Speaker
Adrian Karatnycky
Adrian Karatnycky is Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council where he directs Ukraine programs. He is the founder and Managing Partner of the Myrmidon Group LLC, a business advisory, and co-executive director of the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter. For twelve years, he was the President and CEO of Freedom House, a major U.S.-based pro-democracy non-governmental organization. Karatnycky has co-authored and edited over twenty books focused on the post-Communist space and global trends in reform. A respected expert on Ukraine and Eastern Europe, he writes regularly for Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also a regular television commentator on Ukraine and Russia for MSNBC and the PBS Newshour.