ANASTASIA PILIAVSKY

Anthropologist & political analyst, Reader in Anthropology & Politics at King’s College London. Author of Nobody's People and Principal Investigator of European Council-funded project on India's Politics in Its Vernaculars. She lives in Cambridge & Odessa.

VLADISLAV VOD’KO

Historian, teacher and lecturer at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University. He lives in Alexandria & Odessa.

MAYA DIMERLI

Writer, literary translator, author of No Death to Dread, but Barmaley Instead, translator from Japanese of Natsume Sōseki’s Ten Nights of Dreams, Head of the Odesa UNESCO City of Literature programme. She lives in Odessa.

UGO POLETTI

Entrepreneur, founder and Chief Editor of The Odessa Journal, regular contributor to the Kyiv Post, co-founder of Ukraine Project Hub, Past President of Rotary Club Odessa International. He lives in Odessa.

ANTONINA POLETTI

Marketing specialist, Editor of The Odessa Journal. She lives in Odessa.

ILYA KAMINSKY

Poet, essayist, author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic, named by the BBC as one of "12 artists that changed the world." Professor of Literature at Princeton University, Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Princeton, NJ.

EUGENE DEMENOK

Writer, founder of the Green Lamp literary society in Odessa, art historian and collector, specialist in Ukrainian Avantgarde, and Ambassador of Odesa in Czech Republic. He lives in Prague.

THOMAS DE WAAL

Journalist, author and analyst, expert in the Caucuses, Odessa and post-Soviet conflicts, descendant of Odessa’s Ephrussi family. He lives in London.

VITALY OPLACHKO

Explorer, photographer, art collector and entrepreneur; founder of the Odessa Free University Lectorium. He lives in Odessa.

EVA NEYMANN

Filmmaker, director of numerous features and documentaries, including "Privoz" and "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea," about Odessa. She lives in Berlin & Odessa.

GENNADY DRUZENKO

A Ukrainian lawyer, civic activist, public intellectual, co-founder and president of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital named after Mykola Pyrohov, head of the Board of the Center for Constitutional Modeling. Veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian war, now back in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He lives in Kyiv and on the front.

SIR CHRISTOPHER CLARK

Historian of Europe, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, author of Iron Kingdom, The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring. knighted in 2015. He lives in Cambridge.

 KATERYNA BILETINA

Award-winning artist, portraitist, leader of Odessa’s neo-realist movement, lecturer at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University. She lives in Odessa.

YURII DIKIY

Pianist, Professor Emeritus at the Odesa National Academy of Music, Head of the Oistrakh and Richter Mission. He lives in Odessa.

ALEXEY BOTVINOV

Ukrainian pianist, Honored Artist of Ukraine and founder of the Odessa Classics Festival, He lives in Zurich & Odessa.

PATRICK WACK

Photographer, who has worked in China and around the Black Sea, author of photography books Dust and Azov Horizons. He lives in Paris.

EDMUND DE WAAL

Artist, potter and author of The Hare With the Amber Eyes, descendant of Odessa’s Ephrussi family. He lives in London.

MYKHAILO DUBYNIANSKYI

Ukrainian historian and political observer, who writes a regular column for the Ukrainian daily Ukrainska Pravda. He lives in Kyiv.

CYRILL LIPATOV

Art historian, anthropologist and curator at the Lviv Museum of Fine Art. He lives in Lviv & Odessa.

INNA HOLUBOVYCH

Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at the I.I. Mechnikov Odesa National University. She lives in Odessa.

TARAS FEDIRKO

Political and economic anthropologist of Ukraine, Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Senior Research Fellow at the IWM Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He lives in St Andrews & Vienna.

ILLIA CHEDOLUMA

Intellectual historian of Ukraine and public intellectual. He lives in Kyiv.

PAVLO MAIBORODA

Historian of antiquity and history teacher, founder of the “Underground” free space. He lives in Odessa.

MIKHAIL REVA

Ukrainian artist, sculptor and architect, Honored Artist of Ukraine. He lives in Odessa.

VALENTIN PILIAVSKY

Architect and Odessa's architectural historian, author of The Architects of Odessa. He lives in Boston, USA.

OLEG SUSLOV

Chief Editor of The Evening Odesa. He lives in Odessa.

ANNA MISYUK

Historian of Odessa. She lives in Israel and Odessa.

ROMAN MORGENSTERN

Corresponding member of the Transport Academy of Ukraine. He lives in Odessa.

REGINA MARYANOVSKA-DAVIDZON

Filmmaker, award-winning producer, co-founder of The Odessa Review, and of Real Pictures. She lives in Odessa & Paris.

BORYS TYNKA

Writer, historian, tour guide and lover of Odessa, Honorary Ambassador of Odesa in Poland, member of the Ukrainian Guides Association. He lives in Krakow & Odessa.

KATERYNA BEZPALOVA

Philologist, interpreter and Associate Professor at the Odesa National University. She lives in Odessa.

HEORHII KASIANOV

Historian of Ukraine, head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, former Head of the Department of Modern History and Politics at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. He lives in Lublin.

MIKHAIL SON

Poet and biologist, Fellow of the Institute of Marine Biology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He lives in Odessa.

SERGE POLIAKOV

Photographer and curator of the Okno Gallery. He lives in Odessa.

OLGA ENGIBAROVA

Photographer. She lives in Odessa.

BENJAMIN ZACHARIAH

Historian, pianist, Fellow of The Einstein Forum, author most recently of The Postcolonial Volk. He lives in Berlin.

MIKHAIL GOLUBEV

Ukrainian chess Grandmaster, journalist, author, chess coach and civil activist. He lives in Odessa.

EKATERINA MIKHEITSEVA

Philosopher, curator and Lecturer in Philosophy at the Odessa International Humanities University. She lives in Odessa.

JOHN DUNN

Political theorist, Professor Emeritus of Political Theory in Cambridge, scholar of John Locke and democracy, founder of the Cambridge School of political thought. He lives in Cambridge.

ALEXANDER MORRISON

Historian of colonial warfare, specialising in Russian imperial conquest, and Kazakhstan. Fellow and Tutor in History, New College Oxford. He lives in Oxford.

PETER CULSHAW

Composer and musical critic, who brought international attention to Ukraine's Dakha Brakha collective. Lover of Odessa. He lives in London.