Tetiana Melnyk is an expert on municipal infrastructure recovery. She is currently working for the executive body of the Association of Ukrainian Cities, which is the most reputable non-governmental organisation in Ukraine representing the local government and participating in the policy dialogue with state authorities at all levels on behalf of municipalities. Tetiana has conducted research on providing information and analytical support to public administration of regional development and holds a PhD in public administration (2023). She studied at the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Tetiana has worked at the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, the Ministry on Regional Development, Construction and Housing of Ukraine, and the Kyiv City State Administration. Currently, at the Association of Ukrainian Cities, she is responsible for advising municipalities and conducting policy analysis in the field of regional and local development and recovery. In 2022 Tetiana was a Red Cross volunteer, coordinating the so-called “bank of clothes” for internally displaced persons, who fled from the occupied territories in the Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine to one of the districts of Kyiv.