Dmytro Kuleba

Dmytro Kuleba served as Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2024 and was one of the most effective and visible members of President Zelensky’s cabinet during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was the youngest foreign affairs minister in Ukraine’s history, and led his department through its most challenging times, playing a pivotal role in forging alliances, securing arms, imposing sanctions, advancing Ukraine’s bids for EU and NATO membership, and strengthening ties with Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Today, Kuleba lives in Ukraine and holds affiliations as a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard and as Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He is the author of The War for Reality: How to Win in the World of Fakes, Truths, and Communities (written in 2018, later translated into English), in which he delves into the realities of information warfare. In 2024, Kuleba curated War and New Horizons, a forward-looking collection of essays by several prominent thinkers, including Anne Applebaum, Ban Ki-moon, Condoleezza Rice, Nassim Taleb, and Samantha Power.