Oleksandr Sushko

Research Director at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kiev and member of the Maidan People’s Union council, he has also been director of the Centre for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine and has taken part in projects in favour of freedom of movement and the civic initiative for visa liberalisation, “Europe without Barriers”. He is Ukraine coordinator for the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum and director of the International Renaissance Foundation, an NGO, which supports citizens’ initiatives working for a democratic society in Ukraine as part of the Open Society network.