Anastasia Piliavsky

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

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.

Sir Christopher Clark

Historian of Europe, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, author of Iron Kingdom and The Sleepwalkers. Knighted in 2015 for his services to Anglo-German relations. He is also a popular TV presenter, known for documentaries such as Deutschland Saga, Planet of Treasures and The Story of Europe. He lives in Cambridge.

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.

Mikhail Reva

Ukrainian artist, sculptor and architect, Honored Artist of Ukraine, author of several public statues in Odessa and across Ukraine. He lives in 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, when not on the front.

Boris Barsky

Comedian, director of the Maski Theatre and the House of Clowns, Honoured Artist of Ukraine. He lives in Odessa.

Edmund de Waal

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

Andriy Valchuk

Architect and serviceman in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He lives in Odessa, when not on the front.

Ugo Poletti

Entrepreneur, founder and Chief Editor of The Odessa Journal, regular contributor to the Kyiv Post, co-founder of Ukraine Project Hub, President of Rotary Club Odessa International. He 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. Author of The Political Thought of John Locke and Setting the People Free. He lives in Cambridge.

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.

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.

Yurii Dikyi

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

Mykhailo Dubynianskyi

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

Vitaly Oplachko

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

Antonina Poletti

Director of The Odessa Journal. She lives in Odessa.

Vladislav Vodko

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

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.

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.

Patrick Wack

Photographer, who has worked in China and around the Black Sea, publishing in the world's top broadsheets, from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times. He is author of photography books Dust and Azov Horizons. He lives in Paris.

Inna Holubovych

Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at the Odesa Mechnikov 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.

Oleg Suslov

Chief Editor of Odessa's oldest daily, The Evening Odesa. He lives in Odessa.

Roman Morgenstern

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

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 I.I.Mechnikov National University. She lives in Odessa.

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.

Ekaterina Mikheitseva

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

Pavlo Maiboroda

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

Peter Culshaw

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

Greta Grape

Journalist JADU at the Goethe-Institut, Co-founder & CEO в On The Raft / Sur Le Radeau. She lives in Paris.

Cyrill Lipatov

Art historian, anthropologist and curator. He lives in Odessa & Berlin.

Valentin Piliavsky

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

Anna Misyuk

Historian of Odessa. She lives in Israel and Odessa.

Olexandra Valchuk

Graphic artist. She 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.

Olga Kozorovytska

Lawyer and civil society activist. She lives in Odessa.