Ms Halyna Pyryn

Halyna focuses on researching societal resilience under wartime conditions and designing a system to protect the development of Ukrainian youth. She is a co-author of the analytical paper Youth development: an evidence-based approach.

Her career spans over 13 years of teaching practice, leadership of educational institutions, and public administration in the field of education.

A senior leader as Deputy Head of Education for one of Ukraine's largest cities, where she focused on developing adolescent agency through project-based participation, building a communication strategy between students and war veterans, and designing educational environments for the development of young people under conditions of armed conflict.

She is the creator of School Reality — a nationwide school series produced by students themselves, which reached over 100 schools and whose results scaled to the national level. For more than four years, she led a Teacher Development Center, training educators using British Council metrics as part of national education reform.

She is currently completing a Master's degree at the University of Warwick (UK) in Leadership for Educational Transformation, researching models for developing leadership potential within Ukraine's education system.

Her expertise spans youth policy, cognitive security, narrative sovereignty, soft power, and the design of environments for youth potential development under conditions of armed conflict.