Our Board
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Sean Kennedy, Chairman
A social and energy entrepreneur, Sean began his career as a field geologist before entering government service in 1993 as an aide and advisor to the US Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration. Since 2000, Sean has run a successful energy development company focused on building large-scale solar projects across the United States. He has had a series of successful companies specializing in renewable energy in the United States and Eastern Europe. His involvement with Ukraine began when Sean travel to Kyiv in 2000 to oversee President Bill Clinton’s historic address to 200,000 in Ukraine.
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Jim Loftus, President
Jim has worked in government, politics and international relations for 30 years. He served in the Middle East as an American Diplomat, a White House staff member in the Clinton Administration and as a senior aide to the Secretary of State during the Obama Administration. He lived and worked in Eastern Europe for nearly a decade, running a successful political consulting firm and wrote and directed the feature film Trade Routes, set and filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria. He first travelled to Ukraine in 1997 as an aide and advisor to the First Lady Hillary Clinton.
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Greg Starr, Treasurer
Greg ended his 30-year career in public service as the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security. He is the only American to have held the top security position at the United Nations, having served as Under-Secretary General from 2009 to 2013. He retired as a Senior Member of the Foreign Service in 2017, having served as regional security in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.