Sophia Opatska is Vice Rector for Strategic Development at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU).  She is Founding Dean and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UCU Business School. Sofiya has around 25 years of experience in Business Education and managing educational institutions as well as in the corporate sector. Her areas of expertise for teaching and research are Organizational Strategy, Leadership, Entrepreneurship. Since the beginning of the full scale invasion Sofiya has been putting extra effort to communicate internationally about the resilience of Ukrainian business which is based on her research among Ukrainian companies. She is a member of the Board of first Impact Investment project in Ukraine Promprylad.Renovation, as well as Vice President of European Federation of Catholic Universities.