Maryna Kyselova joined the Basel Institute on Governance in July 2024 as Associate, Corruption Prevention in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Before joining the Institute, Maryna held diverse positions in the Ukrainian public service including Chief of the Education Department State Penitentiary Service and expert at the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, where she gained experience in anti-corruption programming.

This led to Maryna’s most recent position at the Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, where she prepared the adjustments of anticorruption plans and policies, monitoring, evaluation,  and reporting of anti-corruption programme activities, and coordinated the investigation of corruption offences. 

Maryna graduated from National Academy of Internal Affairs with a Master’s degree and has pursued PhD studies at the Scientific Research Institute for the Study of Crime Problems at the National Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine