Andriy Zagorodnyuk
Chairman of Centre for Defence Strategies and Distinguished Fellow of Atlantic Council
Andriy Zagorodnyuk is a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. He served as minister of defence of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020 and now serves as co-founder and chairman of the security think tank Centre for Defence Strategies, which focuses on security studies, policy research, and advocacy in Ukraine. Prior to his appointment as minister of defence, Mr Zagorodnyuk served as head of the Ministry of Defence’s Reforms Project Office from 2015 to 2018. During this time, he was a key player and major architect of military reform in Ukraine. In July 2019, Mr Zagorodnyuk was appointed advisor to the president of Ukraine for defence matters, as well as a member of the supervisory council of Ukraine’s Ukroboronprom defence company. With over twenty years of experience in the field of heavy industry and industrial engineering, he served as founder and chairman of the board for Discovery Drilling Equipment (2005-19). Zagorodnyuk holds degrees from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in law and a post-graduate diploma with distinction in the specialty of financial strategy from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
Updated: April 28, 2023
