Head of the Civil Service of Ukraine meets with Ukrainian Muskie Fellows in Washington

Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship (Muskie) Program participants from Ukraine met with a delegation of Ukrainian officials visiting Washington during the middle of June as part of the US-Ukraine Foundation’s Project to Assist Ukraine’s Civil Service Reform.

Ukrainian Muskie fellows met with Tymofiy Motrenko, the head of the Civil Service of Ukraine; Andriy Vyshnevsky, director of the Center for Support of Civil Service Institutional Development under the Main Department of Civil Service of Ukraine; Oleksandr Pavlichenko, second secretary of the Ukrainian Embassy to the United States; and Nadia McConnell, the US-Ukraine Foundation President. 

During the working lunch meeting at the US-Ukraine Foundation’s office, Motrenko spoke about the Ukrainian government’s efforts to reform the civil service system in order to improve the quality of public service and increase its efficiency and transparency. In particular, the participants discussed the prospects of having alumni of the Muskie Program enter the civil service upon their return to Ukraine. The hosts, as well as Ukrainian guests, praised the Muskie Program and its valuable contribution to the democratic development of Ukraine by training young professionals in a number of important fields.

Photo: Ukrainian Muskie Fellows with Amb. Pifer, current deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Amb. Shamshur, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States