Ilona Khmeleva is an International lawyer, expert in the field of international relations, leads the Economic Security Council of Ukraine. She is also a Lead of the Socio-Political and International Advocacy Cluster at East Europe Foundation. Member of the Ukrainian Association of International Law. Author of online courses of the Educational Center of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Worked on the approaches to the international legal responsibility of the Russian Federation at the University of Toronto. Author of the study on the correlations between cyber-attacks and other dimensions of aggression, prepared by the Economic Security Council of Ukraine together with the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine and the Strategic Communications Department of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Gave lectures at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Author of many publications, including for the United States Military Academy (Lieber Institute for Law & Land Warfare at West Point).