Pavlo Klimkin is a nonresident senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He served as the foreign minister of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.
Klimkin joined the Ukrainian foreign service in 1993 and worked on a variety of portfolios, including arms control, nuclear disarmament and safety, nonproliferation, energy security, and EU and NATO affairs. He served at Ukraine’s embassies in London and Berlin, including as ambassador to Germany from 2012 to 2014. Klimkin led Ukraine’s negotiating team for the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Prior to his diplomatic career, Klimkin worked as a researcher in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He holds degrees in physics and mathematics. Klimkin is a member of the boards of the Come Back Alive Foundation and the Renaissance Foundation. He speaks English and German in addition to his native Ukrainian.
The twentieth anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union comes at a moment of unique challenge and opportunity for the country, as Ukrainians look to their new leaders to resolve longstanding problems.
