Supervisory Board

Natalie is a leader in EY-Parthenon’s Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy practice, overseeing sovereign advisory efforts and complex public sector turnarounds. Natalie is a proven executive with a distinguished 30-year career leading large-scale government transformations that restructure debt and marshal limited resources to prioritize essential services and strengthen budgetary practices, financial reporting and transparency. As Executive Director of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board from 2017 to 2023, Natalie oversaw critical reforms and the largest debt restructuring in US municipal bond market history. Further, as Ukraine’s Minister of Finance from 2014-16, Natalie successfully restructured Ukraine’s sovereign debt and negotiated its wide-ranging IMF program. Natalie is a CPA with a MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a BS in Accounting from DePaul University. Two presidents of Ukraine presented awards to Natalie for her distinguished service. Natalie serves on multiple not-for-profit boards, including as Chairperson of Aspen Institute Kyiv.

Elliot Gerson is an executive vice president at the Aspen Institute, responsible for its Policy Programs, its Public Programs and its relations with its international partners. The Institute’s more than 30 Policy Programs focus on both domestic and international issues. They provide neutral venues, do nonpartisan analysis, foster candid dialogue among leaders, advocate new policy and promote best practices. The Institute’s public programs – including the Aspen Ideas Festival and many smaller programs across the country and world – open the Institute’s doors to a broader audience and further both its educational goals and its hopes that thought will lead to action. The Institute has international partners in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Romania, Spain, and Ukraine. Gerson also administers the US Rhodes Scholarships. He was a Rhodes Scholar, a US Supreme Court clerk, practiced law in government and privately, held executive positions in state and federal government and on a presidential campaign, and was president of start-ups in health care and education, and of two leading national insurance and health-care companies. He has served on many non-profit boards, especially in the arts.

Anatole Klepatskyi is an investment banking and biotech expert currently serving as Chief Business Officer and Board Member at Orion Biotechnology, a Canadian Life Science company founded in 2017 which is involved in development of innovative products in the field of immunology and metabolic disorders. Anatole was born in Ukraine where he started his professional career in 1994 with Credit Commercial de France (CCF) working on the implementation of the mass privatization program and various M&A transactions. Since 2000, over 35 transactions with a total value in excess of $1.7 billion were successfully completed under his leadership. Anatole Klepatskyi is a CEO and founding partner of Altius Impact Partners, a Canadian venture capital and advisory firm with focus on biotechnology and life sciences.

Kateryna Zagoriy is a Ukrainian philanthropy influencer, philanthropist, investor, media and communications expert. Kateryna has expertise in business both as a business owner and as a hired specialist, as well as in civil service and public policy. Has higher education in sociology. Currently, her main activity is focused on the development of own projects and family business. Co-founder of the private family charitable organization Zagoriy Foundation, which has a mission to develop a culture of giving in Ukraine. Key activities of the foundation include the development of the culture of giving and philanthropy, charitable sector research, support of cultural initiatives and educational institutions. An initiator of the #GivingTuesday global charity movement in Ukraine. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Tabletochky Charitable Foundation and a member of the Senate of the Ukrainian Catholic University. A graduate of Aspen Institute Kyiv in 2008.

President of Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Gennadiy Chyzhykov was born on February 19, 1964 in Donetsk. Studied at the Donetsk Institute of Trade from 1981 to 1985 at the trade and economic faculty. After completing military service, he worked as an economist in the Trade Organization Department of the Donestk company «Mebli», and from 1987 – at the Donetsk Institute of Trade, where he held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor of the Faculty of Enterprise Economy. In 1992 he defended his Master’s thesis, in some time – a Doctorate with specialty in Foreign Economic Activity. He has over 80 published scientific and nonfiction articles. He completed fellowships at the Bradford School of Business, University College Cork (Ireland), Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce (USA). Gennadiy Chyzhykov has contributed to the development of the Chamber movement in Ukraine for over 20 years. From June, 2002 to February, 2014 he was President of the Donetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry. From Februa y, 2013 Gennadiy Chyzhykov has held the position of President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. On May 19, 2015 he was re-elected as President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In this period, the following have been created and founded at the UCCI - a network of Export Support Centers, the National Export Forum, bilateral Business Councils with partners from 30 countries. A number of agreements on cooperation were concluded with partner organizations.

Mr. Rogol has a beckgraund in finance and has worked concurrently in banking and in higher education for over 20 years. From 1994 to 2007, he held senior positions at both Ukrainian and Latvian banks, including serving as Chairperson of the Board of the Riga Port Universalais Terminals (Latvia) for 10 years. Mr. Rogol is also the co-owner of ESTET Group (Kyiv), the author of more than 20 scientific papers and textbooks and has been President of TOP Club, an organization for Ukrainian business leaders, since 200. He is an active member of the Aspen community and has been a Trustee of the Aspen Institute Kyiv since 2016.

Founder & CEO of Highgate. Thomas is an Aspen Institute alumnus and led the creation of an Aspen Institute in both Ukraine and the UK. He is a political and business strategist who over the past two decades has advised dozens of CEOs, political leaders, prominent individuals worldwide on their strategy, reputation, dispute resolution, communications, ESG and crisis management. He began career as a French civil servant working in the French Prime Minister’s office in Paris and later served as senior political adviser to the Bulgarian Prime Minister in Sofia and to the Georgian President in Tbilisi. Before setting up Highgate, Thomas served for two years as Managing Director at Mercury, a US high-stake public strategy firm, and six years as Executing Director at APCO Worldwide, where he successfully created and led the agency’s global geopolitical, reputation and litigation practice out of London. Thomas has a longstanding passion for environment, ESG and philanthropy. He majored in environmental science, worked for the French Ministry of Environment and established the position of the French Government for the creation of the first international Emissions Trading System (ETS). As a student in Paris, he was the National Secretary of the Action Sociale Etudiante, a student NGO. In 2006, he designed and created the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, the then largest philanthropic foundation in Eastern Europe, and became its President. He graduated from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the Corps des Mines.

Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist, CEO and co-owner of TIS, the leading seaport on the Black Sea. Founder of Superhumans - Ukraine’s largest war trauma center. Andrey Stavnitser is the CEO of TIS, a family-owned port and logistics group, since 2011. Over more than 30 years, TIS has grown into Ukraine’s No.1 port by turnover and the largest private investors in Ukrainian infrastructure, with total investments exceeding USD 1.5 billion. One of Andrey Stavnitser’s flagship investment projects is Neptune, a state-of-the-art grain export terminal launched in 2019 in partnership with Cargill Сorporation and financed by the EBRD and IFC. In August 2022, Andrey launched Superhumans Center, a national, non-profit medical project focused on advanced prosthetics, reconstructive surgery, PTSD treatment, and rehabilitation for victims of war. The first Superhumans Center opened in Lviv in 2023, followed by a second facility in Dnipro in 2025, and an Odesa center launching 2026. Superhumans operates in partnership with leading global medical experts and international donors. The Howard G. Buffett Foundation is its largest partner. Since the first days of operation, Superhumans Center has been backed by Richard Branson, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, José Andrés. The First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, and the Ukrainian Minister of Health serve on the project’s board. Since 2014, Andrey Stavnitser has been serving as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria in the Odesa region. He is a member of the Board of the Aspen Institute Kyiv and the Ukrainian National Jewish Congress. Andrey was educated in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Ukraine, and is a graduate of the Stanford University GSB Executive Program.

A native Londoner, Andy was a TV presenter on a leading Ukrainian television channel. He headed the Public Relations department at Ukrainian Mobile Communications (now Vodafone Ukraine) and subsequently was External Affairs and Communications Director at GlaxoSmithKline with responsibility for Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Hunder was the director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, regularly delivering analysis and comment on Ukrainian current affairs on BBC, CNN, SKY, Bloomberg TV, ITV, Al Jazeera, and others. He has spoken on Ukrainian affairs at the UK Houses of Parliament, House of Lords, Oxford University, London School of Economics, and University College London. From 2016 till 2020, Andy Hunder served as Treasurer of AmChams in Europe, the umbrella organization of 49 AmChams across 47 countries throughout Europe and Eurasia. AmChams in Europe represents the interest of more than 17,000 American and European companies in Europe, with more than 20 million jobs on both sides of the Atlantic and $1.1 trillion in investments. Andy serves on the Supervisory Board of Ukraine’s Business Ombudsman Council, Ukraine Invest, and Ukrainian Catholic University. Andy Hunder is "Responsible Leadership" — 25 seminar alumni since 2023.