Ovsiannikova, Iana

Iana Ovsiannikova is a PhD Fellow at UNU-CRIS within the Regions and Cities Governance Lab (Re-LAB) Cluster and at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University affiliated with Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES) and Multidisciplinary International Network on Sanctions (MINOS). Iana will be doing research on horizontal sanctions regimes, in particular, the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime. Within the scope of her doctoral research, Iana will explore the rationale for the norm selection for designating an individual or entity involved in human rights violations. She will also delve into the questions of the efficiency of this sanctions regime. 

Iana obtained her MA degree in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe where she performed comparative research on the EU and UK sanctions policies after Brexit on the case study of Belarus. Previously Iana worked as a communication intern at UNU-CRIS. In the past two years, Iana worked as an expert and project manager at a development cooperation consultancy based in Brussels, working on EU-funded projects on transitional justice and media support in Africa.