Ukraine at war : perspectives and stakes
Segment 1 : thé war in Ukraine from a European perspective
Segment 2 : the war in Ukraine from a U.S. perspective
segment 3 : the security stakes : energy, agriculture, défense, governance , EU, NATO
Bio of Ambassador Shamshur
Oleg Shamshur, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine
Ambassador Shamshur graduated from T. Shevchenko Kyiv University, Department of International Relations and International Law in 1978. He has a Ph. D. in History and is an author of over 90 scientific publications.
In 1978 he started his professional career at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine where he worked at the Institutes of Social and Economic Problems of Foreign Countries and World Economy and International Relations, including in 1984-1989 as Director of Programs of ISCPFC. In 1992-1993 he was a visiting scholar at University College London. Since 1993 he has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, being posted at Geneva (counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Ukraine) and Brussels (deputy chief of Mission at the Ukrainian Embassy to the Benelux countries). He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2004-2005), being Ukrainian chief negotiator of the Ukraine-EU Action plan, and Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States (2005-2010) and France (2014-2020). Prior to his appointment as Ukraine’s Ambassador to France Oleh Shamshur was serving as a Senior Advisor to PBN Hill and Knowlton Strategies and non-resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and as a Senior Advisor to the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council. Following retirement from Ukrainian Foreign Service he has been working as a political and business consultant, being also non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council of the United States.
He also worked (1996-1998) as Deputy Head of the National committee for nationalities and migration of Ukraine and member of the presidential commission for citizenship of Ukraine.
Awarded the Order of merit of Ukraine.
