Iryna Makarenko

Since December, 2010 works at the Permanent Secretariat of the Commission on the Protection of Black Sea Against Pollution (Bucharest Convention), an international intergovernmental organization and the Regional Sea Convention for the Black Sea based in Istanbul, Turkey. Before moving to Turkey worked as diplomat in the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union in Brussels; earlier as Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine on European Integration and as diplomat in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. She has a Master Degree in the field of Environmental and Energy Law (Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Leuven (Kingdom of Belgium), Certificates on Water Law (University of Dundee, Scotland), Environmental Diplomacy (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Regional Economics (University of Genoa, Italy). Since 2018 member of Pool of Experts for UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects.