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SPEAKERS
ORGANIZING TEAM
Vasyl Myroshnychenko – moderator, co-organizer
Vasyl Myroshnychenko – moderator, co-organizer
Vasyl is a partner with CFC Big Ideas, a Kyiv-based strategic communications company. He advises clients on corporate communications, investor relations and public affairs.
Vasyl is a co-founder of Ukraine Crisis Media Center, a media NGO set up in 2014 aimed at amplifying Ukraine’s voice internationally. Vasyl was a co-founder of the Professional Government Association, which united Western University alumni to assist the Ukrainian government with economic reforms. He was a chairman of the PGA’s board in 2015-2016.
Vasyl holds an MSc in international political economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He graduated from the Swedish Institute Management Program, an executive program focused on sustainability. He is also a graduate of Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry program at Iacocca Institute, Lehigh University and Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program. He was a Marshall Memorial Fellow in 2018, a prestigious leadership program administered by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Artem Shaipov – moderator, co-organizer
Artem Shaipov – moderator, co-organizer
Artem is an international development professional with more than 12 years of experience in leading rule of law reform projects, including 8 years of designing and implementing international technical assistance projects and delivering development impact. After the Revolution of Dignity, Artem co-founded the Professional Government Association (PGA) and in 2017 – 2019 served as Head of the PGA Board, leading a community of over 3,000 western-educated Ukrainians committed to making Ukraine’s civil service world-class and working with senior government officials, mayors, and international development partners to improve the quality of governance in Ukraine and internationally.
He earned his LL.M degree from the University of Cambridge, PMP certification from the Project Management Institute, and completed the Implementing Public Policy Program, Executive Education, from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Besides, Artem completed a suite of fellowship and leadership programs and is a member of global networks of leaders affiliated with the Aspen Institute, the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the John Smith Trust.
Dr. Sebastian Schwark – moderator, co-organizer
Dr. Sebastian Schwark – moderator, co-organizer
As Partner and Senior Vice President at FleishmanHillard, Sebastian leads the Corporate Reputation practice in Germany. An expert in reputation management, he helps companies and executives understand and effectively address stakeholder demands and societal issues in order to safeguard the license to operate.
In addition to his position at FleishmanHillard, Sebastian is a Visiting Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States. He leads the business and society group, a transatlantic platform for U.S and European corporate leaders to help businesses address social, political and environmental challenges, while achieving their commercial objectives.
Sebastian holds a Ph.D. in political science. He lives with his wife and two sons in Berlin.
PANELISTS
Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas
Edward is a writer and consultant specializing in European and transatlantic security. His expertise also includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, information warfare and Russian foreign and security policy. Formerly a senior editor at The Economist, the world’s foremost newsweekly, he is now a senior vice-president at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He writes a weekly column in the London Times.
Participates in:
Panel I – What is the impact of oligarchs on democratic transition? The oligarchic power strategies and tactics and the role of Western infrastructure and the complicity of Western actors for oligarchic power
John Lough
John Lough
John is an associate fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House.
He began his career as an analyst at the Soviet Studies (later Conflict Studies) Research Centre focusing on Soviet/Russian security policy. He spent six years with NATO, and was the first Alliance representative to be based in Moscow (1995–98). He gained direct experience of the Russian oil and gas industry at TNK-BP as a manager in the company’s international affairs team (2003–08). From 2008 to 2016, he ran the Russia & CIS practice at BGR Gabara, a public affairs and strategy consulting company. Alongside his work with Chatham House, John is a consultant with Highgate, a strategic advisory firm.
Participates in:
Panel I – What is the impact of oligarchs on democratic transition? The oligarchic power strategies and tactics and the role of Western infrastructure and the complicity of Western actors for oligarchic power
Dr. Taras Kuzio
Dr. Taras Kuzio
Dr. Kuzio has analysed crime, corruption, politics, and nationalism in the USSR, Ukraine, Russia and Eurasia for over three decades as a journalist, consultant and academic. Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Taras has been a consultant to different branches of the US government, including team leader on a USAID spring 2015 assessment of democracy, governance and human rights in Ukraine. In the past, he was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
Participates in:
Panel I – What is the impact of oligarchs on democratic transition? The oligarchic power strategies and tactics and the role of Western infrastructure and the complicity of Western actors for oligarchic power
Michel Casey
Michel Casey
Michel is a writer, analyst, and investigative journalist working on topics ranging from kleptocracy, illicit finance, and foreign interference to developments in the post-Soviet space and dark money financing networks. His first book—AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History—centers on America’s transformation into the world’s greatest offshore haven, and what that means for the rest of us.
He received his Master's degree in Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe Studies from Columbia University's Harriman Institute. He is an Adjunct Fellow with the Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative, where he helps co-host the “MAKING A KILLING” podcast on corruption and kleptocracy, as well as a member of RUSI’s Taskforce on a Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance.
Participates in:
Special guest interview – 14:15 CET
Daria Kaleniuk
Daria Kaleniuk
Daria is co-founder and executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, a powerful national organization that has shaped Ukraine's anti-corruption legislation and efforts. Daria's organization ensured that Ukraine’s newly elected parliament designed strong anti-corruption legislation, including the laws on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the special anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, High Anticorruption Court, open property registers and electronic asset declarations. Daria has also founded critical resources to track money laundering and corruption internationally. Recently, Daria co-organized an international Zero Corruption conference, which took place in Kyiv in June of 2021.
Daria holds a master’s degree in financial services law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she studied as a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship 2010-2011. She also has a law degree from National Jaroslav the Wise Law Academy in Kharkiv.
Participates in:
Panel II – What are the best practices for civil society and political leaders in their struggle for more democratic political representation and government in dealing with oligarchs and oligarchic power structures?
Anna Babinets
Anna Babinets
Anna is the Editor-in-Chief of SLIDSTVO.INFO investigative agency based in Kyiv, Ukraine, and a Regional Editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
As a journalist, Anna specializes in discovering high-scale corruption and money laundering schemes and crimes. She is part of the Panama Papers team and the author of several articles about the Ukrainian president’s Petro Poroshenko offshore companies. Anna is one of the authors of “Killing Pavel” documenary investigating the murder of a famous journalist Pavlo Sheremeta, that took place in Kyiv. The documentary received a DIG Award (Italy) and IRE Medal (USA) in 2018.
Participates in:
Panel II – What are the best practices for civil society and political leaders in their struggle for more democratic political representation and government in dealing with oligarchs and oligarchic power structures?
Dr. Oleksandra Keudel
Dr. Oleksandra Keudel
Dr. Keudel is a researcher at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and a consultant for international organisations on open government and anti-corruption policies (IIEP-UNESCO, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Ukraine, Armenia and Kosovo*). She currently researches governance of local anti-corruption and citizen participation reforms in Ukraine. She has also published on policy influence of think tanks and state-civil society relations at times of war, focusing on Ukraine. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin.
Participates in:
Panel II – What are the best practices for civil society and political leaders in their struggle for more democratic political representation and government in dealing with oligarchs and oligarchic power structures?
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, MEP
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, MEP
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 and belongs to the Group of The Greens/European Free Alliance. Since her election, she has been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and as a substitute in the Committees on Industry, Research and Energy, on Budget Control and on Culture and Education. Since July 2020 she is also a member of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation.
In addition to her committee assignments, Viola von Cramon is the First Vice-Chair of the EP’s delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, a member of the EU-Serbia delegation and to the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly as well as a substitute member to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
Prior to her EP mandate, she represented Lower Saxony in the German federal parliament (Bundestag) from 2009 to 2013 where she was the spokesperson for EU foreign relations and for sports policy. Already during her studies of agricultural economics, she worked on international projects in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Estonia, Poland and China.
Participates in:
Panel III – The loopholes in the West that allow the oligarchic power structures to flourish, particularly in the financial system, but also in real estate, tourism, consulting and other economic areas. How can it be addressed effectively on a policy level?
Dr. Iryna Solonenko
Dr. Iryna Solonenko
Dr. Solonenko has been a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Modernity, a think-tank based in Berlin since December 2020. Between 2012 and now she has been active in several functions as a researcher at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder; Associate Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); an independent expert and consultant with the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Eastern Partnership Index, V-Dem Institute, German political foundations and other institutions in Germany and Europe.
Between 2000 and 2012 Iryna Solonenko worked with the International Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine as the Director of the European Programme and with the EastWest Institute in Kyiv as a project manager. Iryna Solonenko holds degrees in international relations, European studies, public administration and history from the Birmingham University, Central European University in Budapest, the National Academy of Public Administration in Kyiv, and the National University 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy' in Kyiv. Areas of expertise: domestic developments in Ukraine, EU-Ukraine relationship and the EU’s Eastern Partnership policy, the nexus between oligarchic interests and political power in hybrid regimes.
Participates in:
Panel III – The loopholes in the West that allow the oligarchic power structures to flourish, particularly in the financial system, but also in real estate, tourism, consulting and other economic areas. How can it be addressed effectively on a policy level?
Dr. Julia Langbein
Dr. Julia Langbein
Dr. Langbein leads the research cluster Political Economy and Integration at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin. She holds a degree in political science from the Free University of Berlin and a master’s in Russian studies from the European University Institute in St. Petersburg, and received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence.
In her current research, she deals with the integration of (semi-) peripheral economies in transnational markets and value chains and consequences for their economic and political development. Her regional focus lies on Eastern Europe and European economic integration, also taking into account the role of China’s economic engagement.
Participates in:
Panel III – The loopholes in the West that allow the oligarchic power structures to flourish, particularly in the financial system, but also in real estate, tourism, consulting and other economic areas. How can it be addressed effectively on a policy level?
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