Maksym Khylko

PhD in Philosophy and MA in International Relations; Senior Research Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Chairman of the Board at the East European Security Research Initiative Foundation and its representative to the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions; Co-ordinator of the “Security and Stability” subgroup of WG1 at the Ukrainian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. Prior to this, he worked for many years as a Senior Research Fellow at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, a Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, and a political analyst and consultant. 

He is a graduate of the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; an author of more than 50 academic publications and more than 100 policy papers on international relations, foreign and domestic policy, social communications and media analysis; a regular participant of international and all-Ukrainian conferences and round tables.

His main research interests include:

• East European security, 
• EU Eastern Partnership, 
• Ukraine’s policy towards Russia and Belarus, 
• Ukraine-NATO partnership, 
• Ukraine-OSCE, 
• countering hybrid threats, 
• social communications and media influence.