User:Владислав Долбілов/Heorhii Tykhyi

Heorhii Tykhyi (Ukrainian: Георгій Сергійович Тихий; born June 7, 1989, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian journalist, Communications Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2020 - 2024), and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (since July 15, 2024).

Biography
Born on June 7, 1989 in the city of Kyiv. Studied at Kyiv Lyceum №38 named after Molchanov.

In 2006, he entered the Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2010, he received a bachelor's degree, and in 2012, a master's degree in political science.

From 2012 to 2015, he was a postgraduate student at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His research interests included the metaphorics of political discourse, cognitive linguistics, and the memory policies in Ukraine.

Professional activity
Since 2008, he has worked in the media: as an editor and reporter on Savik Shuster's programs (2008-2013), as a freelance producer of the first German TV channel ARD in Ukraine (2014-2018), and as a correspondent for the National News Agency Ukrinform (2018-2019).

In 2014, he covered the events of the Revolution of Dignity and the beginning of Russian aggression in the east of Ukraine for German television. In August 2014, together with his colleague Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey, he was surrounded in Ilovaisk, where he made a documentary about the heroic Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the besieged city.

In 2018, he established the Ukrinform bureau in New York, USA. In 2019, he began working in government communications: as press secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration (October 2019-March 2020), and later as a communications adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba (March 2020-July 2024).

As an advisor to the Minister, he is responsible for organizing public communications of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, including preparation of speeches, theses for public speeches, video messages and posts on social networks.

As part of the Ministry's team, he participated in the presentation of the MFA's Communication Strategy “Ukraine - Latin America and the Caribbean”.

He conducted trainings on effective government communications for government officials as part of the educational activities of the Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Since 2022, he has been a member of the ministry's team responsible for communication strategies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine's “wartime diplomacy.”

In July 2024, he was appointed Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.