Anna Bon, founder of the DeHealth Foundation, joins the Supervisory Board of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University

Ukraine's Ministry of Education and Science has approved a new Supervisory Board for Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Order no. 1555 was signed by Minister Andriy Butenko and issued under part one of article 37 of the Law of Ukraine on Higher Education, the ministry's statute, and on the university's own application.

The new board includes Anna Bondarenko (Anna Bon), founder of the DeHealth Charitable Foundation, an investor and entrepreneur in AI and energy infrastructure, co-founder and director of Black Vault, co-founder of DeHealth, and the initiator of Energy Nation — a civic and economic initiative working on infrastructure, productive assets and Ukraine's long-term economic model.

The board also draws heavily on the judiciary. It is chaired by Vitaliy Zuiev, a judge of the Commercial Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court; Armen Behunts, head of the Second Administrative Court of Appeal, is deputy chair, and Nataliya Novikova, head of the Commercial Court of Kharkiv region, is secretary. They are joined by representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the legal profession and the civic sector.

Why does a law university need a technology entrepreneur and investor?

For Anna Bon, the board seat is a straightforward continuation of her current work. She operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence, energy, critical digital infrastructure and capital. She is a co-founder of Black Vault, which develops AI and high-performance computing infrastructure in Europe, a co-founder of DeHealth, and the initiator of Energy Nation.

The chain runs straight through the university: legal knowledge becomes data, data becomes the basis for artificial intelligence, that intelligence needs compute, compute needs energy and data centres, and the whole of it needs new law. A university has to educate people who understand the chain end to end — from energy and compute through data, AI, institutions and capital.

There is a second reason this matters to a law university: data protection is not an abstraction for Anna Bon. In December 2021, on behalf of DeHealth, she signed a memorandum with the Cyber Police Department of Ukraine's National Police on the protection of medical data. In 2023 she took part in the National Cybersecurity Cluster on cybersecurity in healthcare, run by the National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre under the National Security and Defence Council together with CRDF Global. She has spent years working at precisely the intersection where the hardest legal questions now arise.

And behind those technologies sit questions the law is still answering. Who owns medical data? Who may use it? How is a patient's consent obtained? How does the law work when part of a decision is made with the help of artificial intelligence? Who owns the infrastructure that intelligence runs on, and who controls the data it learns from?

What the work on the board will cover

Anna Bon's work on the board is expected to cover the university's digital and AI infrastructure, international partnerships, and resources for strategic projects — among them the Y-Park science park, a LegalTech hub at the university where digitised rare legal editions from the 16th to 20th centuries are to become the basis for training legal AI models.

The collection runs to more than 25,000 rare legal editions. More than 10,000 books have been digitised so far; another 16,000 need urgent work. Ukraine has no dedicated LegalTech hub of its own, and Y-Park is intended to fill that gap.

The university is in Kharkiv, a city that has been under constant attack throughout the full-scale war. Even so, in 2025 the state assessment of research activity gave Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University 100 points out of 100 and first place among more than a hundred Ukrainian higher education institutions assessed in the social sciences.

Not as a return to what was, but as a quantum leap.