Iryna Drobovych is co-founder of the Foundation 'The Day After', the Ukrainian nonprofit promoting women's leadership and meaningful participation in the processes of strengthening national unity and preparing to build just and sustainable peace following the war in Ukraine. In 2023-2024, Iryna was the Humphrey Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA) and at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she expanded her expertise as a strategist on gender policy and women's meaningful participation in post-war recovery, reconciliation and peacebuilding processes. She is a fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar. Iryna is National Consultant on women's leadership, political participation and inclusive recovery at the UN Women Ukraine. Previously, she served as a CEO and Strategy Director at the Ukrainian Women's Congress (2019-2023), as a Government Relations Advisor with the Kyiv Security Forum and Open Ukraine Foundation (2016-2019) and as an Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016). Iryna holds a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in International Strategies and Security from the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (2010). She also graduated the Good Governance program at the Ukrainian Catholic University (2021) and the Sustainable Public Management program at the Swedish Institute (2019). She is a Fellow of Salzburg Global.