Yuliya Yurchenko is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Centre for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the Chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network Board (CPERN; at European Sociological Association), Chair of the Critical European Studies Workshop/CPERN, Editor for Capital and Class, and Global Political Economy. 

She is the author of (2018) "Ukraine and The Empire of Capital: from marketisation to armed conflict," Pluto Press: London; a member of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (UK), official representative of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine in the United Kingdom, and member the Social Movement (political organisation), Ukraine.