Director General of the news agency “Interfax-Ukraine”, and former press secretary of the President of Ukraine.
He served as Deputy Head of President’s Administration, and Secretary of the Information Policy Council under the President of Ukraine. Also, he was a member of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting.
A renowned expert in Ukraine and the EU, founder of the Scientific School of European Integration, expert of the Association for Regional Studies (UK), member of a number of global research networks: Jean Monnet Networks (EU), and Council for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University (USA).
Member of two specialized scientific councils: at Kyiv National Economic University named after V. Hetman, and at the National Aviation University of the State Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Founder of the Department of European Integration, Kyiv National University of Economics, Doctor of Economics, Professor of Jean Monnet Chair (Jean Monnet Chair Program, EU).
An expert in digital governance and digitalization.
Ph.D. in Public Administration, Associate Professor, Head of the Chair for Information Policy and Digital Technologies at the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.
Editor-in-Chief of the scientific publication “Bulletin of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine”.
Professional in crisis communications solutions in the public sector.
Former Vice-President of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, and Head of the Main Department of Information Policy at the Administration of the President of Ukraine. Former Head of the Information Policy Department at the Football Federation of Ukraine.
Team Leader of the “Football Club” and “Pressing” online projects.
Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor. Lecturer in Media Management and Behavioral Economics in Media at the universities of Konstanz (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), La Sapienza (Rome, Italy), Adamas (Kolkata, India), and many others. Guest expert in documentary filmmaking of the Shanghai Media Group (Shanghai, China). From 2009 to 2014, he produced the STB TV channel projects “Ukraine’s Got Talent”, “X-Factor”, “So You Think You Can Dance”, “Bachelor”; and was the creative producer of “TELE-PRO” production at Media Group Ukraine.
Ph.D., MA in Public Administration majoring in IT and public administration. Author of the training programs “Reputation Management” and “Management of Communications in Public Bodies”.
She managed the communications of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the National Investment Agency. She was responsible for communications at the Euro-2012 National Agency hosting the European Football Championship “Euro-2012”; and served as PR-director of the Olimpiysky National Sports Complex during its construction, preparation and conduct of “Euro-2012”. Lesia takes pride in having created 12 press services for public authorities, politicians, and NGOs.