Kateryna Busol

Dr Kateryna Busol is a Ukrainian lawyer specialising in international human rights, humanitarian, criminal law, transitional justice, gender and cultural heritage protection. She holds an LLB, LLM and PhD from the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and an LLM from the University of Cambridge.

After a brief period of corporate work for KPMG and Clifford Chance and with the outbreak of armed conflicts in Ukraine, Kateryna resumed her practice in public international law. She consulted the Ukrainian side on the Scythian Gold case. In 2015-2019 Kateryna worked for Global Rights Compliance (GRC). Within GRC, she consulted Ukrainian state actors and NGOs on the best practices of investigating and prosecuting international crimes and on the cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Kateryna was a fellow at the Kennan Institute and a Visiting Professional at the ICC Office of the Prosecutor. She is a founder of the #InternationalLawTalks media rubric and the Vice-President of the Cambridge Society of Ukraine. At Chatham House, Kateryna researched the viable options for Ukraine’s transitional justice policy.