Oleg Tuliakov - PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Center for Promoting Regional Development of Sumy State University, Chairman of the Board of the NPO "Foundation for Regional Studies", media manager of the Sumy Channel project, author and host of programs
The author and manager of projects on the problems connected with sustainable socio-economic development of communities, direct democracy, reproduction of historical memory with the support of local budgets, the International Foundation "Renaissance", the Foundation "Memory, Responsibility and Future" (Germany). Author and teacher of courses on critical thinking within civic education projects. Participant of scientific research on issues of socio-economic development of communities and methods on teaching courses on the basics of critical thinking in the formats of civic education.

Scientific interests: philosophy, problems of organizing critical/effective/thinking, factors of exponential development, direct democracy.

Sportsman, multiple champion of the Sumy region, prize-winner of the championships of Ukraine in powerlifting.