Khrystyna Holynska Junior Policy Researcher at RAND

Khrystyna Holynska is a PhD student in the “Research, Analysis, and Design” program at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a junior policy researcher at RAND. Her research interests include foreign, defense, and security policy, with a focus on Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe.

Khrystyna holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a master’s degree in Business Administration (Business and Management in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis) from the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). 

Before joining Pardee RAND, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at the KSE, where she also led the startup research initiative on defense and security policy, KSE StratBase.

She worked as a Strategic Analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, focusing on issues related to Russian coercive behavior, as well as the future of NATO and geodynamics.

From October 2022 to February 2023, she was a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In October 2023, she participated in the New Security Leaders program at the Warsaw Security Forum.