Head of the Fund of the President of Ukraine for Support of Education, Science and Sports. Doctor of Economics and Professor at the Department of International Economic Relations, Sumy State University. Head of the European Union Information Centre in Sumy Region, Chair of the Board of the NGO ‘Lifelong Learning Centre’ and Deputy Chair of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Adult Education. Research interests: European integration, lifelong learning, migration, international communications and transformative learning.