Education: Graduated with honors from Kyiv State University named after Taras Shevchenko. Major in Philology (English).Got her Doctorate in English Philology, Candidate Dissertation “Semantics and Pragmatics of Indirect Directives in Modern English”. Started workingat Kyiv Institute of National Economy in 1985 as a teacher of  English. Since 1992 has been the Head of Foreign Languages Department of the Faculty of International Economic Relations and then the Faculty of  International Economics and Management at Kyiv National Economic University. She is the authors and co-author of over 60 publications on the questions of  linguistics, teaching methods, international economics and managements. Among them “English for Specific Purposes. Economics”, “Business English for Economists. Questions of marketing”, “Business English for Economists. Questions of Banking and Financial Systems of Ukraine, Great Britain and the USA”, “English for Economists. Conversational Topics”, “International Investment Management”, “Business English for Economists: Written and Oral Communication”, and others. O. Shevchenko had her training and development programs at the University of the UK, Canada, Germany, China. Had the awards of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.