Mr. Roman Avramenko

Roman Avramenko is a Ukrainian human rights defender and an expert in documenting atrocity crimes.

Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, Roman has documented war crimes and crimes against humanity for various national and international accountability mechanisms. He has carried out more than 70 field missions to conflict zones in eastern Ukraine and occupied Crimea, and has also worked during outbreaks of hostilities in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh) to document and investigate international crimes.

Roman is a co-founder and former Executive Director of Truth Hounds, a human rights NGO focusing on accountability for war crimes, memorialization, and reparations for victims.

He has trained more than 200 human rights defenders in Ukraine, Syria, Armenia, Tajikistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Moldova to collect witness testimonies, analyze impact craters, and produce photos and videos as evidence. He has also trained and mentored over 100 Ukrainian prosecutors and investigators to strengthen domestic justice in prosecuting conflict-related crimes.

In 2024–2025, Roman served as Access to Justice Lead at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, ensuring the implementation of transitional justice norms in Ukraine through accountability, access to redress, the right to truth, memorialization, and guarantees of non-recurrence.

In 2025, Roman joined The Reckoning Project as Director of Research and Analysis to bridge knowledge and advocacy to advance actionable tools for accountability, broader justice, and systemic change.