Team

Earlier worked as the Director of ICPS’s Foreign Policy Department (since August 2013). Between 2003 – 2013, she worked at the Political and Security Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and at the Department for Association and European Integration of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Between 2007 – 2011, she was the First Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada (Ottawa).

Ph.D., the communications expert, has 15 years of experience in strategic communications, practical working in the media, governmental, and NGO sectors; the author of a series of training. Areas of interest: public communications, media communications, crisis communications, communication in peace building and conflict resolution, propaganda and misinformation, information management, and creativity in communications.

Active participant of the charitable projects in the east of Ukraine. Volodymyr has experience in managing organizations, planning and conducting events, managing large projects, and coordinating teamwork.

Volodymyr has overseas work experience but believes that all acquired skills need to be implemented in his country. Frontman of the Ukrainian music band “Double life”.

For 15 years Yuliia has been working at the National Institute for Strategic Studies as a senior consultant. She also provides expertise for the civil society sector: i. e. for Donbas Think Tank on survey, elaboration, and implementation of the policy on information reintegration of the temporarily uncontrolled territories; civil organization “Influence Group” on the protection of the rights of the internally displaced persons in Ukraine. In January – February 2018 Yuliia did the study course at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany).

Ph.D., M.A. in Media-communication, Anti-corruption Expert. Has been engaged in public activities since 2014. She has implemented four projects on anti-corruption investigations, in particular, the project “Pechenihy – a Stolen Coast“, and the project “Land Schemes: How Communities Lose Their Plots“. Areas of Interests: Fighting Corruption (Land Issues), Internal Politics, Open Data, Propaganda and Information Warfare, Small Business.

Bright performer of the music compositions on bandura, initiator of the modern bandura project “Bandura Style”, art director and producer of the music band “Shpyliasti Kobzari”.

Ukrainian singer and songwriter, finalist of the television projects “Voice of the Country” and “X-factor”. She is known to the Ukrainian public as a soloist of the “Lords of the Sound” orchestra, the “Franky Jazz” band, the National Brass Orchestra of Ukraine, and the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Photographer, designer, and art director of the “Bandura Style” project. Co-founder of the Creative Women Space. The organizer of the Promova Club, a club of free critics. Member of the National Writers’ Union of Ukraine, author of two poetic collections.