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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. 

Natalie Jaresko is a leader in EY-Parthenon’s Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy practice, overseeing sovereign advisory efforts and complex public sector turnarounds.

Natalie is a proven executive with a distinguished 30-year career leading large-scale government transformations that restructure debt and marshal limited resources to prioritize essential services and strengthen budgetary practices, financial reporting and transparency. As Executive Director of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board from 2017 to 2023, Natalie oversaw critical reforms and the largest debt restructuring in US municipal bond market history. Further, as Ukraine’s Minister of Finance from 2014-16, Natalie successfully restructured Ukraine’s sovereign debt and negotiated its wide-ranging IMF program.

Natalie is a CPA with a MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a BS in Accounting from DePaul University. Two presidents of Ukraine presented awards to Natalie for her distinguished service. Natalie serves on multiple not-for-profit boards, including as Chairperson of Aspen Institute Kyiv.

Since 2017, Martina Boguslavets has been the Executive Director and founder of the Institute of Legislative Ideas. Martina Boguslavets is an expert with more than 10 years experience in GR, fighting corruption, and preventing corruption risks. Martina is leading the direction of transparent rebuilding of Ukraine without corruption and reforming law enforcement agencies. She is working on implementing mechanisms for accountable reconstruction, providing recommendations to public authorities and international partners to support the reforms. Martina leads the direction of increasing the institutional capacity of cities, strengthening the integrity of local authorities, preventing corruption, and ensuring transparent use of reconstruction funds. The developer of the Methodology for anti-corruption assessment of draft normative and legal acts of local self-government authorities. Boguslavets has experience working with the Ukrainian Parliament as a member of the Public Expert Council under the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Prevention and Counteraction to Corruption (2015-2019) and as the head of the project on public-parliamentary protection of judges-whistleblowers on corruption with the involvement of judges, lawyers, and members of the Ukrainian Parliament. Has experience working with communal enterprises at the local level. Worked as a lawyer on legal issues in the office of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee and led the direction of liaison with law enforcement agencies and the Office of the Prosecutor General. She headed the "In the Name of Ukraine" project, which monitored investigations into the murders of participants in the Revolution of Dignity. Co-authored bills on anti-corruption courts and on preventing the persecution and punishment of persons who directly participated in hostilities in the ATO. Martina Boguslavets is a co-developer of the National Police reform strategy, author of a number of studies and analytical materials on risk prevention and ensuring accountable reconstruction, and speaker at national and international conferences.