Kateryna RYZHENKO

Deputy Executive Director for Legal Affairs

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Kateryna Ryzhenko is the Deputy Executive Director on Legal Affairs at Transparency International Ukraine. She joined the team in 2016, and since 2019 has been heading the Legal department. Kateryna is an expert with more than 7-year experience in anti-corruption policy development and advocacy and is author of a great number of analytical briefs and legal analyses on anti-corruption. Among her areas of expertise are criminal justice and confiscation of illicitly obtained assets.

Kateryna is a Head of the Secretariat for the first External Assessment Commission of the Performance of the National Corruption Prevention Agency (NACP). In 2019-2021, Kateryna was a Co-head of the Selection Committee for the NACP, and, in 2017-2019, the member of the Civil Oversight Council at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). Kateryna has a master’s degree from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv and LL.M from the University of Oslo.

Author`s posts:

November 18, 2024

Our Expectations from Second Competition to HACC

A year has already passed since the launch of the competition for 25 positions of HACC judges, and judges have not yet been elected, and that’s not even the middle of the selection.

September 16, 2024

Shadow Report: Public Assessment of Anti-Corruption and European Integration

Recently, the coalition of civil society organizations, including TI Ukraine, presented a Shadow Report on the state of affairs in Ukraine. What is behind this title?

July 30, 2024

First Steps of New NACP Head Viktor Pavlushchyk: What Were They?

What did Viktor Pavlushchyk manage to do during his five months in office? Can these steps be considered successful? Let's try to figure it out.