Iryna Drobovych

Iryna Drobovych is a civil society leader in Ukraine and advocate for gender equality and democracy. She is co-founder of the Foundation ‘The Day After’, the Ukrainian nonprofit promoting women’s leadership and meaningful participation in the processes of social cohesion, strengthening national unity and preparing Ukraine to building just and sustainable peace. In 2023-2024, Iryna was the Humphrey Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA) and Visiting Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.). Previously, she served as a CEO and Strategy Director at the national nonprofit 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). Since 2022, she has also been a fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar.