Ministry of Economy of Ukraine

Mariia Zakharenko

Director

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Mariia has 10 years of experience in the public sector. For almost 5 years, she worked as an assistant to a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, focusing on economic projects. During this time, Maria participated in the development and advocacy of numerous reforms, including the privatization of state and communal property, antimonopoly legislation reform, legislation on LLCs. Following this, she joined the team of the state-owned company "Prozorro.Sales," where she was involved in managing and advocating projects related to the efficient distribution of public assets. Among her achievements are her participation in reform concerning the lease of state and communal property, the land reform, and the property management reform of state joint-stock companies.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. 

Maria joined the team in July 2024. 

Oleksandr Penkov

Expert (Lawyer)

SOE reform (stream:Increasing of Investments)

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Oleksandr has 16 years of experience as an attorney at law. The leading areas of competencies are legal support of medium and large businesses, beneficial owners and top management, as well as various legal assistance to local authorities.

Oleksandr is an expert in the fields of commercial, tax and customs law, primarily as a litigation lawyer. The budget, public procurements, legal land relations, intellectual property, foreign economic activity, as well as the anti-corruption sphere are among the professional competencies of the attorney at law. He has experience in legislative practice as a lawyer.

Oleksandr joined the Reform Support Team in February 2024 in order to participate in the implementation of the Corporate Governance Reform of SOEs.

Motto: My opinion obliges me.

Serhii Maidanevych

Senior project manager

Public investment management  (stream:Increasing of Investments)

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Master's degree from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University in Applied Physics/Radiophysics and from Kyiv National Economic University in International Economics. Completed the "Management of International Business" (Bournemouth Business School International) training program at Bournemouth Business School International, participated in several other international programs and trainings. 

He has experience of working on the SIDA, EEN, and Vintage Web Production projects. Participated in the launching of the first Ukrainian online charity Planet of Support exchange platform, worked on the creation of the local social network and on other outsourcing projects for foreign markets, implemented dozens of projects in the field of web production and communications for corporate clients, in particular, Biogena, JTI, Design Hotels, Maxxium, Pyrex, Pernod Ricard, P&G, SUN InBev, Symbiopharm and others.

Joined the Reform Support Team in 2021. 

Motto: "Everything you can imagine is real." – Pablo Picasso.

Stanislav Brus

       Senior Expert

Public investment management  (stream:Increasing of Investments)

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He has joined the Team in 2018. His main responsibilities in the Team were analytical and organizational support for deregulation initiatives. He participated in the drawing up of the improvement plan for the Ukraine's Doing Business rating, organization of the deregulation meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and the construction of a system of effective interactions with the business associations. After 2020, he was involved in the development of solutions related to the enterprises support during the COVID-19 pandemic, the reforming of the intellectual property system, the development of models of the business interaction with the organizations engaged in the research and development works, and also participated in the development of solutions in the field of industrial policy and support of certain economy sectors. 

Stanislav received a bachelor's degree from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy majoring in Political Science. He later completed a master's program in public policy and governance at the Kyiv School of Economics.

Viktoriia Ivasyk 

Senior Project Manager

Human capital (stream: Ukraine Facility Plan Monitoring)

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Joined the team in 2023, where she works on developing legislation on screening foreign investments in the security and defense sector, clarifies mechanisms for employee protection, and provides other legal support. 

Previously, she coordinated analytics and advocacy at the NGO "Legal Hundred," co-authored 10 laws on the protection of veterans' and military rights, and conducted the first analysis of the veterans' social protection system in Ukraine.

In 2018, she worked as an expert at the NATO Office in Ukraine, developing a "problem tree" for veterans and organizing training for Ministry of Veterans Affairs officials on legislation, policy formation, and client-oriented approaches. 

Provided legal support to the Project Office for the establishment of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine. In 2023, she completed the Sustainable Public Management Program at the Swedish Institute (SAYP) and the Ukrainian Catholic University's course on "Management in Times of Tectonic Changes." In 2019, she participated in the Open World Program of the US Congress. In 2016, she completed the Advocacy School at CEDEM and Drafting Legislation Courses at the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Graduated with honors from the National University "Odessa Law Academy" with a master's degree in law.

Motto: All great revolutionaries are lawyers. Therefore, it is the best education to fight. (Levko Lukyanenko).

Yuliia Shaipova

Senior Project Manager

Monitoring and Control Processing  (stream: Ukraine Facility Plan Monitoring)

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Yuliia is a public policy professional focusing on EU integration with over 7 years of experience. She joined the RST in August 2024 to assist in coordination and monitoring of implementation of Ukraine Plan within the Ukraine Facility. 

Yuliia worked with all three branches of government, interning at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Parliament), and the High Council of Justice. She has also extensive experience working in the non-governmental sector and with Ukraine’s international development partners. Her areas of expertise are foreign affairs and EU integration. She has participated in educational visits to Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Switzerland, and the UAE, and in civil society advocacy visits to Hungary, Serbia, and Australia. 

Yuliia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Odesa Law Academy and a Master’s degree in Law from Kyiv Mohyla Academy. She has also completed a Master’s degree program in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford. She is fluent in English and German, she possesses basic knowledge of French as well. 

Anastasiia Filatova

Project Manager/Data Analyst (stream: Ukraine Facility Plan Monitoring)

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She received a bachelor's degree in international economics Kyiv National University of Economics and a master's degree in economic analysis at the Kyiv School of Economics.

During her student years, she organized many educational social projects in various youth organizations, TEDxKNEU and was a licensee of TEDxKSE.

He has 5 years of experience as an economic analyst in the public sector (think tank CEDOS, Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine )  and commercial sector ( NJSC “Naftogaz of Ukraine”)

Anastasia joined the team in August 2024 to work on the implementation of the Ukraine Facility program to strengthen the analytical function of the project.

Vladyslav Kantsyr

Senior project Manager

Labour market (stream: Business environment)

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He received a bachelor's degree in International Economic Relations from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and a Master's of Public Administration (MPA) at the UCU School of Public Management. Currently, he is a scholar of the Swedish Institute Global Professionals Program, under which he received a master's degree in International Administration and Global Governance (IAGG) at Gothenburg University.

Licensee of 2 TEDx conferences in Lviv (2015, 2017). In 2016, he was a pro bono ProZorro advisor working on a project of the sample specifications creation. Since 2017, he worked on developing the Ukrenergo’s international cooperation, in particular, on integration of the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) into the network. He took part and successfully established the new Ukrenergo ties with more than 10 TSO companies in Europe and Asia. Vladyslav took part in more than 10 international programs and internships in different countries and universities, specifically, in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Latvia, and Poland.

Motto: Keep fighting – you are sure to win!

Oleg Tsymerynov

Senior project manager

Increasing the complexity of the economy  (stream: Business environment)

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Graduated with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering at the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.

Has scientific developments in metallurgy, management of enterprises for the production of building materials, metallurgy and mechanical engineering. He managed projects for the construction of a cement plant, a sinter plant, the reconstruction of metallurgical and cement plants.

In November 2023,  joined the RST team as part of the "Made in Ukraine" project.
Main area of work: preparation of a strategy for the development of the building materials industry.

Dmytro Romanov 

Senior Project Manager

Increasing the complexity of the economy  (stream: Business environment)

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Dmytro has over 20 years of experience in business management in the Industrial and Agri-Food segments. He has expertise in the development and implementation of sustainable development strategies in production enterprises and building export sales channels.

He actively participates in development projects of the Ukrainian processing industry in the field of food processing by FAO, EBRD, and USAID. He influences the development of the national policy of the food processing industry through systemic cooperation with the real business sector, associations of Ukrainian manufacturers, state institutions, and international organizations.

Dmytro is a participant, speaker and co-organizer of specialized conferences, seminars, and trainings (including international ones) on improving the potential of the food processing industry.

He joined the Reform Support Team in February 2024 to modernize the industry structure and integrate leading contemporary practices.

 Motto: History is written by the victors (Winston Churchill).

Iryna Murodshoeva

Senior project manager 

Public administration reform (stream: Sustainability of the Ministry)

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Received a higher education in "HR Management and Labor Economics" at the Kyiv National Economic University. In 2017, she graduated from the Strategic HR Management course at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

Iryna has more than 12 years of the HR management experience in the investment, legal and production spheres. Out of them, she has devoted 4 years for reforming the public service and for implementing the modern HR practices, 5 years – for the management activities, in particular, project management for the implementation of HR processes for an enterprise employing 5,000 workers in Ukraine and abroad. Also, she has experience in consulting on recruitment and evaluation issues for international companies.

In December 2018, Iryna joined the team working on the "High efficiency departments of the Ministry of Economy" project. The main areas of work: implementation of the performance management system, training managers in management skills, transformation of the organizational culture, teaching the best practices of HR management in the public service.

Motto: Be helpful and productive where you are now.

Oleksandra Stasevich

Expert 

Public administration reform (stream: Sustainability of the Ministry)

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She received a bachelor's degree at the Institute of Management and Finance at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, majoring in foreign economic activity management. She also has a master's degree in organizational management from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

She has eight years of experience in organizing charitable, social and private events. She worked in an international financial company for more than 2 years.

Joined the Reform Support Team in May 2022. She deals with internal communications and organizational issues. In May 2023 Oleksandra was promoted to the position of  Expert Communications. Leads the direction of educational  events and programs for SMEs.

Motto: Planning is the first step to success.

Oksana Chaban

Expert

Public administration reform (stream: Sustainability of the Ministry)

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Oksana joined the Reform Support Team in 2020. The main areas of work within the framework of public administration reform are: HRMIS system implementation, leadership skills development and capacity building of civil servants, support in the implementation of modern HR practices and increasing the organizational capacity of state institutions. 

Oksana has eight years of experience as an HR expert, Head of Recruitment and Business Development. In 2019, Oksana was a co-founder and partner of company that provides financial recruitment and accounting outsourcing services.

Oksana received a Master's degree in Finance from Kyiv National Economic University. She received a scholarship at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD, Switzerland) under the Leadership Strategy program. To improve the efficiency of public administration reform implementation, she received a scholarship and completed a training in Good Governance at the UCU School of Public Administration.

Motto: Be the change you want to see in people.

Olena Rybnytska

Senior Project Manager 

Communication with Stakeholders and Public Engagement

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Olena holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Kyiv International University and a Master's degree in Telecommunications Technologies and Systems from Vinnytsia National Technical University.

Olena has 12 years of experience in media, having worked with well-known organizations such as the STB TV-channel, and nearly 8 years of experience in building and managing production teams (Lightfield Production, Kyiv, PIXEO Studio, Kyiv-Berlin).

She also has relevant experience working with international partners of Ukraine, including her involvement in promoting the Emergency Credit Program for Ukraine's Reconstruction (ECPUR) in 2016-17. On a voluntary basis, she collaborates with the Women's Veteran Movement "Veteranka."

Maryna Lapytska

Expert Communications

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Maryna joined the RST in May 2023. The main task is to communicate complex reforms and changes implemented by the RST together with the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.

Has more than 10 years of experience in communications. In particular, in the Kyiv City State Administration and the State Architectural and Building Inspection. She also worked in newspapers, on television and in online publications. 

Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, she has covered the situation in the occupied south of Ukraine. At the same time, she wrote for the grant project "My Home" that tells the stories of people whose homes were destroyed by the war on social networks.

Maryna studied at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Institute of Journalism.

In 2022, she completed the course "Entrepreneurship and organization of one's own business" at the Faculty of Economics of the Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University. She learned photojournalism from the photographers of the publication "Paris Match".

Motto: Our dream is our work, which we must do well no matter what.

Anna Titova

Senior project manager

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She graduated with honors from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University with a Master of Law degree. She has a scientific degree of the Doctor of Philosophy in Law.

Anna has more than 12 years of legal practice on the financial market and in the field of e-commerce. As a representative of a number of the largest online businesses, she is a co-author of the Law of Ukraine "On Electronic Commerce" which was adopted in 2015.

Anna joined the Reform Support Team in 2018. She was engaged in the implementation of reforms in the sphere of Ukrainian business climate improvement. She provided legal support for the development and adoption of normative legal acts in the field of deregulation and for boosting Ukraine's Doing Business rating. She also took an active part in reforming the vessels’ environmental control process in the ports of Ukraine. As a result, a number of Resolutions were adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers ensuring a transparent procedure for conducting such inspections. 

Currently, Anna is the Senior Project Manager and coordinates the operational projects unit.

She has published a number of papers in the national scientific periodicals on the legal online settlement issues and the agreements in the field of electronic commerce.

Liubomyr Muzhyk

Senior Lawyer

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Liubomyr has more than 10 years of professional legal experience, during 8 of which he worked as a lawyer. He worked in leading Ukrainian law companies and predominantly practiced civil and commercial law. He represented a number of clients in courts during disputes arising due to legal issues related to credit and leasing arrangements. In addition, he has considerable experience in protecting the integrity of business, as well as in closing agreements on the alienation of corporate rights and real estate.

He joined the RST team in 2020 to implement SOE reforms as applied to the state owned enterprises.

Kateryna Durkalo

Expert

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Kateryna graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a Master's degree in mathematics

She has six years of experience as an analyst in international and Ukrainian companies. Formed and analyzed large data bases, automated existing processes, which helped colleagues in further work with information.

Joined the Reform Support Team in October 2023.

Motto: It always seems impossible until it's done.

Viktoriia Troshyna

Administrative Assistant

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Viktoriia received her Bachelor's degree with honors from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in the field of "Public Administration" and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in the "Post-Conflict Governance" program.

She has experience in administrative work, report preparation, and supporting HR processes within an organization.

She joined the Reform Support Team in late October 2024.

Motto: Everything has its time.

Andrii Sheveliev

Expert 

Donor Coordination

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Andrii has over 15 years of experience in economic development, with a focus on access to finance, export enabling, agri-food industry and private sector engagement. He has designed and implemented large-scale projects and provided consulting services for various international development programs. His recent roles include Investment and Private Sector Engagement Lead at the USAID Economic Resilience Activity and Development Expert at USAID Financial Sector Transformation Activity. Additionally, he has experience in collaboration with international financial institutions and government agencies. Andrii was responsible for the Export Booster program initiated by RST ME on a donor side (USAID ERA).

Andrii holds an MBA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is fluent in English and Ukrainian, speaks  some Spanish.

Andrii joined the Reform Support Team in November 2024 to assist in donor coordination.