Since December 2010, she has been working at the Permanent Secretariat of the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution (Bucharest Convention), an international intergovernmental organization based in Istanbul, Turkey. In April 2014, she was appointed as Pollution Monitoring and Assessment (PMA) Officer. Before moving to Turkey, she worked as a diplomat at the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union in Brussels, where she was responsible for EU–Ukraine cooperation in the fields of environment, transport, space, research, and education. Earlier in her career, she served as Deputy Head of Office to the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European Integration and as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Energy Law from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Leuven (Kingdom of Belgium). She also obtained certificates in Water Law (University of Dundee, Scotland), Environmental Diplomacy (University of Geneva, Switzerland), and Regional Economics (University of Genoa, Italy). Since April 2018, she has been a member of the Pool of Experts for the United Nations Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects.
