Cities and Regions
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.
Nathan Hutson is a visiting fellow in GMF’s Cities program. He is a visiting professor of urban studies and postwar reconstruction at the Kyiv School of Economics, and also serves as an adjunct at the University of Texas at Austin at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and School of Architecture. A long-term member of the Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine, Dr. Hutson has taught several applied research courses on the reconstruction of Ukraine at the University of Texas. His recent book, The Silk Road After Ukraine: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration, explores how the war will impact the long-term trajectory of Eurasian overland trade patterns. Dr. Hutson received a PhD in urban planning and development from the University of Southern California in 2019.