Khrystyna Holynska is a policy researcher at RAND. Her research focuses on great power competition, foreign information manipulation and interference, and lessons from Russia’s war against Ukraine. She is also an Associate Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Ukraine. Prior to joining RAND, Holynska led KSE StratBase, a defense and security policy research startup, and served as a professor of public policy and governance at KSE. She was also a strategic analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, where her work focused on Russia’s coercive behavior, deterrence, nonproliferation, the future of NATO, and geodynamics. From October 2022 to February 2023, she was a Research Associate at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In October 2023, she participated in the New Security Leaders Program of the Warsaw Security Forum. Holynska holds a Ph.D. in policy analysis from the RAND School of Public Policy, a Ph.D. in political science from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and an M.B.A. and M.B.A.I. in business, artificial intelligence, and data analytics from KSE.