Anastasiya Donets is Head of the Legal Team for the Eastern Europe & South Caucasus Programme at IPHR, where she leads work on criminal and human rights litigation and sanctions across the region. Her work centres on individual and corporate accountability for mass atrocities and institutional strategies for addressing systemic human rights violations. In the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she focuses particularly on torture and inhumane treatment, attacks against civilians and critical infrastructure, and genocide.

Anastasiya joined IPHR as a Legal Officer in 2021, becoming Senior Legal Officer in 2023 and Team Lead of the Ukraine Legal Team in 2024 before assuming her current role in April 2026. She holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in International Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Prior to joining IPHR, she worked as an analyst with the Ukrainian human rights organisation CrimeaSOS and served as an Assistant Professor in the International Law Department at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.

Anastasiya speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, and German.