Hennadiy Maksak

Executive Director

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Hennadiy Maksak is the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” Executive Director.

Studied economics (Chernihiv state institute for economics and management), political sciences (Warsaw University, Center for East European Studies).

In 2006-2015 he was the president of the Polissya Foundation for International and Regional Studies. In 2012-2014 was a member of Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. From 2016 he is a member of SC of Ukrainian national platform of the EaP Civil Society Forum.

Head  of the Civic Council under the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Fields of interest:

  • International relations and foreign policy of Ukraine,
  • security in the Eastern Europe,
  • Eastern partnership policy,
  • European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine,
  • diplomatic service,
  • economic diplomacy

Recent Publications

The role of Ukraine in shaping EU-NATO cooperation on defence capabilities

To reinforce strategic partnership with NATO, the EU strategies seek to generate financial resources to develop capabilities by the EU Member States in line with NATO capability targets, regional defence plans and command and control structures.

Lines and Lanes: Exploring Europe’s role in securing just and lasting peace in Ukraine

The EU has been one of the most active promoters of the Peace Formula initiative proposed by President Zelenskyy. European institutions and member states provided substantial support in the preparation for the first Global Summit on Peace in Ukraine, held in Switzerland in June 2024.

EU’s autonomous collective defence capabilities 

How to defend itself and be a credible European NATO pillar?