He previously served as Chief Adviser to President Gitanas Nausėda during his first term, overseeing the Environment and Infrastructure portfolio. Prior to that, he helped establish and implement the investment strategy for the Baltics’ first Infrastructure and Energy Investment Fund.

Mr. Niewierowicz was Lithuania’s Minister of Energy during the country’s 2013 Presidency of the EU Council, where he chaired the Energy Council. In this ministerial role, he led the legal unbundling of the Lithuanian gas sector and oversaw construction of the Klaipeda LNG FSRU terminal—breaking the gas supply monopoly in the Baltic States and providing a critical pillar for regional energy security. 

He also streamlined efforts and secured adequate financing for the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.From 2008 to 2012, as CEO of LitPol Link SPV, he  managed the development of electricity transmission system interconnection project between Lithuania and Poland.

Mr. Niewierowicz holds a master’s degree in International Political and Economic Relations from the Warsaw School of Economics and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Michael E. Kirst is currently the Managing Director of EuroAtlantic Partners. The Brussels-based consultancy leverages its long and deep transatlantic commercial and political experience to support particularly energy development, innovation and sustainability. Mr. Kirst is also currently the Senior Advisor to the US Department of Commerce Small Modular Reactor Public Private Program. In this role, Mr. Kirst is responsible for developing, planning and executing pan-Eurasian initiatives to facilitate the adoption of small and advanced nuclear reactors.

Prior, Mr. Kirst had several leadership roles at Westinghouse Electric Company. With regard to Ukraine, he led the VVER Fuel business that ultimately signed the first non-Russian nuclear fuel contract in 2008. Subsequently, as head of Central and Eastern Europe marketing and sales, he was responsible for diversifying all markets which relied on Russian fuel, technologies and engineering. He began as Director for Government and International Affairs based in Washington and finally as Vice President of Strategy and External Affairs for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Mr. Kirst began his professional career as a Legislative Aide to then-Congressman Leon E. Panetta, responsible for all issues relating to energy, commerce, transportation and telecommunications. He was subsequently appointed as the Director of the Economic Committee of the NATO Assembly in Brussels. In this role, he was responsible for directing the representatives of all NATO parliaments in assessing economic policy impacting alliance security considerations and eventually supporting the first wave of new NATO member countries after the end of the Cold War.

Mr. Kirst is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the US-Ukraine Business Council. Previously, Mr. Kirst was President, Nuclear Club of Brussels and a member of task forces at NuclearEurope.

Tymofii Mylovanov graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in management in 1997 and from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in economic theory in 1999.

In 2004, he earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).

During the Revolution of Dignity, he founded the VoxUkraine platform with like-minded leading economists from Ukraine and the world, which aims to raise the level of economic discussion in Ukraine.

Tymofii Mylovanov has long been a member of the Academic Supervisory Board of the Kyiv School of Economics.

On July 7, 2016, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine elected Tymofii Mylovanov to the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine. From October 2016 to August 2019, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Board.

In October 2016, the Board of Directors of the Kyiv School of Economics appointed Tymofii Mylovanov as Honorary President of the School.

From August 2019 to March 2020, Tymofii Mylovanov served as Ukraine's Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture.

In 2024, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed Tymofii Mylovanov to the Supervisory Board of Energoatom.

Vitalii Petruk graduated from the National Agrarian University with a degree in Finance and a qualification as a financial economist. He also studied at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School for a master's in Management and Administration.

He has 17 years of civil service experience. In the early 2000s, he was Assistant to the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

For two years, he held senior positions at the Energy Company of Ukraine.

From 2006 to 2010, he was the Head of the Department of Expertise and Analysis of Technogenic, Environmental, Nuclear Safety and Nature Management Development of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

For a year, he was the Head of the Service of the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. From 2011 to 2015, he held senior positions in the State Administration of Affairs. From 2015 to 2019, he headed the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management.

From 2020 to 2023, he served as Deputy Chairman for Economics of the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority” in Odesa.

In 2023, he was appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.

In 2024, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed Vitalii Petruk as a member of the Supervisory Board of Energoatom.