, and other affected groups. Their efforts include enhancing the social protection system during periods of war, post-war transitions, establishing sustainable, long-term housing solutions for IDPs, property rights protection, introducing effective mechanisms of compensation for damages caused by war, advocating for the right to freedom of movement, ensuring unrestricted access to medical services for vulnerable populations, safeguarding the best interests of children deprived of parental care, developing mechanisms for reintegration of children evacuated or deported, advocating for the digitalization of public services. Oksana is driven by the commitment to upholding human rights, promoting social justice, and creating a more inclusive and equitable society to bring positive change to the lives of those in need.

Eva Hussain is a prominent expert in the fields of language services and European citizenship. She is the founder of Polaron and plays an active role in the global development of the company. Eva is a certified practicing translator and interpreter, as well as an examiner and a member of NAATI’s Regional Advisory Council. She is a member of various networks and boards, including Victorian Refugee Health Network, Southern Homelessness Services Network and the Association of Polish Jews. Winner of several business and equity awards, in March 2022, Eva was appointed as Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Austria in Victoria. Over the years, Eva has made a tremendous voluntary contribution to the translation and interpreting industry and the Polish and Jewish community globally. Her lived experience as a refugee from Poland fuels her passion for community work and bridge building.

Originally from Korets in the Rivne region, Viktor graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, majoring in journalism. He has worked in various positions in the Ukrainian media and has held several managerial positions in PR services and in the press services of state bodies. He later earned the position of state expert of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on issues of inclusive education and extracurricular education.

His personal qualities include creativity, system thinking, management skills, efficiency and result orientation, and the ability to work in a team and in crisis situations.

Dr. Olena Bidovanets is a psychotherapist with a Master’s degree in Global Health. She is a Fulbright Alumna (Fulbright Foreign Student Program (2021-2023), University of Washington, School of Public Health, Department of Global Health). Dr. Bidovanets completed an internship at the Boulder Crest Foundation and is a Boulder Crest Fellow. She is a NASHI board member and co-founder of NASHI, the Immigrant Health Board in Washington State. Currently, Dr. Bidovanets is working on a pilot project for Ukrainian refugees based in Washington State on the post-traumatic growth approach.

Weronika Marczuk is the founder and president of the International Embassy of Women Entrepreneurship in Ukraine, Vice-President of the Council of PUIG (Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce), President of the Board of the Friends of Ukraine Foundation (TPU – Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Ukrainy in Warsaw), and Representative and Chief Coordinator for Poland at the International Aid Headquarters for Ukrainians, operating in 75 countries worldwide.

Furthermore, she is a legal advisor, the organizer of international events and projects, a producer, owner, and CEO of the Sting group of companies, and an expert in the Ukrainian market. From 2016 to 2020, she was active as Managing Director of Ukraine’s rail transport company Ukrzaliznytsia and the Polish Business Center in Kiev. Weronika is well-known in both countries for her efforts in bridging the two nations. She is the author of several books, including the art album “O!Ukraine”, which was published in Poland to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Polish-Ukrainian relations and Ukraine’s independence.

Alina Skomorokhova has been the Co-founder and Permanent General Manager of a manufacturing metallurgical company “Tin Impex,” which produces colored and black metals of European quality, since 1998. She is also a co-founder of several solar power generation companies, namely: LLC “Ecotechnik-Yarmolynets,” LLC “Ecotechnik Mykivtsi,” LLC “Solar Energy Nova Ushytsia,” LLC “Ecotechnik-Teofipol,” LLC “Ecotechnik-Kamianets-Podilskyi,” and LLC “Ecotechnik Khmelnytskyi,” where she serves as Director. These Enterprises are involved in the development of environmentally friendly electricity from renewable energy sources.

Since 2018, Alina Skomorokhova has been the Co-founder and Chair of the Board of the “International Organization of Women of Ukraine” (MOZHU), whose mission is to comprehensively support and develop women’s activities in business, social and political life of Ukraine and abroad. She is also an Ambassador of the International Women’s Embassy of Entrepreneurs, Ambassador of Peace, a Senator of the European Economic Senate in Munich, Germany, a Member of the Ukrainian Tax Payers Association, an Economic Advisor to the President of SKUMO, a Member of the Board of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the Khmelnytskyi region in Ukraine, and a Co-organizer of the international women’s business forums “Business Woman.” Additionally, she holds the title of Lady of the Order of Princess Olga, Third Degree.

Liudmyla Rusalina is a Ukrainian woman entrepreneur, the president of the LVR group of companies, which unites a number of production and trading enterprises in various areas of business, such as the production of alcoholic beverages, confectionery and biscuit products, agricultural products, customs and warehouse services, the distribution of spirits products, cosmetics, food products, vehicles; investment projects in the field of construction of commercial and residential real estate. The company’s products are exported to more then 48 countries.

Liudmyla is a public figure, a laureate of international awards, a philanthropist, and an honorary consul of the Republic of Sierra Leone in Ukraine. Her public activity started in 2006 as a deputy of the Cherkasy Regional Council (Ukraine).

Hanna Krysiuk is an Advisor to the Ombudsman, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Ukrainian Parliament, Director General of the World Records Book, owner of the international magazine “Business Woman”, founder and president of the Business Woman Club, initiator of the global environmental initiative “Greening of the Planet”, ambassador of the International Women Entrepreneurs’ Embassy, and initiator and head of the International Assistance Headquarters for Ukrainians.

Hanna Krysiuk is a national and international record-holder for implementing social projects aimed at the restoration of the environment and the consolidation of people. She is an HWPL Ambassador for Peace and an expert in international communication and PR.

Radosław Ostrowski specializes in strategic legal and tax consulting, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) projects, conducts business criminal cases (White Collar), and implements projects in the field of crisis legal management. He has over twenty years of experience in legal and tax advisory for business, including practice in conducting business negotiations with domestic and foreign contractors and in conducting advisory, legal and tax projects, in matters of mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and optimization. He worked for leading Polish companies, e.g. from the furniture, dyeing, consumer goods and automotive industries.

Radosław is a speaker at many conferences and workshops in the field of tax law, commercial law and legal security (Compliance, White Collar). He has worked as an attorney since 2016 and as a Legal Counsel in the years from 2006 – 2013. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (award for the best master’s thesis), he completed his legal counsel training at the District Chamber of Legal Counsels in Rzeszów, where he scored the 1st place in the country in the professional exam.

In May 2022, Brittany assumed the role of Director, Ukraine Telehealth Initiative at Northwell Health’s Center for Global Health. Utilizing her extensive knowledge of Northwell Health’s vast resources, Brittany partnered with the Center for Global Health and the system’s Centralized Transfer Center to establish a Physician-to-Physician Consultation Program. To date, more than 150 consultations have been successfully completed, providing invaluable guidance to Ukrainian medical professionals. Brittany collaborates closely with both Ukrainian and Northwell physicians to ensure seamless and efficient consultations. She has onboarded Ukrainian physicians from 13 different hospitals and clinics and over 30 Northwell clinicians into the international telehealth program. The Initiative has expanded to include clinically guided philanthropy, where Brittany fosters donor relationships and advises on funding based on the needs presented by Ukrainian partners. Additionally, academic training programs have been implemented, with Ukrainian physicians traveling to New York City to participate in a 2-week neurosurgical training program, and other Ukrainian partners presenting virtually at multiple grand rounds. Brittany enjoys harnessing existing technological tools to create cost-conscious and sustainable solutions. She completed her Master of Healthcare Administration at the University of Utah in 2021 and an Administrative Fellowship at Northwell Health in 2022.

Olena Apchel is an artivist, theater director, performer, curator, playwright, and member of SEMA Ukraine and holds a PhD in Art History. In her curatorial practice, she explores horizontal management systems. In her artistic practice, she works with the themes of transgenerational heritage, personal and historical trauma. She was a professor at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, worked as the chief director of the Lesia Theater in Lviv, co-authored the concept of the main exhibition of the First Barrack of the Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes “Territory of Terror”, collaborated with the Kyiv Theater “Golden Gate”, Tarnów Theater im. Ludwika Solskiego, Gdańsk’s Teatr Wybrzeże, Sosnowiec’s Teatr Zagłębia, and Krakow’s Laźnia Nowa Theater, and headed the social projects department at the Nowy Teatr International Center for Culture, Warsaw. She is currently the co-director of the Theatertreffen festival in Berlin and a participant of the Revolution of Dignity, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Donetsk Maidans.

Since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014, she has been actively helping the army and displaced civilians, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, refugees abroad. From the fourth year of the war, she started promoting Ukrainian culture abroad, including directing the opening of the first foreign department of the Ukrainian Institute in Berlin and implementing an extensive program of Ukrainian culture presentation in the projects of the German federal institution Berliner Festspiele.

Artem Panchenko is the EMEA Regional Expansion Manager at Uber. He launched Uber ridesharing operations in Ukraine back in 2016. After working on regional growth in Central and Eastern Europe, Artem focused on expansion projects within the EMEA region. Since the start of the Russian invasion, he has, together with the Uber team in Ukraine, contributed to local communities leveraging Uber’s power of the platform. His social impact has been to provide transportation solutions for internally displaced persons and critical infrastructure workers together with moving emergency supplies using Uber tech.

Kamila is leading the Regional Center Eastern Europe of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy at Save the Children. She has worked with business and sector organizations as a certified coach, trainer and systems psychodynamic consultant. Together with the team, she supports local actors, organisations and the sector as a whole in capacity building and localized leadership on the ground. The HLA facilitates learning, partnerships, networking and thought leadership exchange reaching local and international humanitarian responders across the world. We help individuals, organisations and the sector to better prepare for and respond to crisis.

Mariusz Tywoniuk is Director of the Representative Office of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce in Rzeszow. He is a partner in the Tywoniuk & Skórska Law Firm and a proxy of the OCG Group. As a lawyer and specialist in business and corporate law, he has engaged in legal consulting since 1998 providing legal services to companies on the topics of mergers, acquisitions, transformations and restructuring processes. Mariusz handles investments with the participation of Eastern capital in Poland and the expansion of Polish companies to Ukraine. Among the awards he has received are, in 2015, the World Bank’s Diploma of recognition for his contribution to the development of entrepreneurship and, in 2017, the Polish-Ukrainian economic mace for outstanding actions for Polish-Ukrainian economic cooperation

Karolina A. Dehnhard devotes her practice to matrimonial law as well as international business transactions. Karolina assists with complex financial issues, including valuation of businesses both domestically and abroad; international custody rights; the impact of immigration status on divorcing spouses and their children; enforcement of foreign divorce decrees; and the complexities associated with alimony rights and post-judgment cohabitation. Karolina has appeared on numerous television and radio shows and has been a featured presenter at numerous women in business events on topics including women protecting their assets, becoming the CEO of your home, planning for the future, and promoting financial awareness before and during divorce. She has also taken part in U.S. delegations to Ireland, Cuba, and Spain, to develop international business relations among women in business. She was recognized by the Trade and Investment Section of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland for her influence and leadership in integrating women-owned businesses in both Poland and the United States. In 2018, Karolina launched the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce, North East (covering Maine to Florida) as well as Poland, with a focus on creating business opportunities for both American and Polish businesses. In her role, she speaks globally on international business relations between the United States and Poland.

A lifelong resident of Elizabeth, Senator Lesniak graduated Thomas Jefferson High School in 1964 and served in the US Army from 1967 to 1969. He graduated Rutgers University, class of 1971, and with honors from St. John’s Law School in 1974. He served in the State Assembly from 1978 to 1983 and in the State Senate from 1983 to January 2018.
During his legislative tenure, Senator Lesniak sponsored the most significant environmental protection laws in the nation, abolished New Jersey’s death penalty and repealed mandatory minimum sentences and expanded eligibility for treatment in place of incarceration for drug offenders, was an animal welfare champion and advocated for marriage equality.
Leaving the State Senate after forty years in the Legislature in January, 2018, Senator Lesniak is the Founder and President of the Lesniak Institute For American Leadership at Kean University.
In October Senator Raymond J Lesniak teamed up with Toys For Hospitalized Children, Karolina Dehnhard, Kelly Waters, and Carmen and Noel Musial to provide ipads, winter coats hats, and gloves, toys, and candy for 700 Ukrainian refugee children from Odessa, Ukraine who are now housed in Ossa, Poland for an indefinite amount of time.

Galyna Petrushka is the Executive of the SU “LvivenergoСommunication” PJSC Lvivoblenergo. Previously, she worked as a newspaper journalist on the topics of economy, local self-governmance, and regional politics, as a tv reporter for the tv company «Lviv-TV», as a live-stream host of «Vich-na-vich z Reporterom» , and as project creator, project manager, presenter, editor, screen-writer and journalist for the tv chanel ZIK. Galyna is also the author, presenter, and manger of the investigation project «PRAVOkaciya», as well as a journalist and head of investigative journalism for the «1+1» chanel tv projects.

From 2015–2019, she was the head of the corporate affairs department at Lvivoblenergo, where she was in charge of the information policy of the company from the creation of the information policy strategy to the implementation and control of all points of the information strategy, such as website content, social media content, news brake, contact with journalists, and crisis management. Galyna is also the head of the Museum of the History of Electrification of the region of Lviv.

Galyna holds a degree in journalism from the Lviv Ivan Franko National University and a degree in public administration from the Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration.

Oleg Bilianskyi is a physical therapist and head of the National Rehabilitation center “Unbroken.” Previously, he worked as head specialist in physical rehabilitation at the Lviv Emergency Hospital, before starting a career at university. He subsequently worked as lecturer, head teacher, and associated professor at the Department of Physical Rehabilitation of the Lviv State University of Physical Culture. In August 2016, he was appointed the Chief Physical Rehabilitation Specialist in the Lviv Health Department. From 2017-2020, he worked as Director of the Center for Medical Education which provides specialized trainings in the field of physical therapy, and later co-founded the public nonprofit organization «Ukrainian Association of Physical Therapists».

Since October 2018, Oleg has been active as head of the educational masters program in physical therapy and occupational therapy of the Ukrainian Catholic University and, since June 2020, he has worked as an associated professor at the Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy of the Ukrainian Catholic University. He has been the head of the National Rehabilitation center “Unbroken” since 2023.

Łukasz Bernatowicz, P.h.D., is the President of the Business Centre Club Employers Organization. He is also a legal adviser and Chairman of the Council for Social Dialogue.

Martyna Bogaczyk is the President of the Board of the Education for Democracy Foundation. She has worked for the Foundation since 2006, first as a project and program coordinator, then as a member of the Board, where she was responsible for the Eastern dimension of the EDF engagements. She has been leading FED since 2016.

Martyna has more than 19 years of experience in cooperating with Ukrainian partners and designing and conducting projects and programs in and for Ukraine on topics such as supporting civil society, decentralization on local level, social cohesion, supporting international school cooperation, multisectoral cooperation. She is also the author of several training programs and educational materials and fluent in Ukrainian.

Since March 2022, she has been leading the “We support Ukraine” program during which more than 120 Polish NGO received grants for activities aimed at supporting Ukrainian refugees in Poland and supporting the civil population in Ukraine. In 2014, Martyna was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Poland for her merits in promoting the idea of civil society and supporting democratic changes in the former USRR countries.

Jonas Brueckner is a general surgeon in Berlin, Germany.

Iryna Kopanytsia is a women rights advocate, public speaker, and social lobbyist. She is both the CEO and an Advisory Board Member of White Ribbon Ukraine, an international campaign against domestic violence that operates in over 90 countries around the world.

Iryna has been engaged in the GR and lobbying sector since 2013, having worked in Ukraine, Washington, Brussels, and London, where she coordinated cooperations with the European Parliament and USA Congress members on women rights.

Iryna is also a former CEO of the Miss Ukraine National beauty contest of Miss World in Ukraine.

She has participated in developing a number of laws on the criminalization of domestic violence and mentorship in orphans’ houses. Furthermore, she is involved in the documentation of alledged war crimes involving the kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russians, coordinates the application process of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and assists the application of allied countries to the ICC. Iryna has assisted in initiating cases within Europol and worked alongside European authorities in investigating human trafficking groups operating in Portugal, Poland, and Ukraine. She has also worked on genocide recognition providing historical background and evidence and has applied for “The Eyewitness to Atrocities” of the International Bar Association (IBA, London) on behalf of Ukraine which allows the secure recording of war crimes in a format acceptable in international courts. Finally she involved in a project aimed at collecting a database of evidence of Russians voicing pro-war propaganda.

Khrystyna Semegen-Bodak, doctor, PhD, holds the position of Program Manager and the Head of the Healthcare Unit at the International Charitable Foundation “Caritas Ukraine.” Her affiliation with Caritas Ukraine commenced in February 2023, marking the beginning of her mission to enhance healthcare services within the organization. She initiated the establishment of primary medical care centers within the Caritas network. This has greatly improved access to essential medical services, particularly for marginalized populations. In collaboration with her dedicated team, Khrystyna has been actively involved in expanding and refining the network of home care centers and palliative care centers, both of which have been operating under the auspices of Caritas Ukraine for over two decades, serving communities across Ukraine. She also works at the Department of Internal Medicine at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. She is also a devoted mother of two children and the wife of a mobilized military major of medical services. Furthermore, she is the owner of a family medical business in Kherson that tragically suffered damage from a missile strike. Continuing her tireless efforts, Khrystyna remains committed to expanding the healthcare capabilities of Caritas Ukraine. She tirelessly works towards providing comprehensive humanitarian, social, and psycho-medical assistance to the most vulnerable populations, particularly amidst the challenging backdrop of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Marta Półtorak is the President of the Management Board of Marma Polskie Folie Sp. z o.o., which operates within the Marma Capital Group, one of the leaders in plastics processing in Europe with over 30 years of tradition. She also manages Develop Investment Sp. z o.o., and is the owner of the Millenium Hall Cultural and Shopping Centre, the largest multifunctional complex in the capital city of Podkarpacie, combining the worlds of business, culture, commerce and entertainment. She also runs the company Hotele Grupy Marma, which, in 2012, opened the first Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Rzeszów in the Podkarpacie region and became the winner of the prestigious Best Hotel Award, among others. The company Piwnice Półtorak Wine & Spirits, a vineyard in Witryłów nad Sanem, which is one of the most beautifully located vineyards in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, was also created as a result of her passion.

For her social support, she has been awarded the title of Honorary Friend of Rzeszów Haematology, and has subsidised the construction of a Polish House for earthquake victims in Nepal and has supported a group of children from the Ukrainian areas affected by warfare during their stay in Poland. Marta is a long-standing patron of the Bliźniemu Swemu exhibition for the benefit of the St. Brother Albert’s Society. She was the first woman in history to be awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the City of Rzeszów, recognised for her outstanding achievements in the fields of economy, culture, art and sport, as well as her extensive social and charitable activities. She furthermore received an award from the Polish Business Roundtable in the success category known as the Business Oscars.

Dr. Lazo is a Cuban American immigrant who graduated medical school from the Universidad Central Del Este (UCE), in the Dominican Republic. This was his first international medical experience and fueled his passion for providing medical care to underserved communities in underdeveloped countries. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency Program Training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine NY/JCMC and graduated as Valedictorian in 2000.

Dr. Lazo was subsequently recruited to join the teaching faculty in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. He became Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC). During his tenure, the Internal Medicine Program had a 100% Board pass rate.

Dr. Lazo was later recruited by the Christ Hospital/Rowan University Family Practice Residency Program to serve as a teacher for internal medicine and to assist with improving the Board pass rate. During his tenure, the Board pass rate for the Family Practice Residency Program has been 100%.

As a Board-Certified Internal Medicine Physician, in addition to his roles in academia, Dr. Lazo has been in private practice in the United States, in the State of New Jersey, for 23 years. He has made a conscious decision to always practice medicine in underserved communities, staying true to his Cuban American heritage. His bilingual practice thereby expands his reach.

Phil Goss, who is the democratic candidate for Indiana’s 3rd Congressional district, has been an active force for those impacted by the war in Ukraine. He was actively involved in assisting in refugee reception and resettlement, and more recently, in matters surrounding the reception and treatment of wounded. Goss has also maintained an interest is the plight of Ukrainian orphans, whether residing in Poland or elsewhere in Europe. Having served as a consular official and adoptions officer with the US State Department in Warsaw, his perspectives are valuable additions to the dialogue surrounding their fate.

Michael Wildes is the managing partner with the leading immigration law firm of Wildes and Weinberg, P.C. He is an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York and teaches Business Immigration Law and Externship and part of the Field Clinic Faculty. He is a former federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn (1989-1993) and author of Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door (Foreword by Alan Dershowitz). Having represented the United States government in immigration proceedings, Michael Wildes is a frequent participant on professional panels and commentator on network television. He has also testified on Capitol Hill in connection with anti-terrorism legislation.

Mr. Wildes’ boutique law firm specializes exclusively in the practice of U.S. immigration and nationality law. It was established in 1960 by his father Leon Wildes whose best known accomplishment was his successful representation of John Lennon in his widely publicized deportation proceedings. More than fifty years since its inception, the firm continues to serve a distinguished domestic and international clientele and covers all areas of U.S. immigration law. Some of Michael Wildes recent clients include First Lady Melania Trump, famed artists Sarah Brightman, Lionel Richie, Boy George, many of the former Miss Universes’ as well as soccer icon Pele, master Chef Jean-Georges, and many other talented artists.

Michael Wildes is also the mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, where he resides.

DL Invest Group is one of the fastest growing polish investors on the commercial real estate market. Potrtfolio of the real estates contains three segments: logistics centres, office centres and shopping parks. DL Invest Group also provide services connected with leaseback with an option of repurchase of commercial investment. All of the investments remain as a property of DL Investment Group, which manages all of the project via its own internal structures and assets. The Group has possibility to provide whole investment proces, starting from analysis and examination of the location through financial part, projects, building, renting ending with effective management. Neonet, Euro RtV AGD, Orange, Hebe, Rossmann are clients of DL Invest Group. The company gains financial suport from Europejski Bank Odbudowy i Rozwoju and also acquires international partner – Macquire Capital Group. During last year the company rent more than 100 000 square metres of commercial surface. The value of properties that DL has exceeds 2,2 mld PLN, where rental indicator ranks 97%. Dominik Leszczyński graduated Uniwersytet Śląski in Katowice. The most important aspect for him is to selective searching for companies, which are looking for longterm partners to project and implement production infrastructure. Dominik’s business aims include the development of the group’s assets, new fields acquisition and building new investments, cooperation with Supply Chain Polska – logistic park building, and starting to work in the hotel sector.

Javier Pérez Salmeron is a human rights practitioner with extensive experience in child rights investigations. He has provided advice to a variety of international and domestic human rights and criminal accountability mechanisms on investigations and prosecution of crimes against and affecting children in a variety of conflict-affected contexts in Africa, Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Recently, Javier joined Global Rights Compliance Ukraine as Senior Investigator on the Crimes Against Children team.

Currently serving as the Head of Corporate Fundraising at Children of Heroes, the largest charity fund in Ukraine dedicated to supporting children who have lost parents due to war, Kateryna has demonstrated her unwavering commitment to humanitarian causes. Her journey began as a CSR and charity initiative manager in an international company. However, her path took a profound turn in response to the full-scale war in Ukraine.

Together with her team, Kateryna oversees charitable initiatives, collaborating with governmental institutions, businesses, and foundations towards the shared goal of providing emergency, humanitarian, educational, and psychological support to the children under the Fund’s care.

Natalya Karpenchuk-Konopatska is the President of the Women’s Business Chamber of Ukraine and the Vice President for International Cooperation of the Lviv Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Women’s Business Chamber of Ukraine is the largest organization in Ukraine for the development of women’s entrepreneurship. The organization has 28 sectoral committees and 2500 members, organizes more than 100 major events per annum, and actively cooperates with international funds and projects. Personally, Natalya has been engaged in international projects and the cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign businessmen.

Roman Nikitov is the director of ICU, an independent multi-strategy investment group that specialises in emerging and frontier markets.
Roman leads ICU Ventures, the group’s venture capital arm, one of Ukraine’s biggest venture funds.
Since 2018 it has made over 30 investments, with ticket sizes ranging from $200K to $5 million, depending on the investment stage.

Roberta Brzezinski is a global growth equity investor. She leads Capitalworks Investment Management’s investment strategy across the middle-income countries of Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, serving as the CEO and a director of Capitalworks Emerging Markets Acquisition Corporation, and also as Managing Partner of Capitalworks Emerging Markets Advisor, LP.
Prior to Capitalworks, Roberta was a managing director with Canadian pension fund CDPQ, originating private-markets transactions in Latin America and India. Prior to CDPQ, she was CIO of TAU Investment Management, focusing on impact investing in South and Southeast Asia. Before that, Roberta was one of the original partners of Abris Capital, a growth buyout firm investing in Central Europe, and served as Ukraine partner for Abris.
In the 2000s, Roberta was an investor with the AIG Infrastructure Funds, where she managed investments in North and Southeast Asia. She began her career at IFC, where she served as Ukraine country manager and led a series of private-sector development programs including small-scale privatization, winning an award from the World Bank president. She also led a CIS-focused private equity practice for fund manager NCH Capital.
Roberta holds an MBA with honors from Georgetown University and an AB magna cum laude from Harvard College. She speaks fluent French and Russian and understands Ukrainian. She is based in New York and is a US citizen.

Sally Jastrzebska is a journalist with 10 years of experience both in Poland and abroad. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, she has been reporting from Ukraine. Currently, she is working on a documentary about Ukrainian kids sent to Russia for a summer camp and their mothers’ heroic struggle to get them back. Sally has an educational background in international relations (MA Georgetown) and anthropology (BA Oxford).

Nika Kreidenkova serves as the coordinator for the third composition of the Public Integrity Council, an independent public body consisting of 20 members appointed by the leading NGOs to support the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine in the qualification assessment of judges nationwide and in the selection process for appellate and Supreme Court judges.
Nika is also an advocacy manager of the DEJURE Foundation, a civic organization created by experts and lawyers to promote the rule of law and reforms in the sphere of justice in Ukraine. Specifically, Nika contributed to advocacy campaigns to amend the legislation on the selection of judges to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and the disciplinary body of the judiciary. For four years, Nika has worked on analyzing judges and candidates for the Supreme Court, the High Anti-Corruption Court, and judicial governance bodies to ensure they meet the integrity criteria.

Natalie Polischuk is an independent director of Dobrobut, the leading private integrated healthcare provider in Ukraine. Dobrobut operates two multi-disciplinary hospitals and 15 outpatient clinics in the greater Kyiv area. From the onset of the war, Dobrobut has been providing acute and follow-up care for wounded and displaced civilians and some military personnel.
Natalie also serves on the board of Ferrexpo Plc, the mining company listed on London Stock Exchange, where she chairs the ESG Committee and Humanitarian Fund which has provided humanitarian assistance to communities across the country.
Natalie is a professional private equity investor with over 25 years of experience across Central Eastern Europe, including senior positions with Advent International, Delta Private Equity Partners and Western NIS Enterprise Fund (now Horizon Capital). During her private equity career and in recent years, Ms. Polischuk had significant experience of executing and evaluating private investment opportunities in various sectors, from healthcare and pharmaceuticals to telecom, retail and software outsourcing.
Ms. Polischuk holds MBA from Harvard Business School and BA from the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Tom Southern is the Director for Special Projects at the Centre for Information Resilience, where he focuses on hostile state influence, counter-extremism and emergent digital cultures. He has recently led campaigns addressing ‘Ukraine Fatigue’, as well as projects countering attempts by the Kremlin to influence global populations through military, finance and culture.

Joanna Fornalczyk holds a Ph.D. in economics in the field of management sciences and is a certified internal auditor. Since 1999, she has cooperated in many advisory projects and proceedings in the field of competition protection, as well as in many projects in the field of public aid, implemented for both donors and beneficiaries of public aid in the construction, chemical, transport, entertainment and science parks sectors. She speaks Polish and is an expert on European competition protection law and state aid with knowledge who has much knowledge about the decision-making practice of the European Commission and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Joanna Fornalczyk has experience in conducting trainings on topics related to state aid. She is a graduate of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management at the University of Łódź and MA studies at the Faculty of Management at the University of Łódź, having specialised in Strategic Management. She is a two-time scholarship holder of the Ministry of National Education.

Born in Ukraine and a graduate of the medical faculty of the M. I. Pyrohov State Medical University in Vinnitsa (Ukraine), Mykola Sivak worked as a surgeon at the hospital in Mykolaiv, Ukraine from 1996 to 2016. In 2016, he moved to Germany, obtained credentials and passed her state exams. He is now a surgeon at the Naemi-Wilke-Stift Hospital in Guben and committed to helping patients of Eastern European descent through her knowledge of Ukrainian, Polish and German.

Pavlo Pushkar is a Head of Division at the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of the Directorate General of Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe. The Department’s mandate covers advice to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on its tasks of supervision over measures to be taken under the judgments of the European Court as well as advice to member states on measures that they intend to take or have taken to comply with the Strasbourg Court’s judgments. His work also covers response to and accountability for gross and serious human rights violations.

Dr. Pushkar worked at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights from 2002 to 2016 as a senior lawyer and a non-judicial rapporteur. Before joining the Council of Europe, he worked as an advocate in the areas of international litigation and arbitration and as a public servant at the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Dr. Pushkar holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice. He is a graduate of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University Law Faculty (BA and MA in Laws, with honours); the Nottingham University School of Law (LLM in International Law); Queens Mary College University of London (International Arbitration).

Fryderyk Zoll is Professor of Law at the the Jagiellonian University in Poland and the University of Osanbruck in Germany and Doctor honoris causa at West Ukrainian National University. He is also one of the founders of the School of Polish and European Law in Ternopil and in Lviv and giving lectures at Ukrainian universities.

Karol Kubica is the head of PAIH’s Foreign Trade Office in Kiev and a graduate of Ukrainian Philology at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Professionally, he is associated with the Association of the Forum of Young Diplomats, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv, the Lublin Business Club Association, and the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Moldova in Lublin. He cooperates with the Eastern Markets Service Centre and the “Together with Ukraine” Program.

Karol is a Manager with over 16 years of professional experience, focused on economic and social cooperation between Poland and Eastern European countries. He has been involved in organizing several international forums, conferences, fairs and foreign missions and in creating a network of cooperation for Polish enterprises with countries from Eastern Europe. He is also a participant of programs aimed at building economic, social and cultural relations between Poland and the regions of Eastern Europe, in particular with Ukraine. Since 2018, he has been associated with PAIH.

Małgorzata Skawińska is a member of the Worldwide Independent Lawyers League and University Relationship Manager in WILL. She is also a member of the Foreign Comittee of the Polish National Bar Association, the European Association of Private International Law, theEuropean Law Institute, and the Rete Nazionale Forense in Italy. Sh represents Poland at the Italian Federation of Entrepreneurs „FEDERITALY” and is a member of the Board of Economic Council of the City of Rzeszów. Furthermore, she is a volunteer and a member of the Supervisory Board in the “Under the Wings of an Angel” Association.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Rzeszow University of Law and Administration, distinguished with the title of “Best Student of the Faculty of Law” and “Best Student of the University”. A ministerial scholarship holder, she is now Polish-Italian sworn translator. She graduated with honors in “Lingua e cultura italiana per stranieri” (University of Pisa). She completed postgraduate studies in management at the Warsaw Management School, obtaining the title of Executive Master of Business Administration (Emba) and Doctor of Business Administration. In 2018, she defended her doctoral thesis on the crime of breach of trust in the Polish and Italian legal systems, obtaining a PhD in law conferred unanimously.

She is an ADR advocate, negotiator, and mediator.

Since 2017, she has run LEXALIS International Law Firm, with particular emphasis on cross-border cases, combining legal knowledge with a passion for management sciences and language skills.

Mirosław Kasprzak is an expert in ESG and corporate governance. He has been professionally involved in responsible business and sustainable development since 2012. He is a business advisor who has extensive experience in the field of management and supervision, m.in. in commercial law companies, including local governments. He held managerial and managerial positions in public administration and business: ministry of labour, PTE PZU, Radio Kraków, PGE, Exatel, PWR Rzeczpospolita, Armatura Kraków among others.

Marek Pawlus has been the general director of Snieżka Ukraina since 2011.

Iryna Kiryeyeva is a Legal Advisor of the Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine. Till August 1, 2023, she lead the unit of the Ministry of Justice responsible for the development and implementation of international legal mechanisms for compensation for damage caused as a result of the international armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine. She is a member of the working group on combating sexual violence related to Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine and providing assistance to victims (reparations subgroup) and the Working group to search, seize, confiscate and withdraw to Ukraine`s income the assets belonging to persons involved in the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine (Task Force UA).