Oksana Nechyporenko is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. She also leads several civil society initiatives in Ukraine and has a background in domestic and international politics. She is the co-founder and head of the board of the GoGlobal NGO (the largest educational volunteer initiative in Ukraine), co-founder of the Masha Fund, and an advisor to the minister of education of Ukraine.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Nechyporenko established the Crisis Coordination Center in Warsaw, supported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to help Ukrainians who fled to Poland and manage humanitarian aid for Ukraine. It has facilitated approximately 30 percent of the aid delivered to Ukraine since February 2022. At GoGlobal NGO, Nechyporenko helps lead the organization, which has to date expanded to engage 160,000 children and 3,000 teachers to promote English-language learning and support youth from recently de-occupied areas of Ukraine. At the Masha Fund, Nechyporenko helps lead programs in women’s psychological rehabilitation and economic empowerment following Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Prior to the onset of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Nechyporenko served as chief of staff and head of the advisory group to the prime minister of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020. She also served as the head of the supervisory board of UkraineInvest (a leading agency that works on attracting investments to Ukraine) from 2019 to 2020. Additionally, Nechyporenko led a team that launched the subsidiary of the Edinburgh Business School in Eastern Europe from 2009 to 2014. She was also one of the founders of and head of the Secretariat of the Reanimation Package of Reforms, one of the largest civic platforms in Ukraine after the Euromaidan Revolution, uniting seventy civil society organizations and think tanks to promote reforms through legal change. She holds a master’s degree in political science from the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and certificates from Stanford University and Edinburgh Business School. She has been rated among the one hundred most successful women in Ukraine by the Novoe Vremya magazine and was the recipient of the Sestry award for Polish cooperation and volunteer work.