Anatoliy Maksymovych Zlenko was a Ukrainian diplomat. He served as Ukraine's first Foreign Minister from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2000 to 2003. Zlenko was previously the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations from 1994 to 1997.
Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev is a Russian politician who served as the former and the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation under President Boris Yeltsin,in office for the Russian SFSR from October 1990 and,after the dissolution of the Soviet Union,from 1992 until January 1996 for Russia. In his position,he was credited with developing Russia's foreign policy immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union,although many in Russia have criticized him for being weak and not assertive enough in defending Russian interests in the face of NATO in places such as Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ba'athist Iraq.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who has served as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
Arturo Sarukhán Casamitjana is a former ambassador of Mexico to the United States. A consultant and public speaker,he is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution,an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University,a distinguished visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California,and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. He writes a biweekly column in Mexico City's El Universal newspaper and frequently publishes op-eds in U.S. media outlets. He also participates in a weekly Mexican television newscast on Milenio TV and a weekly radio segment on Enfoque Noticias.
William Brockenbrough Taylor Jr. is an American diplomat,government official,and former military officer. He served as the 6th United States ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama,and as chargéd’affaires to Ukraine from June 2019 to January 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Alexander John Motyl is an American historian,political scientist,poet,writer,translator and artist-painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark,New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine,Russia,and the Soviet Union.
Membership in the Council on Foreign Relations comes in two types:Individual and Corporate. Individual memberships are further subdivided into two types:Life Membership and Term Membership,the latter of which is for a single period of five years and is available to those between the ages of 30 and 36 at the time of their application. Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have applied for U.S. citizenship are eligible. A candidate for life membership must be nominated in writing by one Council member and seconded by a minimum of three others.
The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was founded in 1974 to carry out studies of the Soviet Union (Sovietology),and subsequently of post-Soviet Russia and other post-Soviet states. The institute is widely regarded as the foremost institute for advanced Russia studies in the United States.
Kurt Douglas Volker is an American diplomat who served as George W. Bush's last U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Later he served as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership and in a volunteer capacity as Donald J. Trump's U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine until his resignation on September 27,2019.
Roman Popadiuk is an American diplomat of Ukrainian descent. Popadiuk served as the first United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H. W. Bush,from 1992 to 1993. From 2015 until 2017,he was a principal at Morgan,Lewis &Bockius LLP's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting,and prior to 2015 he was the principal at Bingham Consulting. Since late 2018 Popadiuk has been the president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation which oversees the development of the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
Andreas Umland is a German political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He has published on the post-Soviet extreme right,municipal decentralization,European fascism,post-communist higher education,East European geopolitics,Ukrainian and Russian nationalism,the Donbas and Crimea conflicts,as well as the neighborhood and enlargement policies of the European Union. He is a Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv as well as a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. He lives in Kyiv,and teaches as an Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2005–2014,he was involved in the creation of a Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Jena University.
Yuriy Mykolayovych Shcherbak is a Ukrainian writer,screenwriter,publicist,epidemiologist,politician,diplomat,environmental activist and political analyst. Doctor of Medicine (1983),Laureate of Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984).
Mikhail Minakov is a philosopher,political scholar and historian,Doctor of Philosophy. His studies focus on human experience,social knowledge,the phenomenon of ideology,political creativity,and the history of modernization.
The Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies (UAJS) is a non-profit academic and professional non-governmental organization that brings together Ukrainian scholars and students who work in the field of Jewish studies. The UAJS was established in 2015.
The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library is the library system of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,one of the oldest universities in Ukraine,founded in 1615,closed in 1817 and revived in 1991. It is a key academic resource that supports the teaching,learning,and research goals of the university;its various materials can be accessed by students,scholars,and the general public. Almost 70% are books and periodicals,donated by individuals,institutions and organizations from around the world. Library is composed of several locations across the university campus.
Mykola Andriyovych Kulinich is a Ukrainian diplomat. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine.
Kristina A. Kvien is an American diplomat who has served as United States ambassador to Armenia since February 2023. She previously served as United States chargéd’affaires to Ukraine from May to June 2019 and from January 2020 to May 2022. From June 2019 to January 2020,she was deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the United States in Kyiv.
George P. Kent is an American diplomat. He is ambassador to Estonia since February 21,2023. George Kent served as deputy assistant secretary of state for the European and Eurasian Affairs from 2018 to 2021. As a United States Foreign Service officer,his early service has included assignments in the U.S. diplomatic missions to Poland,Thailand and Uzbekistan. In 2004,he was assigned to serve as deputy political counselor in Kyiv,Ukraine,and was deputy chief of mission in Kyiv from 2015 to 2018.
Bridget Ann Brink is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. In April 2022,she was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the United States ambassador to Ukraine,and presented her credentials in May 2022. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Slovakia from August 20,2019,until May 18,2022.
