Olga Rudnieva

Olga Rudnieva (born 1977, Donetsk) is the co-founder and CEO of the Superhumans Center in Ukraine which has treated over 1,000 wounded amputees from the Russia-Ukraine conflict in its first two years.

In December 2024, she was named in BBC's 100 women for her work inspiring others.

Biography Rudnieva was a director of the Olena Pinchuk Foundation, which worked to combat HIV/AIDS in Ukraine. After the beginning of the Russian invasion, she was abroad and coordinated a humanitarian aid hub in Poland. She subsequently returned to Ukraine and became involved in the Superhumans Center, a project founded by Andrii Stavnitser. "Some people have double, triple, quadruple amputations. All these people will need prosthetics, or some will use wheelchairs...With more than one million people on the front line... Ukraine will become "the country of people with disabilities". Infection control is also a challenge with patients often arriving with a number of infections after being in up to 6-7 different hospitals during their evacuation. "There are many challenges, but none are insoluble", says Rudnieva.

The second Superhumans Center opened in Dnipro, and a third center is planned in Odesa for 2026.

Rudnieva's philosophy that injuries can be empowering, has found many celebrity supporters including adventurer Bear Grylls, Richard Branson, singer Sting and actress Trudie Styler.