Hanna Shelest

PhD, is a Security Studies Program Director, Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” and Editor-in-chief at UA: Ukraine Analytica. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA, USA). Prior to this, she had served for more than 10 years as a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2014, Dr. Shelest was a Visiting Research Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Previously she had experience in strategic communications and consultancy on security matters for government and business, as well as teaching at Odesa National University, Ukrainian Catholic University, Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, Swedish Defence University, etc. Dr Shelest led among others projects of the Scorecards of the Ukrainian Foreign Policy (2015-2022. Dr. Shelest was an adviser to the Working Groups on Ukrainian Navy Strategy 2035 and Strategy of the Foreign Policy of Ukraine