Board of Directors
Ambassador William Green Miller
Co-Chairman of Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America
William Green Miller served as Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine from 1993 to 1998. Ambassador Miller led a distinguished career as a diplomat with extensive service related to Russia, Ukraine and Iran. He also served as Associate Dean and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Research Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and President of the American Committee on United States-Soviet Relations. He is a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars and serves in various foundations.
Ambassador Borys I. Tarasiuk
Co-Chairman of Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America
Ambassador Tarasyuk has twice served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Ambassador Tarasyuk served as Deputy Foreign Minister from 1992 to 1995 and served as Ambassador of Ukraine in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and as Ukraine’s Representative to NATO from 1995 to 1998. He served in the Cabinets of prime ministers Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Yekhanurov, and Viktor Yanukovych. Ambassador Borys Tarasyuk is the founder of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and serves as the Chairman of Ukraine’s Parliamentary Committee on European Integration.
David F. Bishop
David Bishop is University Librarian Emeritus at Northwestern University. He was University Librarian from 1992 through 2006, and prior to that, he was the University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Director of Libraries at the University of Georgia and Assistant Director for Technical Services at the University of Chicago. He has served on the governing boards of many organizations, including the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, EDUCOM, and The Coalition for Networked Information. Since 2008 he has been a principal adviser to the Electronic Library of Ukraine project.
Vyacheslav S. Bryukhovetsky
Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky served as the Founder and the President of the re-established National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy after the dismantling of the Soviet Union from 1991 to 2007. He then became the University’s Honorary President. In the past he served as chief of the Literature Department at Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, member of the National Academy of Science for UNESCO, founding member of the Rukh Movement for Ukrainian Independence. His distinguished career includes work as a published author, essayist, literary critic, political activist and educator. He is the recipient of numerous national and international awards in recognition for his pioneering leadership in education reform, and defense of academic freedom and university autonomy. He was ranked as one of Ukraine’s “Most Influential People of Ukraine” by the journal “Korrespondent”.
Marta Farion
President of Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America
Marta Farion is an attorney currently serving as Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation’s president. She was legal counsel at Redex Packaging Corp. with areas of concentration in business transactions, intellectual property, employment issues and project management. Ms. Farion is a member of the Executive Committee of the City of Chicago Mayor’s Office of International Relations – Sister Cities Program and served as chairperson of the Chicago-Kyiv Sister Cities Committee from 1995 to 2007, and in that capacity she organized and managed numerous government and business U.S. – Ukraine projects. Ms. Farion is chairperson of the board of the Electronic Library of Ukraine, a project aimed at providing access to electronic academic and research information to Ukraine’s universities.
Ivan Fizer (in memoriam)
Ivan Fizer, former Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University, was an internationally acclaimed literary scholar and critic, a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., and an international member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Ivan Fizer was past president of the American Association forUkrainian Studies. He held a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an Honorary Doctorate from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and was the author of numerous scholarly works. Dr. Fizer was a co-founder of the first group of supporters of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, known as the Mohyla Academic Society and a significant participant in the re-establishment of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 1991.
William Gleason
William Gleason, is Chair of Advanced Polish & Ukrainian Area Studies and Coordinator of Eurasian Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Gleason is a long time Russia and Eastern Europe expert who oversees a key training program for American diplomats preparing to serve in the region. Dr. Gleason served as Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and as director of the Fulbright Program for Ukraine in 1998 – 2000. He lectured at numerous universities including the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is the author of numerous books and publications on history, culture and interactions on Russia and Ukraine. His article "Ukrainian Higher Education in Transition: Perspective and Policy Implications," was published in the Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization in the Summer of 2001.
Daniel Hryhorczuk
Daniel Hryhorczuk is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He is the Director of the Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health, which is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. Dr. Hryhorczuk has been engaged in collaborative research and capacity building in public health in Ukraine for the past two decades. He is currently working on the "Family and Children of Ukraine" birth cohort study in Kyiv, Dniprodzerzhinsk, and Mariupol and is providing data management support to the U.S.-Ukrainian study of thyroid cancer in children following the Chornobyl accident. He is Visiting Professor in Public Health at NaUKMA and has served as a consultant to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and the World Bank. Dr. Hryhorczuk is a full international member of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Jaroslawa Zelinsky Johnson
Jaroslawa Zelinsky Johnson, is Managing Partner of Chadbourne and Parke’s Kyiv law office. She has advised international corporate clients doing business in Ukraine and the CIS for more than 16 years. Ms. Johnson focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, banking, project finance and privatization, corporate governance and finance, secured transactions and government relations. She focused initially on corporate representation in Poland. In 1991 she expanded her law practice to Ukraine, representing western multinational corporations in telecommunications, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, food processing, transportation, oil and gas and agrochemicals. Ms. Johnson has been a featured speaker at major international conferences related to Ukraine. She is the author of numerous published articles.
Oksana Khanas
Board Member and Treasurer of Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America
Oksana Khanas is the Treasurer of Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America. Ms. Khanas graduated from the National UniversityLvivska Politechnika with a master degree in Computer Science. During 2002-2008 she graduated Accounting and Tax Preparation, Desktop Publishing and E-Commerce in USA. Ms. Khanas is Co-Founder and President of Publishing Company “Papuga” in Ukraine. In U.S. Ms. Khanas worked as Editor of Ukrainian newspaper “Time and Events”, established addition to the newspaper “Crossroads Youth”. Ms. Khanas is Co-Founder and Treasurer of Software Development Company Mimograph, Inc. Ms. Khanas has expertise in project management and marketing, financial planning and accounting and information technology. Ms. Khanas is financial manager of the Electronic Library of Ukraine project.
Anna Mostovych
Board Member and Corporate Secretary of Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America
Anna Mostovych is a marketing consultant specializing in global branding and marketing communications. She held various marketing positions with HSBC, Harris Bank and Trust and several manufacturing companies. She is Co-Founder and President of the Chicago Business and Professional Group, an educational and professional association dedicated to serious analysis and discussion of matters related to Ukraine and the post-Soviet region. The association has sponsored two international conferences on the Chornobyl disaster, as well as numerous seminars and panels on business, societal and political issues in Ukraine and the world. Dr. Mostovych holds a Ph.D. in French Literature and European Studies from Indiana University. She is co-author, with George Liber, of “Nonconformity and Dissent in the Ukrainian SSR, 1955-1975: An Annotated Bibliography”, published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1978
Michael Radnor
Michael Radnor, Ph.D., is senior professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University and Director of the University’s National Science Foundation Center for Technology and Innovation Management (CTIM). He is also Chairman and Co-Founder of Global Advanced Technology Innovation Consortium. CTIM has led the Commercialization and Management of New Converging Technologies program internationally. Dr. Radnor is on editorial boards of several international innovation management journals. He holds a Ph.D. from the Northwestern University, a Diploma in Business Administration from the London School of Economics and a DIC in Production Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University. Dr. Radnor has conducted programs with the Executive MBA program of the Kyiv-Mohyla School of Business since the first years of its establishment and has been involved in work with various projects and universities in Ukraine since the country’s independence.
Ihor I. Wyslotsky
Ihor Wyslotsky served as president of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation from 2002 until 2005 and currently serves on the Board. Mr. Wyslotsky is an engineer, who was founder and president of Redex Packaging Corporation, a firm in technology development. He was awarded more than 50 patents related to electronics, mechanical engineering, polymer chemistry and product design. With Jaroslawa Zelinsky Johnson he was co-founder of the America Ukraine Business Council in 1991. He was also co-founder and former president of the Ukrainian Studies Committee at University of Illinois, and served as a member of the Working Committee for Ukraine at the Center of Strategic International Studies (CSIS). He is currently involved in technology transfer in the energy area. Mr. Wyslotsky was an early supporter of the re-establishment of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 1991 and has devoted himself to strengthening the university’s future.
Board of Advisors
Jaroslav Rozumnyj
Jaroslav Rozumnyj, formerly senior scholar with the department of German and Slavic studies at the University of Manitoba, is a distinguished scholar, widely known in Canada and abroad. Dr. Rozumnyj is recognized for his contributions to the field of Slavic studies, as well as his work on behalf of the Ukrainian community. Author of numerous articles and books, editor, respected faculty member and lecturer, he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr. Rozumnyj was the founder of the first group of supporters of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the university’s representative in Canada, and a key participant in the re-establishment of the Academy in 1991.
Yuri M. Shcherbak
Yuri Shcherbak, served as Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, Canada and Israel. Dr. Shcherbak is a writer and physician who came to international prominence with his exposé on Chornobyl, and as founder of the Ukrainian Green Party and Ukraine's first minister of environmental protection. Internationally recognized as one of Ukraine’s foremost specialists on geo-political strategic issues, he is the author of numerous studies, articles and books on Chornobyl, ecology, public health, NATO and Ukraine’s relations with Russia, the European Union and the United States. Through the years he has been internationally sought as a political analyst and commentator by all media outlets, conferences and seminars, and is a respected diplomat in the international arena.
Yaroslav Duzyj (In Memoriam)
Yaroslav Duzyj was one of the most active supporters of the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy from its inception in 1991. He devoted all his energies to support the university’s establishment, expansion and autonomy. He funded numerous academic seminars and conferences. Together with his late wife Olha, he donated his entire book collection to the Kyiv Mohyla Library, currently preserved in the Archive Library as the Yaroslav and Olha Duzyj Collection. After immigrating to the United States from Ukraine he established a company in technology and became a successful businessman. In the 1990’s he established another firm in equipment of radiation control. He used his economic success to support the establishment of democracy in Ukraine, particularly through education, and to improve his local community in the Detroit area. He has been honored with the Petro Mohyla Award from the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and with numerous official recognitions in the United States and Ukraine.
Marta T. Sterniuk
Marta Sterniuk is a business executive, owner of an import-export firm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Having emigrated from Ukraine, Ms. Sterniuk is a long-time resident of Argentina, where she has been a member of the Ukrainian community, with a leading role in matters related to human rights and international relations. She has a long record of support and activity in the annual International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, one of the top five book expos in the world, oriented to the literary community as well as to the general public, where she contributed to the presentation of books related to Ukraine, at meetings and conferences of editors, publishers, translators, booksellers, educators and librarians. The Fair included the hosting and presentation of leading Ukrainian writers and poets in the largest such event in the Spanish speaking world, with the organization of media coverage.