Hometown: Washington D.C.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (Medford, MA). Ambassador Herbst also attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy
 
Professional Experience: John Herbst is the director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Ambassador Herbst served for thirty-one years as a foreign service officer in the US Department of State, retiring at the rank of career minister. He was the US ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006. Prior to his ambassadorship in Ukraine, he was the ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2003. Ambassador Herbst previously served as US consul general in Jerusalem; principal deputy to the ambassador-at-large for the Newly Independent States; director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs; director of regional affairs in the Near East Bureau; and at the embassies in Tel Aviv, Moscow, and Saudi Arabia.

Hometown: Boston, MA
 
Education: University of Massachusetts, BA in Political Science
 
Professional Experience: Major Gift Officer, Pathfinder International, Simmons College (retired) 4 years. Relationship Manager, Travelex Foreign Exchange Trader North America 10 years. 12 years as a Board Member, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
 
 

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
 
Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A.), the University of Massachusetts Amherst (M.L.A.), and Northeastern University School of Law (J.D.)
 
Professional Experience: Attorney specializing in real property, construction and related commercial contracts. Over 25 years’ as Associate General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania (current position). Ten+ years serving on the Board of Directors at local Ukrainian-American credit union, including 4 years as Board Chair (current position). Chairman, Ukrainian Community Foundation of Philadelphia
 

Hometown: Cambridge, MA
 
Education: Undergraduate degree at Harvard, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School
 
Professional Experience: In the course of his career at Oliver Wyman (currently a Partner), Adrian has written 8 books on strategy, from Value Migration and the Profit Zone, to The Upside and Demand. Adrian also teaches at the Lviv Business School. His most recent book, written in conjunction with LvBS, is entitled David Wins: The Discipline of Asymmetric Competition. It is available in draft form on the LvBS website
 

Hometown: Cambridge, MA
 
Education: Undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, a master's degree in teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) to adults from Boston University
 
Professional Experience: Editor and teacher of English as a second language; community activist and fundraiser, most recently for the Ukrainian Catholic University
 

Hometown: Washington D.C.
 
Education: Ambassador Steiner received a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in international relations from Columbia University
 
Professional Experience: Served from 2011 to 2018 as a gender advisor for the U.S. Institute of Peace. Ambassador Steiner previously served in the Department of State’s Office of Global Women‘s Issues and the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. He was the director of the Department’s Iraqi Women’s Democracy Initiative. Steiner served for 36 years in the United States Foreign Service. He completed tours of duty at the U.S. embassy in Moscow and the State Department’s Offices of Soviet Union and West German Affairs and served as the deputy director of the Department’s Operations Center, its 24-hour crisis management facility. He served from 1983 to 1988 as director of Defense Programs on the National Security Council Staff. He was named by President Reagan as the U.S. Representative to the Special Verification Commission, the implementing body for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and was named by President George H. W. Bush in September 1991 to serve as the U.S. Representative to the Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission, the implementing body for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
 

Hometown: Boston, MA
 
Education: University of Connecticut, BA in Literature, Northeastern University, MBA
 
Professional experience: Managing Director, Corporate & Investment Banking, Bank of America (retired), 10 years as Program Operations Director for Asia, The Pathfinder Fund. 7 years as a Board Member, the Sheffield Land Trust (current)

Hometown: Sudbury, MA
 
Education: University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Bachelor of Fine Arts
 
Professional Experience: Vice President and Trustee, Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia, Boston, MA. Former President of the Sabre Foundation, Cambridge, MA. Extensive experience in international development, state government and community service. Significant cross-cultural expertise with work-related travel to over 60 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Hometown: Washington D.C.
 
Education: West Point and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
 
Professional experience: William B. Taylor is the executive vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Earlier, he was the special coordinator for Middle East Transitions in the U.S. State Department. He oversaw assistance and support to Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. Hef also served as the U.S. government's representative to the Mideast Quartet, which facilitated the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. He served in Baghdad as the first director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office from 2004 to 2005, and in Kabul as coordinator of international and U.S. assistance to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003. Ambassador Taylor was also coordinator of U.S. assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He earlier served on the staff of Senator Bill Bradley.