Vladyslava Savytska

Ukraine

MBA, 2023
Mansfield College, Kofi Annan Scholarship
Funding: Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann/ Hope-Rausing

Vladyslava is a Product Manager from Ukraine. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Chinese Literature from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and lived for two terms in China while attending exchange programmes at Peking University and Nankai University. During her time in China, she ventured into entrepreneurship and successfully established a company dedicated to assisting small and medium-sized Ukrainian enterprises in sourcing products from China. The company provided help with services such as negotiations, logistics, market-fit research, product inspection, and sampling. After graduation, Vladyslava pursued the postgraduate programme called the Young India Fellowship in India and worked at a Bengaluru-based robotics startup that specialises in building autonomous cooking robots for households.

In India, Vladyslava also actively engaged herself in animal welfare initiatives, organising rescue and birth control efforts for stray dogs and cats in her community. Following her time at Oxford, Vladyslava aspires to return to Ukraine and contribute towards the development of Ukraine's post-war economy by building sustainable businesses.