Yulia Yarina joined the Small Arms Survey in May 2023. At the Survey she is mainly engaged in research on legal arms flows as well as small arms proliferation in different regions ranging from the Caribbean to the Indo-Pacific, as well as on various projects on gender-responsive small arms control. Ms. Yarina is a development practitioner with a background in human rights, armed conflicts, and trade. She previously worked at the Geneva UN office of Amnesty International, the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Division of the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF), the World Trade Organization, as well as the University of Geneva. She holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of Geneva and a diploma in law from Humboldt University with a focus on international and trade law.