Experts

Petro Burkovskiy

Executive Director

His areas of expertise are history, comparative analysis, constitutional law, decision making process, security policy, energy policy, international relations.

Main areas of expertise: hybrid threats and strategies, countering disinformation, information/psychological operations, US, NATO, EU security policy, European and Euro-Atlantic security, military policy, strategy, geopolitics and international security.

Prof. Olexiy Haran

Research Advisor, Professor of Politics

Research Advisor of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Professor of Comparative Politics at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy

Mariia Zolkina

Head of Regional Security and Conflict Studies at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Polina Bondarenko

Analyst

BA in Political Science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is currently getting an MA in sociology.

Spheres of interest: institutional capacity of parties, electoral process, gender analysis.

Maksym Paraschevin

sociologist

Dmytro Babachanakh

Associate Analyst

Andriy Sukharyna

Associate Analyst

Dr. Omar Ashour

Non-Resident Fellow. Professor of Security and Military Studies and the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies