Iuliia Zaichenko
Senior Project Manager
Public Administration Reform
Iuliia has over a decade of extensive experience in project management within the public administration and development sector, possess change and crisis management skills acquired through leading complex transformation projects in optimizing organizational structures and procedures. Iuliia has a proven track record in negotiating international macro-financial assistance programs, in the sphere of EU integration, professional experience in strategy development, planning, analytical work advanced through her work in international organizations, consultancy, and high-ranking positions in public administration. After the outbreak of russia's full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine, Iuliia jointly with the RDO team, was engaged in coordination and drafting of two chapters of the Ukraine Recovery Plan, presented at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Lugano (2022). In 2022 she made a significant contribution to the completion of the EU questionnaire.
In 2023, Iuliia led the preparation and coordination of stakeholders on behalf of the Reforms Delivery Office at the annual Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in Berlin. From 2023, she was involved in analytical support on particular spheres of the development of the Plan, needed for the launch of the EU Ukraine Facility programme. She is also providing analytical support to the Ukraine Donor Platform in monitoring particular tasks implementation.
Before joining RDO team, from 2019 she has been working at the position of a Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Reform Office with the key responsibilities on the complex’s reform of legislative process and parliamentary oversight practices development of the EU-UNDP Parliamentary reform project team. From 2017 till 2019 she worked as a Director General for the Strategic Planning and European Integration Directorate at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine where was leading donors’ coordination, budget planning, strategic planning, reforms monitoring, coordination of cooperation with EU on Justice, freedom and security sphere. Since 2015 she has been working with the key justice reforms coordination and analytics. Also worked as an analyst and consultant with reforms support for the EDGE project in Ukraine.
Iuliia has a Master of Law degree. In 2013 she got LL.M. degree in International and European Business Law from Jean-Moulin University Lyon 3, France. Also did studies and training courses in Austria, Greece, Latvia, the Netherlands mainly with the focus on EU law, good governance, human rights.