Ph.D., Partner, Pragma Consulting Group

Alyona is one of the country’s strongest and most reputable advisors on industry-focused regulatory and policy research, policy and legislation development, and regulatory impact assessment, who advises multinational companies and major local businesses on building and executing corporate government relations and public affairs strategies across a full range of policy areas, particularly in agriculture, mining, and natural resources, retail, FMCG and transport.

Alyona has worked for nearly 10 years in the field of government relations, and previously more than 15 years in legal and management positions in the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, is currently Chairperson of GR Committee under the Ukrainian Bar Association (from 2022 to the present). Having broad experience in work from both the government and business sides, she can transform effectively the client’s request into a message that can be delivered to the stakeholder and implemented into public policy.

She also has almost five years of experience in supporting FAO/EBRD projects in the framework of partnership between the government and the private sector. For five years she taught courses “Legislative Technique” and “Organization of Working Groups” at the Institute of Law and Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Since 2022, she has been an expert of the APENA 2 project.

Alyona holds diplomas of an electromechanical engineer, a Master of Public Administration, and a lawyer. All diplomas with honours. She was also trained in a few educational programs, provided by GIZ, NDI, T.S. Asser Institute, Berkeley Law Executive Education. She is an author of numerous scientific publications on temporal characteristics of law and settlement of transitional relations, a co-author of the manual “The Legislative Technique”.

Alyona is an Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine, included in the TOP-100 lawyers of Ukraine according to the national rating “Client’s Choice: 100 Best Lawyers of Ukraine” in 2023; is the leader of the “GR in Ukraine and Regulatory Activities” practices in 2021, 2023 and “Energy and Natural Resources/Environmental Law” in 2023; recognized as a “Leader Woman of the Legal Market” according to the rating “Ukrainian Women in Law 2023”.