Olena Ovchynnikova

<p>Olena Ovchynnikova is a Learning Portfolio Manager at the UN System Staff College. Olena has a track record of successful sustainable development programme management within non-profit and international development sectors. Her areas of expertise include solutions-oriented strategic programme design and implementation, stakeholder management and multi-actor process coordination. Prior to joining the UNSCC Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development in Bonn, Olena was with the Regional UNDG Secretariat, providing substantive support to the Regional UNDG Team of 22 agencies, funds and programmes and facilitating regional-level support to the UN Country Teams in 18 countries of Europe and Central Asia.</p> <p>Before that Olena was Special Assistant to UNDP Regional Director for Europe and the CIS. She joined the United Nations in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2009, working on inter-agency coordination, country programming and results-based management and, later, on energy, environment and sustainable development programme. Before joining the UN, Olena taught at the University of Uman, Ukraine, and was a senior programme manager at the FMLU and coordinator of Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Programme in Ottawa, Canada. Olena received her Master’s from the University of Oxford, UK.</p>