Oleksandra Matviichuk is a human rights lawyer and the head of the Center for Civil Liberties, an organization dedicated to advancing human rights and democratic values in Ukraine and across the OSCE region. She has extensive experience building horizontal civic structures that enable broad public engagement in defending human rights against attacks on rights and freedoms and has spent years documenting human rights violations in contexts of armed conflict. She is the author of numerous reports submitted to the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE, and the International Criminal Court. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Matviichuk co-founded the “Tribunal for Putin” initiative, which aims to document international crimes committed in all regions of Ukraine targeted by the Russian Federation, in accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Her contributions have been widely recognized. In 2016, she received the OSCE’s Democracy Defender Award for her "Exclusive Contribution to Promoting Democracy and Human Rights." She was the first woman selected for the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program at Stanford University in 2017. In 2022, Matviichuk was honored with the Right Livelihood Award, the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament, and was named one of the 25 most influential women in the world by the Financial Times. That same year, she received the Nobel Peace Prize for the work of her organization the Center for Civil Liberties.