Anastasia Piliavsky

political anthropologist and columnist, Reader in Anthropology and Politics at King’s College London, Odesa & Cambridge

Ilya Kaminsky

poet, essayist and author of Dancing in Odessa, Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Literature at Princeton University, Princeton USA

Maya Dimerli

writer, literary translator and Head of the ‘Odesa UNESCO City of Literature’ programme, Odesa

Alexey Botvinov

Ukrainian pianist, Honored Artist of Ukraine and founder of the Odessa Classics Festival, Odesa & Zurich

Eugene Demenok

writer, art historian and Ambassador of Odesa in Prague, Odesa and Prague

Vitaly Oplachko

explorer, photographer and founder of the Odesa Free University Lectorium, Odesa

Eva Neymann

Ukrainian filmmaker, director of the film "Privoz", "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea", Berlin

Kateryna Biletina

award-winning artist, portraitist of Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, Odesa

Ugo Poletti

founder of The Odessa Journal and President of Rotary Club Odesa International, Odesa

Thomas de Waal

author and analyst, descendant of the Ephrussi family, London

Vladislav Vodko

historian of Ukraine and lecturer in history at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, Odesa

Yurii Dikiy

Ukrainian pianist, Professor Emeritus at the Odesa National Academy of Music, and Head of the Oistrakh and Richter Mission, Odesa

Edmund de Waal

artist, potter and author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes, descendant of the Ephrussi family, London

Antonina Poletti

Editor of The Odessa Journal, Odesa

Mykhailo Dubynianskyi

Ukrainian publicist, Kyiv

Cyrill Lipatov

art historian and curator at the Lviv Museums of Fine Art, Odesa & Lviv

Inna Holubovych

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Fundamental Humanitarian Knowledge at I.I. Mechnikov Odesa National University, Odesa

Taras Fedirko

anthropologist of Ukraine, Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Edinburgh

Illia Chedoluma

historian, Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research of Lviv National University, the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv

Pavlo Maiboroda

history teacher and founder of the “Pidpillya” free space, Odesa

Mikhail Reva

artist, architect & Honored Artist of Ukraine, Odesa

Valentin Piliavsky

architect, historian of Odesa and author of The Architects of Odessa, Boston USA

Oleg Suslov

Chief Editor of The Evening Odesa, Odesa

Anna Misiyk

historian of the cultural history of Odesa at the Odesa Literary Museum, Odesa

Roman Morgenstern

corresponding member of the Transport Academy of Ukraine, Odesa

Regina Maryanovska Davidzon

filmmaker, award winning producer, co-founder of The Odessa Review, and of Real Pictures, Odesa & Paris

Borys Tynka

historian, writer, Honorary Ambassador of Odesa in Poland, member of the Ukrainian Guides Association, Krakow & Odesa

Kateryna Bezpalova

philologist, interpreter and Associate Professor at the Odesa National University, Odesa

Heorhii Kasianov

historian of Ukraine, head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, former head of the Department of Modern History and Politics at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv; Lublin, Poland

Mikhail Son

doctor of Biological Sciences, Institute of Marine Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odesa

Sergiy Polyakov

photographer and curator of the gallery “Okno,” Odesa