Tetiana Kyselova

Tetiana Kyselova is an Associate Professor at the International Relations department, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and Director of the Mediation and Dialogue Research Centre. Since June 2025, Dr. Kyselova has been a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Conflict Management, Viadrina University. 

She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. She has been a visiting fellow at the Universities of London, Uppsala, Giessen, Torino and Basel. Dr. Kyselova was certified as a mediator by the Search for Common Ground and as a business mediator by the IHK Academy for Munich and Upper Bavaria. 

Dr. Kyselova has been working with civil society and the professional community of mediators in Ukraine since the 1990s, advising them on strategies of peacebuilding, professional regulation, training, and methodologies of mediation and dialogue. She has co-authored a Ukrainian law on mediation, served as an advisor to the Ukrainian government and various international organisations. Her research interests include conflict transformation, peacebuilding, mediation, negotiation and dialogue.