Yuliia Chykolba is a humanitarian mine action expert. She has developed and led safety awareness programmes on explosive hazards in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and recently Ukraine. Since 2016, she has held various roles within the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and international NGOs, working in countries with the highest levels of mine and explosive contamination in the world. She is an alumna of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Cambridge Security Initiative and a Chevening scholar. In 2022, she returned home to Ukraine to support the humanitarian efforts in the country. In 2023, together with the ACAPS, she co-hosted the Ukrainian series of the Trumanitarian podcast focused on the performance of the humanitarian aid sector in Ukraine after the Russian full-scale invasion.
