Olha Kotenko graduated from National Pedagogical Dragomanov University in 1997 with a degree in specialty “Russian, English Languages and Foreign Literature” and received qualification of “Teacher of Russian, English Languages and Foreign Literature”. In 2005 she pursued the second higher education at the State Higher Educational Institution “University of Educational Management” of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and received the qualification of “Educational Institution Manager”. In 2014 she got a diploma of the Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Acmeology. From 2011 to 2017 she was the Head of Foreign Languages and Methodology Department of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.  

Participant of the Higher Education Leadership Development Programme supported by the British Council in Ukraine, Institute of Higher Education of NAPS of Ukraine and Leadership Foundation (UK), (2016-2017).
Coordinator of the international project "Pre-service Teacher Training in Competences for Democratic Citizenship" (the organizer: The European Wergeland Center (EWC), an implementation period: January 1, 2017-December 31, 2018).
Participant of the international framework project "High School Teacher Competences in Change" (the grandholder organization: Visegrad Fund, an implementation period: Decemcer 1, 2017-May 30, 2019).
Participant of the international framework project "Modernization of Pedagogical Higher Education on the Use of Innovative Teaching Tools" (MoPED) (the grand holder organization: European Commission, an implementation period: October 1, 2017-April 14, 2021).
Participant of the international project "Finnish Support for Ukrainian School Reform" ("Learning Together"), a component "Higher school" (financed by the Ministry of Education of Finland, an implementation period: September 2021 - May 2022).
Co-author of the Educational program for children aged 2 to 7 “The Child” (ed. 2020) and Methodological recommendations for it (ed. 2021).
Participant of the Academic Mobility Program (staff mobility) in the Republic of Poland (2021) and the Czech Republic (2015).
Organizer and coordinator of scientific and methodical events on the problems of professional training of future teachers. Has many years of experience in conducting public lectures, workshops, and trainings for educators (over 15 years).
Author of over 70 scientific and methodical works, among them: educational and methodical manuals; articles in specialized scientific publications and international scientometric databases Scopus, Web of Science. Co-author of chapters in native and foreign monographs on current problems of professional training of teachers.