Oksana Matiiash is the CEO of WINWIN EdTech Center of Excellence, Ukraine's national hub for technology and innovation in education. Launched in December 2025 under Ukraine's Global Innovation Strategy, the Center generates evidence through research and foresight and pilots education technologies, including AI, while Ukraine navigates a full-scale war. It also brings together government, educators, researchers, startups, and global partners to scale innovations that improve learning. The Center's partners include the Ministries of Digital Transformation and of Education and Science of Ukraine, UNICEF, Google for Education, OpenAI, Estonian Centre for International Development (ESTDEV).

Oksana holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar, and a law degree from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

In this episode, Oksana talks with Svenia Busson about:

  • Why Ukraine launched a national EdTech Center to accelerate education innovation during the war and in the age of AI
  • Leading wartime emergency education — and what crisis taught her about what school systems actually need
  • The WINWIN EdTech Center's three pillars: research and foresight, innovation and pilots, ecosystem-building
  • Ukraine's new OpenAI-funded study on how AI is shaping learning for students living through years of disrupted schooling
  • Why teachers, not students, come first in her AI rollout — even as kids learn to prompt on TikTok
  • The World Bank-backed RCT where six weeks of tech-assisted tutoring closed months of learning loss
  • Building a "Responsible AI" framework with teachers as co-designers, not just recipients
  • The critical-thinking and learning-agency skills she considers non-negotiable in an information war


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