Yuliia Ammann

Yuliia Ammann (née Kucheriava) is a PhD candidate in Law at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Van den Bossche and Dr. iur. Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi. Her dissertation explores how countries with economies in transition can navigate compliance with carbon border adjustment instruments — a question that sits at the heart of today’s debate on how climate policy is reshaping the rules of international trade.

Across her research and practice, Yuliia is driven by a single question: how ambitious regulation actually lands — in ministries, at customs offices, and on the factory floor — and what that means for exporters in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Her work spans CBAM and EU sustainability legislation, ESG and supply-chain due diligence, export controls and sanctions, customs and rules of origin, TBT/SPS measures, and trade remedies.

Prior to and during her doctoral research, Yuliia was a consultant with the Economic Cooperation and Trade Division at UNECE in Geneva. There, she diagnosed procedural and regulatory barriers to global value chain integration across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe, and developed sector-specific regulatory compliance tools for the garment, footwear, and agri-food sectors. Earlier, she practiced as Of Counsel at FratiniVergano in Brussels, advising on international trade and EU regulatory matters. 

Her interest in countries with economies in transition is grounded in several years as Legal Advisor on International Trade at Metinvest Holding in Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s largest industrial exporters, where she handled market-access compliance, export controls and sanctions screening, and led trade remedy investigations across the EU, US, MENA, Asia, Brazil, and the EAEU.

Yuliia holds a Master in International Law and Economics (MILE) from the WTI, where she received the Thomas Cottier Award for Best Master Thesis, alongside law degrees with honors from Ukraine.

Her scholarly work has appeared in Cambridge University Press publications and the Global Trade and Customs Journal, and she has contributed to a range of capacity-building and technical assistance projects across multiple regions.