Svitlana Taran

Svitlana Taran has more than 10 years of experience in economic policy analysis and advice on Ukraine’s European integration, EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and DCFTA implementation, trade and competition related reforms in line with European and international standards. Particularly, she participated in several technical assistance projects on Ukraine’s WTO accession and integration to the EU, and regulatory approximation with EU acquis and WTO requirements, providing support to the Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Agricultural Policy, Ministry of Justice, Anti-monopoly Committee of Ukraine.

In 2016-2018, Svitlana worked as an Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. In 2018-2019, she completed the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program in Economic Development at Boston University. In 2019, she also worked as a Short-Term Consultant at the World Bank Group’s Global Trade and Regional Integration Unit in Washington, D.C. She has been working at the Trade+, International Trade Research Center at KSE since 2019. Svitlana Taran holds an MA in Economics from Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) /Kyiv School of Economics.