Viktoriia Lapa is a nonresident fellow at the Center for Defense Strategies, an independent Ukrainian analytical organization that focuses on defense and security. Lapa is a lecturer at Bocconi University in Milan and an assistant professor at the Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro. She is also a guest lecturer at the University of Bologna and an affiliated scholar at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development in Bologna. Lapa received her Ph.D. in law from Bocconi University.