Multilingual legal and policy expert on the European Union and Eastern Europe with experience in the fields of Competition Law, Business Subsidy Law, Public Procurement Law, the Rule of Law, good governance, and public administration Director and team leader with experience supervising and coaching a team of junior experts on policy research and analysis Published Author and lecturer on an array of topics including presentations made to all the ministries of Ukraine.

Yana has over 15 years of professional experience in AML, due diligence, operational intelligence, regulatory compliance, legal drafting, OSINT, HUMINT, and COMINT; and speaks six languages. She speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, and French. Yana has started her career as a lawyer in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine; she was a legal trainee at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium; and worked as a contractor for a number of European Union funded projects improving legislation of Ukraine.

From 2017 to 2022, Yana worked at several research institutes in Washington, DC on national security and criminal justice. Most recently, she was an Associate Director at Exiger Diligence where she successfully led the US team of researchers, conducted training, and worked on research excellence and operations improvement initiatives. She is currently a senior advisor at TrustStorm Solutions Inc.