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March 3-4 2021 -- BROCHURE US UKRAINE DIALOGUE XII Divining the New Administration’s Approach to Ukraine’s Most Pressing Security Issues ONLINE WEBINAR MARCH 3-4, 2021 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE US-Ukraine Security Dialogue XII, a two day (March 3-4, 2021) morning/early afternoon event, will feature four panel discussions and two highlight focus sessions dedicated to gauging how the Biden national security and foreign policy team might deal with (and hopefully aid) Ukraine’s efforts to thwart military threats, threats of political subversion, undue economic/energy pressures and varied disinformation campaigns. The gathering will also give prominence, as tradition would have it, to considering why Ukraine’s security still matters both to its neighbors and the world at large. DIALOGUE INVOCATION Oh Lord, Master of Heaven and Earth You have graced Ukraine with Liberty, We beseech you to help Her sustain Your precious gift STEERING COMMITTEE IIan Berman Andrij Dobriansky Andriy Futey Rich Harrison Mykola Hryckowian Nadia McConnell Roman Myhal Tamara Olexy Borys Potapenko Herman Pirchner Walter Zaryckyj EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR Mykola Hryckowian ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATORS Tamara Olexy Andrij Dobriansky PROGRAM COORDINATOR Walter Zaryckyj SPONSORS American Foreign Policy Council Center For US-Ukrainian Relations Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Ukrainian National Information Service PATRONS Buduchnist Credit Union Jurkiw Family Foundation Heritage Foundation Self Reliance NY Federal Credit Union PROGRAM US-Ukraine Security Dialogue XII: Divining the New Administration’s Approach to Ukraine’s Most Pressing Security Issues March 3 - 4, 2021 Venue: ZOOM WEBINAR First Day – Wednesday – March 3, 2021 9:30 am – 9:55 am – Word of Welcome – A Word from the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus Featured Speaker: HE Volodymyr Yelchenko [Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA] Featured Speaker: Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) 9:55 am – 10:30 am – Dialogue Focus Session I Theme: What the New Administration Should Understand About The Security Needs of Ukraine Chair: Amb. William Taylor [Vice President, Strategic Stability and Security/United States Institute of Peace] Featured Speaker: Yulia Laputina [Minister for Veterans' Affairs of Ukraine] 10:30 am – 11:45 am – Dialogue Panel Discussion I Theme: How Might the New Administration Aid Ukraine in Securing Itself Against Internal Subversion Moderator: Herman Pirchner [President/American Foreign Policy Council] Panelist: Hanna Hopko [Board Chair/National Interests Advocacy Network «AНTС»] Panelist: Amb. Daniel Fried [Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow/Atlantic Council] Lead Discussant: Adrian Karatnycky [Senior Fellow/Atlantic Council] 11:45 am – 1:00 pm – Dialogue Panel Discussion II Theme: How Might the New Administration Aid Ukraine in Securing Itself Against External Aggression Moderator: Amb. John Herbst [Eurasia Center Director/Atlantic Council] Panelist: Oleksander Lytvynenko [Director/UA National Institute of Strategic Studies] Panelist: LTG (ret.) Ben Hodges [Chair in Strategic Studies/Center for European Policy Analysis] Lead Discussant: Stephen Blank [Senior Fellow/Foreign Policy Research Institute] 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Special Word on the “Material Resources” Security Needs of Ukraine Chair: Mykola Hryckowian [DC Director/Center for US-Ukrainian Relations & President/ODFFU] Featured Speaker: Roman Mashovets [Dep. Head of the Office of the President on Nat. Sec. & Defense] Second Day – Thursday – March 4 2021 9:50 am – 10:00 am – Reprise of the First Day 10:00 am – 11:15 am – Dialogue Panel Discussion III Theme: How Might the New Administration Aid Ukraine in Matters of Economic & Energy Security Moderator: Amb. William Courtney [Executive Director/RAND Business Leaders Forum] Panelist: Mykhailo Honchar [President/Center for Global Studies ‘Strategy XXI’] Panelist: Anders Åslund [Eurasia Center Senior Fellow/Atlantic Council] Lead Ariel Cohen [Energy, Growth and Security Program Director/International Tax and Discussant: Investment Center] 11:15 am – 12:30 pm – Dialogue Panel Discussion IV Theme: How Might the New Administration Aid Ukraine in Combatting Disinformation & Providing Cyber-Security Moderator: Amb. Roman Popadiuk [President/Diplomacy Center Foundation] Panelist: Ostap Kryvdyk [Chair/Ukraine & the World Programme/Ukr. Catholic University] Panelist: Paul Goble [Editor/WOE Editor-Eurasian Daily Monitor/Jamestown Foundation] Lead Katerina Sedova [Research Fellow/Center for Security and Emerging Technology/ Discussant: Georgetown University] 12:30 pm – 1:05 pm – Dialogue Focus Session II Theme: What the Ukrainian Government Might Expect from the New Administration in Security Assistance Matters Chair: Orest Deychakiwsky [Co-Chair/Transatlantic Task Force on Ukraine] Featured Speaker: Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) [Chair/US Helsinki Commission] 1:05 pm – 1:30 pm – Closing Remarks Session Theme: A Word about the 117th Congress Chair: Andriy Futey [President/Ukrainian Congress Committee of America] Featured Speaker: Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) [House Committee on Appropriations] BIOGRAPHIES Anders Åslund is presently a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. Dr. Åslund has long engaged in monitoring the transformation of formerly socialist economies to market- based economies. While the central areas of his studies are Russia and Ukraine, he also focuses on the broader implications of economic transition. Immediately prior to his tenure at the Council, the renowned Swedish economist was Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics; earlier, he served as Director of the Russian/Eurasian Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Stephen Blank is currently Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; immediately prior to his present position, he was Senior Fellow on Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council. Earlier, Dr. Blank spent 24 years, 1989-2013, as a Professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA. His expertise covers the entire Russian and post-Soviet region and he has also written extensively on defense strategy, arms control, information warfare, energy issues, US foreign and defense policy, European, and Asian security. Ben Cardin (D-MD) currently serves as US Senator from Maryland. Senator Cardin has a deep interest in foreign affairs and has worked across party lines to further our national security and protect universal human rights. He has fought to ensure that anti-corruption, transparency and respect for human rights are integrated our foreign policy. He has been a Commissioner on the U.S. Helsinki Commission since 1993, serving as Chairman of the Commission in the current 117th, as well as the 113th and 111th Congresses. Senator Cardin serves as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee/Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues. He previously has served as the Ranking Member of the SFRC East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee, and he is the former Chairman of the International Development and Foreign Assistance Subcommittee. Ariel Cohen is a well-known international expert on Ukrainian, Russian, Eurasian, European and Middle Eastern foreign, security and economic affairs; global energy security; terrorism and organized crime. He is presently Director of the Program on Energy, Growth and Security at International Tax and Investment Center; concurrently, he is a Non Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. For many years previous, Dr. Cohen served as Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security at the Heritage Foundation, working closely with Congressmen and Congressional staff members and cabinet-level foreign decision makers. William Courtney is presently an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum. In 2014 he retired from Computer Sciences Corporation as senior principal for federal policy strategy. From 1972 to 1999, he was a foreign service officer in the U.S. State Department. He co-chaired the U.S. delegation to the review conference that prepared for the 1999 Istanbul Summit of the OSCE in Europe and advised in the reorganization of U.S. foreign affairs agencies, mandated by the Foreign Affairs Reform Act of 1999. Earlier he served as special assistant to the President for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia and as Ambassador to Georgia and Kazakhstan. Orest Deychakiwsky is Co-chairman of the Transatlantic Task Force on Ukraine (TTFU). Concurrently, he is a Senior Advisor at the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council. Earlier, Mr. Deychakiwsky worked at the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), an independent US government agency, covering many issues and countries during a 36 year tenure (1981-2017). His country responsibilities included Ukraine and Belarus. While at the Commission, he served as a member of official US delegations to numerous conferences and meetings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/CSCE); additionally, he managed to observe nearly three dozen elections in nine countries, mostly as a member of US delegations to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly international election observation missions. Daniel Fried, a veteran American diplomat, currently holds an appointment as Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. Ambassador
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