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HE Mr Vasyl Myroshnychenko
Ambassador of Ukraine to AustraliaHE Mr Vasyl Myroshnychenko took office as Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia on 1 April 2022. He was an advisor to the Minister of Defence of Ukraine in March and April 2022. Between May 2021 and July 2022, he served as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Institute, the cultural diplomacy unit of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2006 to 2022, he was a partner at CFC Big Ideas, a Kyiv-based strategic communications company advising clients on corporate communications, public affairs and reputation management.
He is co-founder of the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre, a media NGO set up in 2014 aimed at amplifying Ukraine’s voice internationally, where he was in charge of numerous projects and campaigns during 2014-2019. In 2015 and 2016, he headed the Board of the Professional Government Association, an NGO which has united Ukrainian alumni of Western universities to mobilise talent for economic, legal and judicial reforms in Ukraine.
He holds an MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and MA and BA degrees in international relations from the Institute of International Relations, Kyiv National Shevchenko University.