LMF2025
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Valerii Pekar
Ukrainian entrepreneur and public figure
Valerii Pekar has been an entrepreneur since 1992. He serves as an adjunct professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, the Business School and School of Public Management of Ukrainian Catholic University, Open University of Maidan, and the Ukrainian Academy of Leadership. He is the author of four books and was a member of the National Reforms Council from 2014 to 2016, also advising Ukraine’s Ministers of Economic Development and Trade during that time. Valerii is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Decolonization NGO.
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Anne Applebaum
The Atlantic; SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and commentator on international affairs, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe and authoritarianism
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Dorka Takácsy
German Marshall Fund of the United States; Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy