Roman Puchko is a co-founder and CEO of ReThink, a Kyiv-based NGO dedicated to the circular economy and green innovation. Puchko holds a master's degree in management, economics, and consumer studies from Wageningen University and has completed the Circular Cities course at the University of Amsterdam.
 
Since co-founding ReThink in 2017, Puchko has promoted the implementation of green innovations in Ukraine and worked to unleash the country's potential to ensure a circular transition for the European continent. Currently, he brings together colleagues, like-minded experts, and various stakeholders around his vision of an ecologically sustainable and aesthetically beautiful reconstruction of the Ukrainian urban environment.
 
Puchko was elected as a RISE Ukraine Coalition Board member in March 2025 and is focusing on the green reconstruction dimension in that capacity. He is also a co-founder of the Ukrainian Green Building Council and a board member of the Build Ukraine Better platform.

Jennifer Nguyen is a senior program coordinator for GMF Indo-Pacific. She previously worked at the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum, where she led projects on US-China and Southeast Asian climate and energy cooperation, and conducted research on Chinese overseas investment, critical minerals, and low-carbon transitions. 

Nguyen holds a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in international affairs, with a concentration in American foreign policy and national security, from American University's School of International Service. Her studies included a focus on the Indo-Pacific and a minor in Mandarin. She also speaks Vietnamese. 

September 17, 2024

An Unnatural Disaster

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Lidiia Akryshora, Yulia Darnytska, Tetiana Prysakar