Zhanna Panchenko
Senior Communication Manager
Public Administration Reform
Expert in strategic communication and reputation management, PhD in political science. More than 10 years of professional experience in corporate and public communication.
Zhanna has provided communications support for the government's reform priorities, including public administration reform. She was responsible for the implementation of the communications campaign "New State Service. Become a Leader of Change" in 2017-2018, an advocacy campaign in support of the draft law on a new administrative procedure, etc.
She is responsible for communications support for the annual international Ukraine Recovery Conference (formerly Ukraine Reform Conference). She has been involved in the organisation of the URC in Copenhagen (Denmark), Toronto (Canada), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Lugano (Switzerland), London (the UK).
She participated in the development and implementation of strategic communication trainings for the State Employment Service of Ukraine and state authorities of the security and defence sector of Ukraine in the framework of cooperation with the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine. In 2016-2017, she was the Deputy Director of the Communication Centre of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She developed the courses "Government Communication Campaigns" and "Reputation Management in International Relations" at the Institute of International Relations.
She interned at the Government of Estonia Communications Office as part of the Humeria programme and at the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. She completed the OSCE Dialogue Tools and Facilitation Programme. She is a graduate of the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Graduated from King's College London, MA in Strategic Communication, Department of War Studies.