Yevheniia Polishchuk is a Fulbright Research Fellow at MIT’s Crypto Economics Lab and an internationally engaged scholar specializing in finance, fintech, innovation, and economic resilience, with academic affiliations at Kyiv National Economic University and Krakow Economic University. She holds doctoral degrees from Kyiv National Economic University and Chernihiv National Polytechnic University, and has taught over 5,000 students across universities in Ukraine, Poland, and Germany.
She is the Co-Founder of the Ukrainian Science Diaspora, an international platform connecting over 400 scholars and 17 diaspora research organizations across 15 countries with academic institutions and policy stakeholders in Ukraine and globally. As an independent expert, she has been engaged by UNDP, IOM, and GIZ on projects spanning innovation ecosystems, migration strategy, and post-war recovery. She actively cooperates with Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science and brings a uniquely cross-sectoral perspective to questions of academic resilience, diaspora engagement, and knowledge-driven economic recovery.
