Period of Visiting: October 2024 

Olena Uvarova is an Associate Professor at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Ukraine) and Visiting Researcher at Wageningen University, Law Group. Her expertise covers General Jurisprudence, Human Rights, Rule of Law, and Comparative Legal Studies. She also was the developer of the optional courses on Tolerance in the Post-Conflict Societies (in 2016), Gender Equality (in 2018), and Business and Human Rights (in 2019) for NLU. Olena has more than 15 years of experience in human rights (as a national and international consultant in the UN Women in Ukraine, Council of Europe, OSCE, USAID, UNDP, and UNICEF projects). Since 2017, she has been working on business and human rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. She has been also actively involved in international and regional initiatives on BHR issues led by: the UN Working group on business and human rights; the Global BHR Scholars Association; Business and Human Rights Resource Center; Danish Institute for Human Rights and others.