Oleksii Antoniuk

Oleksii Antoniuk is a Yale ‘24 alum. After graduating summa cum laude with a degree in Economics this May, he came back home to Ukraine. Oleksii is currently working in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, where he leads the Strategic Institute for Unmanned Systems (SIUS). As the head of SIUS, he manages the collection and analysis of tactical battlefield data and attempts to predict the battlefield role of unmanned systems in the medium term in order to out-innovate the enemy. Oleksii is also training to become an artillery officer in the Ukrainian military.

At Yale, Oleksii led the Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS), a national security student organization dedicated to promoting the US's active role on the world stage and building a platform for rigorous foreign policy discourse on campus. During his education in the US, he spent multiple summers in Washington, DC, working with the Institute for the Study of War, the US Congress, and the International Republican Institute.

Bio recorded September 6, 2024