Taras Berezovets is a Ukrainian political analyst, founder of Free Сrimea project (2014), CEO of the Fund for National Strategies (2015), founder of Hybrid Warfare Resistance Bureau (2015), co-founder of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (2016) and external advisor to the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (2016–present). He is a native of the Crimean city of Kerch.