U.S.-UKRAINE BUSINESS COUNCIL

A strong international voice for business in Ukraine now
Promoting U.S.-Ukraine business relations since 1995
Washington D.C.

Senior Advisors

SENIOR ADVISORS, U.S.-UKRAINE BUSINESS COUNCIL, 2025

1.

Anders Aslund
Senior Fellow, Stockholm Free World Forum
Washington, D.C.

2.

Edward C. Chow
Senior Associate,
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Washington, D.C.

3.

Ariel Cohen, PhD
Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council,
Director, Energy, Growth & Security Program, ITIC 
Founding Principal, International Market Analysis, Ltd
Washington D.C.

 

 

4.

Orest Deychakiwsky
Former Policy Adviser for Belarus,
Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine
U.S. Helsinki Commission (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Charles Town, West Virginia

5.

Betsy Hafner
Former Deputy Assistant USTR for Russia and Eurasia,
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Washington, D.C.

6.

John Herbst
Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Washington, D.C.

7.

Lt. Gen. (ret) Michael L. Howard
President, ML Howard Consulting, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia

8.

Marcy Kaptur 
U.S. Congresswoman (D-OH)
Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Congressional Ukraine Caucus
Washington, D.C.

9.

Anatoliy Kinakh
President,
League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine,
Kyiv, Ukraine

10.

Leonid Kozachenko
President
Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation (UAC)
Kyiv, Ukraine
 

11.

Robert "Bob" McConnell
Principal,
R. A. McConnell & Associates, and
Co-Founder, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF),
Washington, D.C.

12.

Alan Merbaum
Expert in Aerospace and Defense Industry, Board Member of Ukrainian Freedom Fund (UFF), Vice Chairman of the International Division of the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) 
Washington, D.C. 

13.

Olexander Motsyk
Former Ukrainian Ambassador
to the USA, Poland and Turkey
Kyiv, Ukraine

14.

Steven Pifer,
William J. Perry Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Non-resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. Washington D.C.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

15.

Roman Popadiuk
First U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Washington, D.C.

16.

Oleh Shamshur
Former Ambassador of Ukraine to  
The United States and France
Kyiv, Ukraine

 

17.

William Taylor,
Vice President, Strategic Stability and Security
United States Institute of Peace
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Washington, D.C.

18.

John Tefft, 
Former U.S. Ambassador to 
Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine and Russia;
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Rand Corporation

19.

Kurt Volker
Distinguished Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA);
Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2008-2009) and
Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (2017-2019)
Washington, D.C.

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