Dr. Olena Bogdan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Within the Institute, she is affiliated with the Centre for Sociological Monitoring and two thematic projects uniting teams of scholars: National Resilience of Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War: Societal Configurations and Individual Well-Being Indicators: Reflections and the Current State of Society. She is also a researcher within the project National Values and Political Reforms in Post-Maidan Ukraine (VALREF), coordinated by the University of Oslo.

She has worked on policy design and implementation within civil society and government, at national and intergovernmental level. She has served as the Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience from 2020 to 2022 (a central government agency in charge of ethnic and religious affairs) and as the Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity, and Inclusion (CDADI) at the Council of Europe in 2021-2022. She worked as an expert with the Democratic Practice Programme Initiative and  the Civil Society and Good Governance Programme of the International Renaissance Foundation.

Olena Bogdan has been a fellow in the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS since September 2025. Her current research explores policy trajectories around Orthodox issues in Ukraine since the initial Russian aggression in 2014 and the ongoing attempted full-scale invasion. Her work examines policy developments from the perspectives of good governance, national resilience, and international legal framework.