Yuliya Tychkivska

Executive Director of Aspen Institute Kyiv since 2017, Yuliya Tychkivska leads programs focused on value-based leadership, dialogue, trust-building, and civil society in Ukraine. She previously served as vice president at Kyiv School of Economics, headed an advisory group to Ukraine’s minister of economic development and trade, founded the Open University of Maidan, and co-founded the Bendukidze Free Market Centre.

Trust Is Built Through Repeated Practice, Not Civic Sentiment

At Dan Porterfield’s final Aspen Ideas Festival as president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, leaders of Weave, Aspen Kyiv and the Institute’s network strategy made a shared case that trust is not a civic sentiment but a capacity built through repeated practice. Frederick Riley argued that local trust must be rebuilt neighbor by neighbor; Yuliya Tychkivska described dialogue and leadership formation under wartime exhaustion in Ukraine; and Tommy Loper said Aspen’s dispersed alumni and programs need stronger connective tissue to turn relationships into usable institutional strength.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202619 min read