The Foundation for Support of Reforms in Ukraine engages associate experts and partners with experience across a range of sectors and professional fields. This gives access to the specialist expertise it needs and supports the effective delivery of projects and initiatives.
Artem Sorokin is an entrepreneur in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence with more than 15 years of experience in cyber threat detection, vulnerability testing, AI-based solution development and security engineering.
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Viktor Yakymovych is an entrepreneur and cybersecurity expert. He specialises in cybersecurity management, risk assessment and compliance with international standards, and in strengthening the cyber resilience of public and private organisations.
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Oleksii Baranovskyi is an expert with more than 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, PhD in Engineering, and associate professor at the Department of Information Security of the Institute of Physics and Technology, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He combines practice and research, specialising in cyber risk management, cyber threat analysis, cyber incident investigation and cyber resilience.
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Olha Fabrycheva is an expert in public policy and social protection for veterans, service members and their families. She has worked at the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, contributing to the design and implementation of state policy. She also works on educational initiatives for service members, including a financial literacy course in Army+.
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Liudmyla Nefodova has more than 15 years of professional experience in project and programme management, over 10 years managing development projects and consulting in the defence sector, for which she has received awards from the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, more than 20 years of business training and teaching, and over 5 years of research, including authoring academic publications and project management standards.
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Oleh Blinov has many years of professional experience in public and defence procurement and in the control and monitoring of procurement procedures. He specialises in organising procurement in military units, the regulatory framework for defence procurement, making procurement processes more efficient and building the capabilities of defence contracting authorities. Since the start of the full-scale invasion he has served in the military and worked as the authorised procurement officer of a military unit. In 2024 he conceived and launched Project 100, a free consulting course for the military, which he leads.
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Artur Pereverziev has many years of professional experience in defence procurement reform, regulation and building the procurement capacity of the security and defence sector. He has worked as an expert at the Reform Project Office of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, as an adviser to the Ministry of Defence and as an adviser to the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council. He is one of the key experts behind drafting and advancing legislative changes in defence procurement. He currently heads the Defence Procurement Reform Project, working on the legislative, institutional and educational transformation of Ukraine’s defence procurement system in line with NATO standards and practices.
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Svitlana Garashchenko is a GESI expert, consultant and trainer. She has many years of experience in national and international projects, including gender-responsive budgeting, gender mainstreaming in public policies and programmes, and countering human trafficking.
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Andrii Teliupa has extensive experience in the public sector and large companies. He served as Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine and represented Ukraine in the official screening of legislation for compliance with EU law. He works on developing Ukrainian production and exports, supporting business and integrating Ukraine into the EU Single Market.
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Anna Milenina has more than 10 years of professional experience in trade, public procurement, and export support and promotion. She specialises in Ukraine’s trade policy, export consulting and developing the export potential of businesses, including designing regional export programmes. She is the author of practical guides for exporters.
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Olha Hvozdova is a trade policy and market analytics expert with more than 10 years of experience supporting Ukrainian enterprises and building cooperation between government and business. She has deep expertise in designing and implementing export strategies, international market research, developing export services, training and mentoring regional business support organisations, and coordinating multi-stakeholder projects with ministries, international organisations and regional authorities.
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Kyrylo Dombrovskyi is a public administration and GR professional with many years of experience in national security, institutional reform, humanitarian response and international cooperation.
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Iryna Datsiuk is an expert in strategic communications and government relations with more than 20 years of experience managing and delivering high-level projects in Ukraine and internationally. She served as adviser to the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and adviser to the Trade Representative of Ukraine, and was acting head of the press service of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. As part of the Export Promotion Office management team, she led its communications and B2B streams. She contributed to the development of the national brand Ukraine NOW.
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Nataliia Malynovska holds a PhD in Political Science and is Academic Director of the Master’s programme in Public Policy and Governance at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). As a national consultant to the Council of Europe in the project “Strengthening Multilevel Governance and Local Democracy to Support the Recovery of Ukraine”, she works on civic participation, local democracy, deliberative processes, project management and community capacity development. She has more than 10 years of experience in local development and capacity building, including hands-on experience designing and running participatory processes and public consultations, facilitating strategic processes, and developing training programmes and methodologies for local governments and civil society organisations.
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