Experience: Director, Centre for Defence Strategies (since 2024);Fellow, Centre for Defence Strategies (2021-24). Advisor, Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2020);Director for Multilateral Diplomacy, Maidan of Foreign Affairs think tank (2014-19);Deputy Director-General for Foreign Affairs, Office of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (2008-11);State expert, Office of the NSDC of Ukraine (2006-08);Diplomat, Department of the Americas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2000-2002, 2005-2006);Second secretary, Embassy of Ukraine in Canada (2002-2005). Education: Mr Khara is an alumnus of the Royal College of Defence Studies (London, the U.K.), and holds graduate of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (M.A.) and the Donetsk State Academy of Management (B.A.).