Kateryna Buriakovska is a legal professor from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University based in Ukraine. Since 2015 she is holding the PhD in legal sciences (the title of her PhD thesis is ‘Reflection of the principle of reasonableness in law-making and law-enforcement’). As an academic teacher Kateryna is delivering lectures and practical sessions on Human Rights, the Rule of Law, Transitional Justice, Legal Writing. In July 2022 she gave a public lectureship for legal students in the FAU on human rights and human security challenges during the war in Ukraine.

Since 2016 Kateryna Buriakovska has been deeply involved in different BHR focused projects. Being an expert to International Lab on Business and Human Rights in Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, she has contributed to different activities on introducing business and human rights in curriculum and promoting BHR issues in Ukraine.

In addition to contributing to common goals of the current Project Kateryna Buriakovska seeks to concretise corporate responsibility for human rights in situations of armed conflict and post-conflict peacebuilding.