Olena Yermakova

Olena Yermakova is the Head of Research at KI Insights. She is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She has held several prestigious research fellowships, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in a UCL-led international research consortium and a visiting fellowship at IWM Vienna. Beyond academia, Olena has experience in inclusive peacemaking in Donbas with the Geneva-based HD Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, in communications for a post-Maidan government, and has served two terms as a Board Member of the European Youth Parliament Ukraine. Olena holds degrees from the College of Europe and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.