Kateryna Zarembo

Kateryna Zarembo was born on October 2, 1987 in Kyiv. She received a master's degree from Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko with a degree in English and Italian language and literature and from University College Dublin (Ireland) with a degree in European studies (2009). In 2016, she defended her PhD thesis on the missions of the Common Security and Defense Policy of the European Union in Ukraine and Moldova.

During most of her professional career, she combined research, teaching and literary work. From 2010 to 2019, she worked at the New Europe Center (until 2016 - the Institute of World Policy), where she dealt with the research of European integration and security challenges of Ukraine and international advocacy. At the same time, she worked as a translator - in 2018, her translation of Candice Millard's book "Hero of the Empire" about Winston Churchill was published, in 2020 - the translation of Tony Judt's "Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945" (shortlisted for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize).

Based on her policy analysis experience, she published her recommendations for policy paper writing in the manual "Writing policy papers. The art of a persuasive text" (co-authored with Anna Jungen, Ilona Sologub, Iryna Lapshina, Taras Doroniuk) (Vikhola, 2021).

From 2020 to 2023, she worked as a lecturer at the International Relations Department of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University. In 2022-2023, she was a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), and in 2023-2024, she was a visiting researcher at the Central European University (Vienna, Austria). She also continues cooperation with the New Europe Center as an associate senior analyst.

In 2023, Choven publishing house published her book about the civil society of the Ukrainian East, "The Rise of the Ukrainian Sun".

Research interests: international relations, security policy, civil society.

Kateryna Zarembo is based in Kyiv.