Ihor Poshyvailo (Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Director General of the National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution of Dignity Museum (Maidan Museum). He is a cultural activist, ethnologist, museologist, cultural manager and art curator. Ihor is ex-chairman of the Museum Council at the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the ICOM International Committee on Disaster Resilient Museums. He holds PhD in History, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution; an international fellow at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center; a participant, lecturer and mentor of the First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis training courses of ICCROM in the Netherlands, US and Italy. When the full-scale Russian invasion started in February 2022 Ihor became initiator, co-founder and coordinator of the Heritage Emergency Response Initiative (HERI) and a member of the National Council for the Recovery of Ukraine from the War.