Andriy Zagorodnyuk
Chairman at the Centre for Defence Strategies
Andriy Zagorodnyuk is a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and a non-resident scholar in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Centre for Defence Strategies, a security think tank based in Kyiv focused on security studies, policy research, and advocacy. Mr Zagorodnyuk served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020. Prior to that appointment, he was an Adviser to the President of Ukraine for defence matters and as a member of the supervisory council of the state defence company Ukroboronprom. From 2015 to 2018, he headed the Reforms Project Office at the Ministry of Defence, where he played a key role as a major architect in designing Ukraine’s military reforms. With over 20 years of experience in heavy industry and industrial engineering, he founded and served as chairman of the board of Discovery Drilling Equipment from 2005 to 2019. He is currently a member of the supervisory council of Aerorozvidka, a leading Ukrainian NGO focused on unmanned systems, and a member of the International Leadership Council of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
Updated: April 14, 2026
