Anna Nikolaienko is an expert on women’s participation in security and peacebuilding. She served as Advisor on Women’s Political Participation and Advocacy at the Ukrainian Women’s Congress (2018–2024) and as a consultant to the Equal Opportunities Caucus in the Parliament of Ukraine (2016–2018).
She holds a law degree from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. In 2021–2022, she was a Lane Kirkland Scholar at the University of Wroclaw, where she completed her research on on women’s participation in the security sector and defended thesis ‘Women's Participation in Peacebuilding and Security Processes: Implementation of NATO gender standards by Poland’.
Anna also participated in the OSCE-UNODA Scholarship for Peace and Security (2022) and the Future Leaders Forum at the Rīga Conference (2023), programs focused on developing young professionals in international relations, defense, and security.
List of publications:
Ukrainian Women’s Congress & U-LEAD with Europe Programme. Study on Key Factors and Preconditions Encouraging Ukrainian Migrants to Return to Ukraine and Contribute to Reconstruction at the Local Level. June 2023 – October 2023. (Co-author / Researcher)
Merger and acquisition: the disadvantages of legislation. – Topical problems of legal science and practice: theses of the scientific reports of the participants of the 2nd Ukrainian theoretical and practical conference. – 6-7 December 2012. - National University “Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine”, Kharkiv. – 2012.– 285-287 p. – III place.
Unauthorized construction - problems of the current civil law. – Students legal reading: abstracts of scientific papers and reports of scientific conference. National University «Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine».- Kharkiv: 2011. – 116-119 p. – II place.
Genocide, Criminal Trials, and Reconciliation. – p. 437-442 // Anthropology of law: philosophical and legal aspects (current position, issues and perspectives): articles of participants of the international round table (Lvіv, 3-5 December 2010). - «Lvіv: Galician publisher, 2010», 699 p.