Inna Shyrokova has been a lawyer in the Registry of the ECHR for over 11 years. Before that, from 2004 to 2008, she had been involved in numerous election observation/assessment missions as a legal analyst of the OSCE/ODIHR. From 2002 to 2004 she had been working as a legal expert in the Ukrainian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre. She had started her professional career as an English-language interpreter in 1998. Inna graduated cum laude from the Kyiv State Linguistic University and the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.