Hanna Hopko (; born 4 March 1982) is a Ukrainian civil society leader and politician, a former Member of Parliament and head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada. She did not participate in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
She is the founder and Head of the Board of ANTS National Interests Advocacy Network, co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory, and Warsaw Security Forum International Advisory Council member.
Hopko is an expert in advocacy, on Russian expansionism and hybrid warfare. She was one of the civic leaders of the EuroMaidan during Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity. Hopko was elected to Parliament from the pro-European Self-Reliance Party in 2014 and later served as an independent MP. She has spoken on security issues at forums hosted by Canada, such as the 95th Rose-Roth Seminar of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association held in Kyiv and was the keynote speaker alongside Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at the 2019 Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto. She belongs to the Young Global Leaders Networks of World Economic Forum and Munich Security Conference.
Early life and education
Hopko was born 4 March 1982 in Hanachivka, Peremyshliany Raion, Lviv Oblast. In 2004, she received a MA in international journalism at Lviv University, a PhD in Social Communications in 2009 and a CEP Diploma for achievements in ecological teaching from the Civic Education Project. In 2008 she completed the Leadership Program in TC at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2009 she received a PhD in social communications at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2012 she studied at the Ukrainian School of Political Studies. In 2017, she completed the program Transformational Leadership: Leadership at the Edge at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Career
Civil society activities
Hopko has contributed to various training programs for civil society activists in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Georgia, and Belarus.
From 2005 to 2007, she worked as communications manager of the Ukraine Citizen Action Network (UCAN/ISC, USAID contractor) in Kyiv, and led environmental journalism training programs in Donetsk Oblast, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
In 2009, she co-founded the Life Regional Advocacy Center, Ukraine's primary partner of the Bloomberg Initiative to reduce tobacco use, and the Ukrainian representative of ENSP, FCA and WHO. Hopko was deputy director of the Center until April 2012.
In 2009 Hopko also became an advocacy coordinator of the National Coalition of NGOs and Initiatives For Smoke-Free Ukraine. She successfully advocated for five tobacco-control laws, including a complete ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship; a ban on smoking in all public and indoor work areas; the implementation of graphic warnings on cigarette packaging; and an increase in tobacco taxes. According to the World Health Organization's 2011 report on tobacco, Ukraine moved from 4th to 29th in the world for prevalence of smoking, due largely to efforts led by Hopko.
In January 2012, Hopko became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohkmatdyt National Children's Specialized Hospital.
From 2010 to 2012, she was an adviser for the Morality, Spirituality and National Health parliamentary group. From January 2011 to September 2014, she was an advocacy expert at the Institute of Political Education (expert at seminars for assistants, advisors of Members of the Parliament, civic activist) and at the National Democracy Institute (NDI).
From February to September 2014, she worked as a coordinator of the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative and served in an inter-factional parliamentary group, Platform of the Reforms.
Hopko was the initiator and co-organizer of the international conference Democracy in Action. Participants were Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Maia Sandu, Mircea Geoană, Gianni Buquicchio, Věra Jourová and Samantha Power.
After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hopko took the lead in various humanitarian and advocacy efforts of Ukriane by implementing advocacy campaigns for international support to Ukraine, including providing Ukraine with high-precision weapons, ammunition, Leopard and Abrams tanks, F-16s and ATACMS.