Andriy Zagorodnyuk served as minister of defense of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020. He was head of the Ministry of Defense’s Reforms Project Office from 2015 to 2018. In July 2019, prior to serving as minister, Zagorodnyuk was appointed advisor to the president of Ukraine for defense matters, as well as a member of the supervisory council of Ukraine’s Ukroboronprom defense company. He serves as co-founder and chairman of the security think tank Centre for Defence Strategies and is a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.
