Our Team

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Executive Director

 Isaac Robinson has been managing humanitarian programs amidst complex emergencies across numerous countries and territories in Europe, Africa, and Asia for the last 24 years, including 9 years in Ukraine. He is well-known in the Ukrainian humanitarian community for his innovative initiatives in the areas of legal analysis, HLP and livelihoods advocacy, local self-government programming, and the digitalization of humanitarian services.

Isaac Robinson holds a BA (Honours, School of Jurisprudence) from the University of Oxford, and an LL.M. in Human Rights from Columbia University, New York. He is a barrister-at-law in the UK.

Expert on comprehensive financial and business solutions for private and public entities.

Yurii brings more than 4 years of experience at the National Bank of Ukraine with concentration in international trade in financial services. 

Yurii holds an MBA degree from IESE Business School and two additional masters degrees - International Public Law and International Economic Relations - from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Expert in marketing, communications and project development

Daria focuses on legal marketing, PR & Project Development. She has over 7 years of expertise working in the Ukrainian legal market. Daria also focuses on the development of Sustainability projects in Ukraine.

Education:

• UN Global Compact, "Business & Human Rights Accelerator", January 2024 - pending
• Kyiv National Economic University, Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, 2017.
• Ireland Digital Marketing Institute, Certificate in Digital Marketing, 2019.

Her recent experience includes working with International Organisations in Ukraine: UNHCR, Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Global Communities and USAID/ENGAGE. 

Daria is also a head of Marketing Department at a leading Ukrainian law firm EVERLEGAL.

Legal expert

Oleksandr has more than 10 years of professional legal experience in Commercial Law with a special focus on HLP and Banking. He is also a legal expert in Tax, Dispute Resolution (Litigation & Arbitration), and Human Rights.

Education:

• Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Master of Laws, 2010.

Recent experience includes advising:

• Danish Refugee Council (DRC) within its Ukrainian project “Digital Legal Aid Platform”. 
• Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on various issues of its activity in Ukraine, such as real estate, banking & finance and commercial matters. 
•  USAID / ENGAGE on implementation of the All-Ukrainian  educational project on conducting 12 practical legal trainings (online & offline) for CSOs, SMEs & Ukrainian citizens.
• NGO “MetaLab” in a “CO-HATY” project (supported by USAID), on collaboration with Ukrainian regional state bodies and provision of recommendations re same, on the structure of NGO projects to provide housing for IDPs.

Legal expert

Svitlana is a specialist in Employment & Commercial Matters, Agriculture and Land Law, Dispute Resolution. She has more than 8 years of professional experience advising leading Ukrainian and International companies and organisations (including NGOs).

Education:

• National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Specialist`s Degree in Law (with distinction), 2015.

Recent experience includes advising:

• Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on various issues of its activity in Ukraine, such as employment & commercial matters.
• Danish Refugee Council (DRC) within its Ukrainian project “Digital Legal Aid Platform”.
• USAID / ENGAGE on implementation of the All-Ukrainian  educational project on conducting 12 practical legal trainings (online & offline) for CSOs, SMEs & Ukrainian citizens.
• Global Communities on various issues of its activity in Ukraine, such as employment & commercial matters.
• UNHCR, on various issues of its activity in Ukraine, such as employment matters.