George Tykhyi is communications advisor to Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, working on public communications of Ukraine’s top-diplomat in the times of war. George started his service in the Ukrainian government at the beginning of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s presidency in 2019. His prior experience had been 12 years with Ukrainian and international media, including as freelance producer, war-zone reporter for German television ARD and New York correspondent for Ukraine’s national news agency Ukrinform. George holds a masters degree in Political Science from Ukraine’s National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy where his primary research focus was cognitive linguistics of political discourse.