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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.
Valerii Kravets is a Bucharest-based program coordinator for GMF Black Sea Trust. He focuses on Ukraine-related programming and supports initiatives aimed at strengthening electoral integrity across the Eastern Partnership countries. He also works to strengthen local governance, advance European integration processes, and foster international cooperation. He has contributed to projects funded by USAID, the EU (ProElect, Enhancing the Resilience of Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership - ERICS), and the Porticus Foundation.
Prior to joining GMF, Kravets gained over a decade of senior-level experience in the private sector, most recently as deputy director for development at ATB Corporation, one of Ukraine’s largest companies. In this role, he was responsible for national development strategy; public-private partnership projects; cooperation with ministries, state-owned enterprises, and local governments; supporting M&A transactions; and driving digital transformation initiatives.
Kravets holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and enterprise management from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, a bachelor’s degree in law from Dnipro Humanitarian University, and a master’s degree in administrative management from Dnipro Polytechnic. He also studied at the University of Economics and Management in Prague.
He is a native speaker of Ukrainian and Russian and is fluent in English and Romanian.