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Lesia Ogryzko

Board member of the RISE Ukraine , ECFR visiting fellow

Lesia Ogryzko is Board Member of the RISE Ukraine – the country’s biggest expert coallition on reconstruction, where she leads international cooperation. Lesia is also active as researcher of security matters: she is visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow at the Centre for Defence Strategies, a think tank in Kyiv.

Previously, Lesia served as international civil servant across the UN system dealing with human rights and coordination of UN agencies in Ukraine. She also worked in Ukraine’s Government, in the Reforms Delivery Office of the Cabinet of Ministers on the reforms implementation, including the public administration. In the past she co-founded several civic initiatives as well as Ukraine’s office of the humanitarian international NGO Save the Children. Prior to that she worked in the Spanish think-tank FRIDE researching international affairs. She is the author of numerous publications in international media on the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine’s reconstruction and the country’s civil society.