Yana serves as Senior Project Manager within C40’s Ports and Shipping team. She leads C40’s work on Green Shipping Corridors, aimed at catalyzing the shipping transition through innovative multi-level cross-value chain partnerships.
Before joining C40, Yana worked in an environmental non-profit in Brussels, lobbying the EU to adopt ocean protection legislation. For many years, her work in Europe was centred around EU and French advocacy, campaigning, as well as citizen empowerment and mobilization. She is the co-author of 3 studies on eco-anxiety.
Yana holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a Master’s in European Affairs. She speaks English, French and Russian.