Svitlana Lebedenko

Svitlana Lebedenko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. She is also a part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institute, where she contributes to the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Previously, she was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University School of Law's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, a Research Fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law. She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, where she was awarded the Special Doctoral Fellowship (Hans Kelsen Grant), an LLM in European Union Law from the College of Europe (Bruges campus), and an LLM in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law from the National Research University Higher School of Economics. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Dr Lebedenko specialises in innovation and industrial policy, law and technology, and intellectual property law. Her first book, Russian Innovation and Intellectual Property: From Communism to Capitalism, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2026.