COSMOPOLIS | Team

OUR TEAM

We are scholars, soldiers, writers, journalists, artists and others committed to civic and intellectual freedoms. Based in Odessa, wider Ukraine and beyond, we do not always agree, but we are united in a conviction that free societies are sustained by the ability to live with profound differences, especially in times of war. Not all our members are listed on this page because some work is best done out of sight.

Anastasia Piliavsky

Founder & Head

Anthropologist & political analyst, King's College London

Maya Dimerli

Co-Founder, Programmes, Production & Literary Curator

Writer, Translator & Head of Odesa UNESCO City of Literature

Ilya Kaminsky

Co-Founder

Poet & Essayist, Princeton University

Boris Barsky

Member

Actor, director & poet, The Maski Show

Mikhail Reva

Founding Member

Sculptor & Architect, Reva Foundation

Sir Christopher Clark

Member

Historian, University of Cambridge

Dame Caroline Humphrey

Member

Anthropologist & Historian, University of Cambridge

Thomas de Waal

Member

Journalist & Analyst, Carnegie Endowment

Alexey Botvinov

Member

Pianist, Odessa Classics

John Dunn

Member

Political Philosopher, University of Cambridge

Georgiy Kasianov

Member

Historian, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University

Gennady Druzenko

Member

Lawyer & SoldierUAF & Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital

Yurii Dikyi

Member

Pianist, Head of Oistrakh & Richter Mission

Alexander Onishchenko

Member

Actor, director & soldier, UAF & Theatre on Chainaya

Illia Chedoluma

Member

Historian, Editor & Public Intellectual

Eugene Demenok

Founding Member

Writer & art historian

Ulrich Schreiber

Member

Cultural manager, Bebelplatz

Eva Neymann

Member

Filmmaker, Cosmopolis

Oleg Suslov

Founding Member

Chief Editor, The Evening Odesa

Kateryna Biletina

Founding Member

Painter

Ugo Poletti

Co-Founder

Journalist and Chief Editor of The Odessa Journal

Ekaterina Chalaya

Member

Cultural organiser

Alexander Morrison

Member

Historian, University of Oxford

Alyona Synenko

Member

Writer, journalist & humanitarian

Serge Poliakov

Member

Photographer & curator of Okno Gallery

Antonina Poletti

Co-Founder, Webmaster & Treasurer

Editor of The Odessa Journal

Vladislav Vodko

Founding Member

Historian, Odesa Pedagogical University

Georgiy Khubian

Communications & Editorial, Kvartirnik & Debate Curator

Artist & psychologist

Donat Etienne

Member

Entrepreneur and Cultural Collaborator

Patrick Wack

Member

Photographer, Inland Collective

Inna Holubovych

Founding Member

Philosopher, Odesa Mechnikov University

Peter Culshaw

Member

Composer & music writer

Vitaly Oplachko

Founding Member

Explorer & entrepreneur

Borys Tynka

Member

Writer & tour guide

Mikhail Son

Member

Poets & biologist, National Academy of Sciences

Kateryna Mikheitseva

Events Producer

Philosopher, Odesa International University

Cyrill Lipatov

Member

Curator & art historian

Olga Engibarova

Member

Photographer

Benjamin Zachariah

Member

Historian at the Einstein Forum

Greta Grape

Development & Operations Coordinator

Journalist & Producer, Sur Le Radeau

Valentin Piliavsky

Member

Architect & historian

Alexandra Valchuk

Member

Artist

Roman Morgenstern

Member

Entrepreneur, Vice-President of UkrFerry

Kateryna Bezpalova

Member

Philologist, Odesa Mechnikov University

Anna Misyuk

Member

Historian

Olga Yarovaya

Member

Artist

Olga Kozorovytska

Member

Lawyer

Pavlo Maiboroda

Founding Member

Historian, Founder or Pidpillya

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Ukrainian Cosmopolis operates in Ukraine under the NGO “Odesa Vilnyi Universytet” (“Odesa Free University”) (Registration No. 38227510), and internationally through Ukrainian Cosmopolis Ltd (Company No. 16901636), a UK non-profit company limited by guarantee. All funds support the cultural and civic programmes of Ukrainian Cosmopolis in Ukraine.
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