Dr Ilona Mishchenko

Dr Ilona Mishchenko is Managing Editor at CustomsClear, where she oversees and edits articles published on the platform and in the Customs Compliance & Risk Management (CCRM) journal. She is also a member of the CCRM journal’s editorial board.

She is Associate Professor in the Maritime, Customs and Information Law Department at the National University ‘Odesa Law Academy’, where she has taught EU and Ukrainian customs law since 2005. She is also a lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University, teaching on the MBA programme ‘Customs Process Management’.

Dr Mishchenko works across the Ukrainian, EU and UK customs systems, with much of her writing examining how rules set out in one system operate in practice in another. She has researched customs matters since 2004, with a particular focus on customs valuation, tariff classification, origin of goods and non-tariff measures in international trade. She is the author of around 100 academic and professional publications.

At CustomsClear, she writes mainly on customs valuation and tariff classification, including case notes on judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, developments in the European Commission’s Compendium of Customs Valuation, and developments in UK customs law.