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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.

Sylvia Scheurer is a visiting fellow in GMF’s Ukraine Cities Partnership, where she focuses on financing solutions for Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction. She is an independent consultant and adviser, and the founder of a Barcelona-based advisory practice specializing in innovative and sustainable finance for development. With more than 15 years of experience across the UN system, governments, and the private sector, she has advised partners such as UNICEF, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the UN Foundation, and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). She focuses on innovative financing instruments, blended finance, and public-private collaboration to support the transition from funding to financing. Scheurer co-authored UNICEF’s Global Innovative Finance for Children Strategy, contributed to the Fourth UN Financing for Development Conference (FfD4), and has led feasibility studies and advisory work on health financing across several African countries. She holds master’s degrees in international relations and in art history and philosophy and has given guest lectures and talks on development finance and innovation.

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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.

July 10, 2025