Dr. Hanna Shelest is Senior Researcher at National Institute for Strategic Studies (Odessa Branch) and head of Board of "Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation" NGO. Hanna is a Rotary Peace Fellow 2010, Black Sea Young Reformers Fellow 2011, John Smith Fellow 2012 and Women in Public Service Project Fellow 2013. She has been recognized as "40 under 40" Ukrainian Emerging leader in 2013 by the US-Ukraine Foundation. She has more than 40 academic and more than 80 media publications on security and cooperation in the Wider Black Sea and Middle East regions.