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Henrik Winther is the Director of the Department of European Neighborhood at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Henrik's distinguished career in diplomacy and international relations began in April 2006 when he was appointed as Head of Section in the Africa Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In September 2007, he transitioned to the European Policy Department, continuing in the role of Head of Section. By June 2008, Henrik advanced to the position of Advisor in the Policy Unit of EU High Representative Javier Solana at the Council of the European Union.

His expertise and leadership skills led to his appointment as Deputy Head of Mission at the Danish Embassy in Tehran in September 2009. After serving there, he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2012 as a Senior Advisor in the Executive Secretariat. His trajectory continued upward when, in August 2014, he took on the role of Senior Advisor at the Prime Minister's Office.

In August 2016, Henrik was appointed Deputy Head of Mission at the Danish Embassy in Moscow, further solidifying his experience in international diplomacy. He then served as Deputy Director of the Department of European Neighborhood at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs starting in August 2020. His contributions and leadership in this role were recognized, and in September 2022, he was promoted to Director of the Department of European Neighborhood.

Since September 2017 Mark Speich is State Secretary for Federal, European and International Affairs of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia as well as the state’s plenipotentiary to the Federal Government. 

State Secretary Mark Speich is Chair of the German Delegation to the European Committee of the Regions (CoR). He is also Chair of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX), member of the Bureau of the CoR and member of the CoR-EPP-Bureau. In his position as CIVEX-Chair, State Secretary Mark Speich is member of the Fit for Future-Platform of the European Commission and he is a delegate to the Plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe. 

Moreover, Speich was appointed Co-Chair of the CDU‘s Commission on International Affairs. 

Prior to this role he was CEO of Vodafone Foundation and the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, Vodafone’s corporate think tank, respectively from 2008 to 2017. Before joining Vodafone Speich served as Director of Policy Planning to the Majority Leader in the German Bundestag and as director of Programmes for the Herbert-Quandt Foundation. In the years 1997 and 1998 he was Personal Advisor to the President of Bonn University. He started his career in the political advisory staff of the CDU’s secretary general in 1995. Speich was educated at Collegium Josephinum Bonn, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (MPhil) and the University of Bonn (Ph.D.) where he read Modern History, Political Science and Constitutional Law.

Garry Poluschkin is Consultant and Country Coordinator Ukraine in the German Economic Team, a high-level government advisory project financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

After studying Business and Economics at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany) and at the Durham University (UK) during his Bachelor programme, he completed his M.Sc. in Economics with specialization in Empirical Economics at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany).

During his studies, he gained experience at the ifo Institute, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute of Economic Structures Research.

By the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 162-r dated February 27, 2024, Viktor Pavlushchyk was appointed Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention.

From November 2015 to February 27, 2024, he worked at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine

From 2015 he worked as a detective, senior detective, and deputy head of the detective department of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. In November 2017 he was appointed as the head of the detective department of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.

From July 2008 to October 2015, he served in the Security Service of Ukraine in operational and managerial positions.

Margie O'Driscoll is currently the Strategist and Director of the Center for Innovation (CFI), a nonprofit that is reshaping the design and construction industry to create a better tomorrow for all. Margie has led transformational change in local government and the nonprofit arts and architecture community.  

She leads efforts at CFI to provide innovative and proven ideas to assist Ukrainian reconstruction efforts, even as the war continues. CFI co-led the RE:Ukraine conference in Kyiv in July 2023 with Ukrainian NGO Dobrobat.  In January 2024, CFI hosted a group of 10 Ukrainians (including government leaders, and experts in building, architecture, and cultural preservation) to visit California to begin planning for sustainable and people-centric reconstruction efforts.

Her past work included serving as Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco and as the Arts Liaison to the Mayor. For over 12 years, Margie was the Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, where she launched signature initiatives that transformed the built environment. 

Margie has taught at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.  She was the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Zen Center for over a decade and lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco.

Andriy Moskalenko is the First Deputy Mayor of Lviv and Deputy Mayor for Economic Development of the city of Lviv. He is responsible for Finance, Economic Development (particularly Innovation Economy), Youth Policy, IT, Digitalization, Investment Policy, Tourism, Startup Ecosystem, etc. He is a main coordinator of humanitarian hub and rehabilitation center Unbroken. 

Nathanael Liminski has been Minister for Federal, European, International Affairs and Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia since June 29, 2022, and Head of the State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia since June 2017. From 2014 to 2017, Liminski was parliamentary director of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Previously, he worked as a speech writer and policy officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Defense. From 2010 to 2011, he worked in the Hessian State Chancellery as a speech writer for the Prime Minister of Hesse. Nathanael Liminski studied Medieval and Modern History, Political Science and Public Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. 

In 2003, Taras Byk was a trainee at the Representative Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in Lviv, afterwards, he worked as a journalist and head of the World news department at the Lvivska Gazeta newspaper. In 2006, he moved to Kyiv where he worked for 3.5 years at the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, and then went for a six-month internship at the European Commission in Brussels. Afterward, for 8.5 years, he worked with the International Republican Institute on the development of democratic practices all over Ukraine.

In 2019, Taras joined Wooden Horse Strategies as a political and business consultant. During 2021, Taras was Head of the Advisory Board to the Mayor of Rivne, Ukraine. When Russia launched Big War on Ukraine, Taras stayed in Kyiv helping Armed Forces as a volunteer and has worked on humanitarian assistance projects. Then, he joined the Community Volunteer Formation of the Territorial Defense of Kyiv. Responding to new challenges before Ukraine, Taras became Director of the NGO “COD Help Ukraine – Operation Palianytsia” organizing support for military and humanitarian projects in Ukraine. Finally, since 2022 Taras has been a Member of the Board of the NGO “Agency for Recovery and Development” providing help to municipalities in different parts of Ukraine, especially, close to the frontline, on their recovery and development. 

Penny Pritzker was appointed by President Biden to serve as the Special Representative for Ukraine Recovery and Reconstruction.. From June 2013 through January 2017, she served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration. 

Ms. Pritzker is an entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist, with more than 30 years of experience in numerous industries. She is the founder and Chairman of PSP Partners, a diversified investment firm based in Chicago

In July of 2022, Ms. Pritzker was elected as the Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation and is the first woman to hold the position. Ms. Pritzker has been a member of the Harvard Corporation, the main governing board for the University, since 2018.. Ms. Pritzker also served as chairman of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, co-founder and board chair of Chicago-based civic-tech organization P33, and chair of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Advisory Council.  In addition to those roles, Ms. Pritzker is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Pritzker has launched a number of businesses across a variety of sectors and is the former executive chairman of the board of TransUnion and a past board member of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, Marmon Group, and LaSalle Bank Corporation.

Ms. Pritzker was formerly a member of President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the board of trustees of Stanford University, the Harvard University Board of Overseers, was co-chair of the Cyber Readiness Institute and founded Skills for America’s Future. Ms. Pritzker also served on President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and his Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Ms. Pritzker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. Ms. Pritzker and her husband, Dr. Bryan Traubert, co-founded the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation that works to foster increased economic opportunity for Chicago’s families. 

Oleksiy Povolotskiy is a law professional, he joined DTEK in 2010 and was the Director of Corporate Governance and Compliance till 2024. He is a member of the Supervisory Boards of DTEK Energy B.V. and DTEK Grids B.V. Since 2022, amidst Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Povolotskiy headed the Working Group on Humanitarian and Technical Aid.  During 2022-2024 fruitful relationships were established with European energy companies, equipment manufacturers, and international and governmental organizations such as USAID and the Energy Community Secretariat. Considering (i) the huge level of destruction of energy infrastructure and (ii) the need to develop Ukraine's energy sector, the Office for Energy Infrastructure Recovery was established this year.