6pm - 8pm
Thursday 25 April 2024
The War in Ukraine: Two Years On
Join us for an essential dialogue on navigating the complexities of rebuilding and strengthening Ukraine.
Free
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH
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About the event
This event delves into the critical economic and military strategies shaping Ukraine's future two years after the beginning of the large-scale invasion.
Esteemed experts across both fields unite to provide an insightful overview of challenges and opportunities ahead, offering a roadmap for resilience and recovery.
Panel
Speaker
Marianna Fakhurdinova
New Europe Center
Speaker
Dr Alex Leveringhaus
University of Surrey
Biography
I joined Surrey in January 2018 from the University of Manchester, where I was a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Centre for Political Theory. Prior to working at Manchester, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford, as well as a James Martin Fellow in the Oxford Martin School. I received my PhD in Government from LSE, where I worked under the supervision of Cecile Fabre and Paul Kelly.
At Surrey, I am the co-director, with Nick Kitchen, of the Centre for International Intervention. I am also a coordinator for the Special Interest Group for Ethics and Artificial Intelligence at the University, and an affiliate at the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy (SCLP).
Speaker
Dr Michael Richter
University of Surrey
Biography
Michael Martin Richter (PhD) joined the University of Surrey within the Horizon Europe REDEMOS project on EU democracy promotion abroad. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen as well as a Fellow at Harvard University, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and the Foreign Investors Council in Latvia (FICIL). He received his PhD in the Political Economy field from the University of Bremen for his thesis titled ‘Power, Politics, and Anti-Corruption Reforms in Ukraine: The Role of Western Actors’. Additionally, he obtained master’s degrees from the College of Europe, the Higher School of Economics, the University College London, as well as bachelor’s degrees from the ESB Business School and the Jagiellonian University. His research focuses on democracy promotion in the post-Soviet space and his works have been published, among others, in Global Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Politics and Governance, Vox Ukraine, and New Eastern Europe. He is additionaly active in the NGO sector as Academic Adviser to the Coopernicus platform and as Member of the Advisory Board of the Our Future Foundation.
Contact us
Email: politics@surrey.ac.uk