Ukrainian Renaissance – International Conference

Mykhailo Vynnytskyi (online)

Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, public activist, educator, and author of intellectual publications. He has an MA degree and PhD at Cambridge University, Great Britain

Vít Samek

Former paramedic and publicist. For many years he worked as a paramedic with the Prague City Emergency Medical Service. He became known for his public criticism of conditions in the Ambulance Service, from the purchase of unsafe ambulances to the lack of sanctions for abuse of the ambulance service and unnecessary trivial calls.

Since February 2022, he has devoted his life to helping Ukraine, together with Liberal Institute, founded humanitarian mission to Ukraine ‘Operace Kyseláč’ (Operation Sour Ale), which has delivered over $ 800k worth of material to the country.

Pavel Potužák

PhD at the Prague University of Economics and Business. He specializes in the Austrian theory of the business cycle, capital and interest and the neoclassical theory of economic growth, interest and monetary theory.

Martin Pánek

Director of the Liberal Institute, Czechia’s oldest think tank, based in Prague.
Martin spent six years in the European Parliament as an assistant to Czech and British MEPs, promoting free trade, decentralization, open borders, and libertarian ideas in general.

Now in the think tank world, Martin has been promoting the same ideas and has pushed the think tank to grow in every year. In the past year, much of the Institute’s time and resources have been dedicated to its humanitarian mission to Ukraine which is called “Operace Kyseláč” (Operation Sour Ale), which has delivered over $ 800k worth of material to the country.

Volodymyr Viatrovych

Ukrainian historian, publicist, politician, and public figure. Doctor of philosophy. People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.

Daniil Lubkin

Regional Development Officer of the Ayn Rand Center in Ukraine, co-founder of the youth libertarian NGO ‘Ukrainian Students for Freedom’.

Anatolii Didyk

Volunteer, public activist, II COO of the NGO ‘Ukrainian Students for Freedom’, co-founder of the NGO ‘Kyiv Humanitarian Headquarters’.

Jaroslav Hrycak

Ukrainian historian and publicist, doctor of historical sciences, and professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Editor-in-chief of the scientific yearbook ]Modern Ukraine’, member of the editorial board of the magazines “Ab Imperio”, ‘Judaica Ukrainica’, “Krytyka”, ‘Slavic Review], and member of the supervisory board of the magazine ‘Harvard Ukrainian Studies’. Honorary professor of NaUKMA. Has more than 500 scientific publications on historical topics.

Jana Galvis

Analyst at Liberal Institute, focusing on South American economics and trade relations between Europe and South America.

Denys Zeinalov

A functionary of the NGO ‘Ukrainian Students for Freedom’. Public and political activist, diplomat, international political scientist, expert on international relations, volunteer, and secretary of the youth council at the Rozdilna city council.

Veronika Homolová

Veronika Homolova is a PhD student at the Institute of International Studies of the Charles University in the field of Modern History. She is interested in the concept of territorial autonomy and the right to self-determination. In the last two years, she has been a long-term OSCE and EU election observer in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Hungary and Kenya. She has also briefly observed local elections in Kosovo.

Oksana Savchuk

Ukrainian politician, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, and member of the political party All-Ukrainian Association ‘Svoboda (Freedom)’. From December 2015 to August 2019, the secretary of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council.

Volodymyr Yeshkielev

Modern Ukrainian postmodernist writer, master of prose, poet, essayist, screenwriter, screenwriter and traveller.

Nataliya Melnyk

Director of the Bendukidze Free Market Center, an independent think tank founded in 2015 by friends and associates of Kakha Bendukidze. She joined the Center’s team in 2016 as a communications manager. After that, she worked as a manager of the development and project activities of the organization for two years. A graduate of the National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ majoring in political science.

Roman Sheremeta

Ukrainian economist, scientist, founding rector of the private university American University Kyiv, doctor of philosophy in economics. Professor of the School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

According to Forbes, he is one of the two best Ukrainian economists of 2015.

Kevin Flanagan

Director of Training & Engagement at Students For Liberty. He has a BA in law and completed a master’s degree in politics, philosophy and economics at the CEVRO Institute in Prague. Driven by the belief that our world can be freer and fairer, he has been actively promoting freedom since 2009, when he founded the first Irish Freedom Forum. Since 2015, Kevin has been an active member of the international organization Students For Liberty.

Adil Abduramanov

Director of regional development of the Ukrainian State University. Ex-president of ELSA Ukraine, adviser on foreign relations to the President of ELSA International.

Vitalii Pereviznyk

Public and political activist, director of the municipal enterprise ‘Memory’, engaged in the search and reburial of victims of wars, deportations and repressions of totalitarian regimes. Ex-head of the public council at the Ivano-Frankivsk State Administration. Head of the Student Fraternity from March 1994 to October 1995.

Ihor Chudyk

Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Rector of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas.

Bohdan Rudkovskyi

Entrepreneur, doctor of primary health care. Volunteer and activist from Mariupol.

Vladyslav Sokha

Public activist, project manager of the youth public organization ‘Stan’ in the ‘Try krapky (Three points)’ program.

Maryana Tsyhanyn

Head of the Youth Policy Department of the Department of Youth Policy and Sports of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, director of the NGO ‘Violla’, founder of the All-Ukrainian youth magazine ‘Repost’, author and presenter of TV projects.

Viktor Vintonyak

Patron, entrepreneur, board member of the Ivano-Frankivsk Business Association, coordinator of the ‘City Development Strategy 2030’ program.

Nataliya Vyshnevetska

Public activist, Head of the NGO ‘D.O.M.48.24’

Mykhailo Pustovoit

Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine

Vasyl Myroniuk

Rector of the Lviv Institute of Management (private university).