Khrystyna Kvartsiana

Khrystyna Kvartsiana is a Program Development Officer at ALDA - European Association for Local Democracy, where she designs international cooperation projects for the Eastern Partnership countries, co-chairs the Hub on Gender, Equality, and Human Rights, and delivers training. She is also a Rethink.CEE Fellow at the GMFUS, where she researches the main techniques of Russian cyberwarfare against Ukraine and what lessons of Ukraine's cyber resilience can be learned by the vulnerable countries of the region. Her academic interests lie in the critical approach to digital technologies and their potential for improving and threatening democracy. Khrystyna holds Master's degrees in Political Science with a focus on European Affairs and anti-corruption from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and in Sustainable Development offered by the Sorbonne University in Paris, KU Leuven, the University of Padua, and the University of Johannesburg.