Oleksandra Matviichuk heads the Center for Civil Liberties, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. She is a human rights defender who works on issues in Ukraine and the OSCE region, and also coordinates the work of the initiative group Euromaidan SOS. Oleksandra has experience in creating horizontal structures for massive involvement of people in human rights activities against attacks on rights and freedoms, as well as a multi-year practice of documenting violations during armed conflict. In 2016 she received the Democracy Defender Award for “Exclusive Contribution to Promoting Democracy and Human Rights” from missions to the OSCE. In 2017 she became the first woman to participate in the Ukrainian Emerging LEaders Program of Stanford University. In 2022 Matviichuk was also awarded with the Right Livelihood Award and recognised as one of the 25th influential women in the world by the
Financial Times.