Our Events

Hard talks about the future of Ukraine with Yuriy Husyev General Director, Concern Ukroboronprom

Time: Jun 2, 2022 07:00 PM Kiev
Why should the defense industry be the locomotive of economic recovery?
 
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Moderator: Sergii Markovskyi, Board member Professional Government Association (PGA)

Meeting ID: 841 7759 3328
Passcode: 508972

Espresso Session with military expert Glen Grant

Time: Apr 4, 2022 07:00 PM Kiev
Espresso Sessions are informal online talks with foreign experts.
During each 45-minute event, the participants will get to know foreign leaders as individuals and learn more about their experience.
 
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Espresso Sessions are informal online talks with foreign experts. During each 45-minute event, the participants will get to know foreign leaders as individuals and learn more about their experience.
B: SPEAKER
Lt Col (Retd) Glen Grant, formerly British Army, works as a defense and reform expert in Ukraine for the Ukrainian Institute for the Future. Previously, he worked with the Ukrainian Parliament as a defense and security expert. Glen graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Joint Staff Defence College at the Royal Naval College Greenwich. During his 37 year military career, he commanded the UK Military Prison and an Artillery battery of 8 tracked guns. He worked on the operational and policy staffs in MOD UK, various army headquarters and Combined Air Operations Centre 5 in Italy. He was Defence Attaché in Finland, Estonia and Latvia.
His key work in the last twenty years has been delivering reform and change for defense and security organisations in Europe. He has worked in the defense ministries or armed forces of fifteen European countries including Ukraine, Bulgaria and Poland. In January 2018, Glen published a ground breaking paper on Reform of the Ukraine Military in Kiev Post.
He has a Masters degree in the Leadership of Innovation and Change from York St John University in UK. Glen lives in Latvia and is a lecturer in strategy and crisis management at Riga Business School.
C: REGISTRATION
The event is open to everyone. To join, click on Zoom link below.
Time: Apr 4, 2022 07:00 PM Kiev
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82013746028…
Meeting ID: 820 1374 6028
Passcode: 513199
D: EVENT
Due to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, we will concentrate on how Ukraine can faster win this war, how we can support our country now and in its post-war reconstruction. You will be able to ask questions and interact with our speaker.

You are welcome to join our 45-minutes Zoom discussion with Glen Grant!

Open online seminar by Prof. Carl Hobert on the role of women in conflict resolution and reconstruction

We are pleased to invite you TOMORROW, 4th of March (7 pm Kyiv time) to an open online seminar by Prof. Carl Hobert on the role of women in conflict resolution and reconstruction. Its a join event of Professional Government Association of Ukraine and Harvard Club of Ukraine.

Prof. Carl F. Hobert is the author of “Raising Global IQ: Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet” (Beacon Press, 2013). He also heads the Axis of Hope Center for International Conflict Management and Prevention, a Boston-based nonprofit organisation that offers conflict-resolution simulation workshops for both students and educators in middle and high schools around the world. In this capacity, he lectures worldwide and hosts workshops for students and educators. Hobert earned a master’s in law and diplomacy from the Tufts Fletcher School.
Prof. Hobert took part in reconstruction of Rwanda after genocide in 1994. Since then women political leadership in Rwanda is apparent at all levels from national to district to cell level and it is this structure that has been the foundation for so much success in Rwanda.

A conversation with Governor Howard Dean about how Ukrainians should advocate to get the needed support from the US and the EU, from air defense to EU oil embargo on Russia

Dear Professional Government Association of Ukraine and Harvard Club of Ukraine members, Join us in a conversation with Governor Howard Dean about how Ukrainians should advocate to get the needed support from the US and the EU, from air defense to EU oil embargo on Russia. What are Biden’s red lines on Ukraine? What messages does he deem important? What policies the Democratic administration is likely to support and how to advocate for them?

If there is someone who could answer these questions, it is Howard Dean, a former Democratic politician with 30 years of experience in policymaking and foreign policy. As a former chairman of Democratic Party’s governing body, Democratic National Committee, Presidential Candidate, and six-term Governor of Vermont, Governor Dean understands every detail of the Democratic policymaking process. He currently leads democracy promotion in Ukraine and other Eastern European states as the Board Member of the National Democratic Institutes and teaches foreign policy to Yale students as a Senior Fellow at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Register to the conversation with Governor Dean to learn how to advocate for Ukraine more effectively via https://bit.ly/3CU1W58.

The event is organized by Ukraine Global Scholars and Professional Government Association of Ukraine

WHAT YOU PERSONALLY CAN DO TO SUPPORT UKRAINE

Dear Student or Alumni! HERE IS WHAT YOU PERSONALLY CAN DO TO SUPPORT UKRAINE! We have prepared a statement requesting a recognition of russian shameful invasion that you can send to your university leadership teams: we recommend reaching your Deans and Admission Heads. Public outreach by academia will bring this issue to the attention of valuable stakeholders. Since many professors serve as advisors to governments, this will put pressure on politicians to support Ukraine directly!
 

Please see the email statement for that you should use in your message https://docs.google.com/…/15VS-M05Po0-Cm…/edit…. Please feel free to add your name and your degree details in signature section in order to make this statement more impactful. We would also ask you to Cc PGA official email proukrgov.ua@gmail.com in your correspondence.

We are asking for three things: to release an official community and media statements supporting Ukraine and condemning Russian unjustified and brutal invasion; to divest from Russian funds and projects that directly or indirectly benefit the Russian army, and to financially support Ukrainian students in times of hardship.

Recommended actions:
1. Copy the email from the document and send it to your University Leadership teams, Salvic Departments, professors, student Organisations etc.
2. Get feed-back from your University and make this information public (through FB, impact groups like us…). YOU ARE THE HERO! If you have support of some professors or departments, it will be easier to convince the leadership team!
3. Ask you University for more actions! If your university teams agree to at least one ask, this is already a great WIN! However, the more actions, the better!

Once you sent the email, please mark your progress in the google document attached. Include your school name, your email address, and the status.If any actions were taken, please update the tracking sheet in the necessary column.

Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes! Слава Україні! Героям Слава!

Please contact me if you have any question or would like to share your results with our communities!

Kostiantyn Lisnychyi
Chairman, Professional Government Association
Secretary, Board Member, Harvard Club of Ukraine
Tel.: +380674103143 (all messengers)
Email: harvardclubofukraine@gmail.com (office), Lkmexpert@gmail.com (private)
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