Biography

Since 2023, Analyst of the public initiative “Holka”:

  • Anti-corruption expertise
  • Urban planning reform
  • Protection of cultural heritage
  • Specifics of local self-government

Since 2012, Expert in urban planning.

During this time, it was possible to:

  • Become a leading analyst with anti-corruption expertise at “Dzerkalo Tyzhnia” and collaborate with the editorial offices of “Nashi Hroshi,” “Glavkom,” “Livyi Bereh,” and other media outlets.
  • Participate in a nationwide advocacy campaign to block the urban planning “reform” 5655, later criticized by the European Parliament and the European Commission; provide the government with an analysis of the provisions of this legislative initiative regarding its harmful impact on cultural heritage. Also, conduct an anti-corruption analysis of draft law 9664, related to construction on water and coastal areas.
  • Conduct anti-corruption expertise of draft laws and Cabinet of Ministers resolutions and strategic analysis of corruption risks in urban planning for the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (including through the USAID Support to Anti-Corruption Champion Institutions (SACCI) Program in Ukraine) in 2021-2022.
  • Participate in the development of the Concept of Public Administration in Urban Planning with the support of GIZ (responsible for anti-corruption expertise and mutual agreement of expert proposals in 2018).

From 2017 to 2019 Lecturer at the Institute for Regional Press Development and “Nashi Hroshi.”

During this time:

  • develop an original course on the specifics of conducting research in urban planning and land management

Since 1996, Engineer, Senior Researcher at the G.V. Kurdyumov Institute of Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Education

  • 2001, Master, Applied Physics

    National Technical University of Ukraine (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), Physics and Technology Faculty.

  • 2010, Solid State Physics

    G.V. Kurdyumov Institute of Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Team

Author of the project “Reasonable Doubt”

Natalia Kokina

  • Compiling Profiles

Content Manager

Artem Lymanskyi

  • Compiling Profiles

Content Manager

Natalia Sokolenko

  • History of Ukraine
  • Judicial Reform

Сo-author of the “My Dear Kyiv” project

Serhii Kostianchuk

  • History of Kyiv

Сo-author of the “My Dear Kyiv” project

Vasyl Zhuk

  • Development of websites and web tools

Web Developer, Backend Architect

Lesia Liuba

  • Financial management
  • Accounting in NGO

Accountant

Kateryna Pokotylo

  • Translation, editing of texts
  • Language coaching

Language Mentor

Valeriia Sokotiuk

  • Brand promotion in social networks
  • Development of smm strategy

SMM-manager

Yurii Melnyk

Expertise:

  • Judicial reform
  • Defamation
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Analyst

Olena Sokotiuk

Expertise

  • Project Management
  • Grant Writing
  • Local Self-Government

Executive Director

Margaryta Sytnyk

Expertise:

  • Communication strategies
  • Media partnership
  • Migration
  • Labor market abroad

Head of International Cooperation Projects

Iryna Fedoriv

Expertise:

  • Urban planning reform
  • Decentralization reform
  • Electoral reform
  • Specifics of local self-government bodies' work

Leader of “Holka” (“The Needle”)