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Partner at CFC Big Ideas, Co-founder of Ukraine Crisis Media Center

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Vasyl Myroshnychenko is Partner at CFC Big Ideas, a Kyiv-based strategic communications firm. He has over 15 years of experience advising clients on corporate communications, public affairs and special situations. His clients include Google, Uber, PrivatBank, Embassy of Japan, CNN International, Horizon Capital and many others. Vasyl is a co-founder of Ukraine Crisis Media Center, a media NGO set up in early March of 2014 aimed at amplifying Ukraine’s voice internationally. It has been funded by international donors including the governments of the USA, Germany, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, NATO and private donors. Since 2008 he co-founded three start-ups in different sectors. One in the ticket reselling, another one in film industry and one in jewelry. He invested himself, raised seed capital and created teams. Neither of the companies survived. Recently, he invested in a 3D printing start-up. As a head of the LSE Alumni Association in Ukraine, Vasyl co-founded Professional Government Association in 2014, which he led as a President in 2015-2016. PGA is an umbrella organization for the Western University alumni in Ukraine, who were united to help advance the economic reforms. Vasyl was involved in youth politics when he was a student. In 2000, he co-founded the European Youth Parliament-Ukraine, a youth NGO, a chapter of the EYP in Ukraine. As a President of the organization in 2002-2004, he promoted Ukraine’s EU integration among the Ukrainian youth. He was a Chevening Scholar and obtained MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2006, UK). He also holds MA and BA degrees in international relations from Institute of International Relations, Kyiv National Shevchenko University (2002, 2003). He is a graduate of the Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry program at Iacocca Institute, Lehigh University (2002, USA) and Swedish Institute Management Program (Sweden, 2009). He completed an intensive two-week course on public affairs and advocacy at the Center of Congressional and Presidential Studies of the American University in Washington, DC in 2014. Vasyl is a Marshall Memorial Fellow’18, a prestigious leadership program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.



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