BADRAK Valentin Vladimirovich
Member of the BoardFounder and director of the Analytical Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies. Writer, publicist, author of a number of publications in the field of defense. He graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne School and the Kyiv National Linguistic University. In 2000 he defended his dissertation «Factors of the effectiveness of the influence of print media (press) on the electorate».
Since 2006 – a member of the Public Council of the Security Service of Ukraine, since 2019 – a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Institute for Security Studies.
Employment: 1985 – 1995 – service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (before the Armed Forces of the USSR); 1995 – 1999 – columnist (until 1998), editor of the special issue «OPK» of the UNIAN news agency. Since 1999, he has been the director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies Married, has a daughter and a son.