Vasyl Filipchuk

Vasyl Filipchuk (Ukrainian: Василь Філіпчук; born October 22, 1971, in the village of Kyseliv, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian diplomat, politician, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Spokesperson (2005–2006) and Director of the Department for European Integration of the Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers (2012–2013).

Since 2014, Vasyl Filipchuk has served as a senior advisor of the International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS), one of Ukraine's leading think tanks.

As a student at Chernivtsi National University (1988–1993), in 1989 he edited «Smoloskyp», a publication of the Ukrainian Youth Association of Bukovina, one of the first independent magazines in Ukraine.

In 2012—2014 he studied as a postgraduate student at the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine (Department of European Integration).

Since 2014, Filipchuk has served as a senior advisor of the International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS), one of Ukraine's leading think tanks.

Under his leadership, the ICPS organized dozens of conferences, round tables, and other events, focusing on the issues of international security, European integration, as well as domestic and foreign affairs.

In 2020, he joined the July 16 Initiative, which aims to promote an inclusive nationwide dialogue on determining Ukraine's future.

Filipchuk expanded the audience through video production by starting an "Apostrophe TV" channel, that began satellite broadcasting on June 1, 2020.