Iryna Ivankiv is a seasoned human rights and rule of law professional, scholar and researcher on human rights issues with more than a decade of experience advising on rule of law matters and human rights, co-ordinating nation-wide reforms in justice sector, project design and management, human rights monitoring, including in conflict-affected countries.

Currently Iryna works as a Project Coordinator for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights focusing on support for the human rights defenders in the OSCE region. Iryna is also a Senior Lecturer at National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, where she teaches Constitutional Law.

Iryna holds a Master degree in Law from the Yaroslav Mudry National Law University of Ukraine, and a LL.M. degree in Rule of Law for Development from the Loyola University Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Human Rights from National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. She is an author of a monograph “Rights of Humanity”.