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Olha Stefanishyna

Olha Stefanishyna

Ukrainian lawyer and civil servant


Olha Vitaliivna Stefanishyna (Ukrainian: Ольга Віталіївна Стефанішина, IPA: [ˈɔl.ɦɐ ʋiˈta.lʲi.jiu̯.nɐ steˈfa.nʲi.ʃe.nɐ]; born 29 October 1985[2]) is a Ukrainian lawyer and civil servant. On 4 June 2020, she was appointed as the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration.[3][4]

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Career

In 2008, Stefanishyna graduated from the Institute of International Relations of the University of Kyiv (in international law and English translator).[1] In 2016, she received a specialist degree in Finance and Credit from Odesa National Economics University.[5][1]

Stefanishyna, after a short career as legal adviser, became an employee of the Ministry of Justice at the end of 2007.[1]

From March to December 2017, Stefanishyna worked as the director of the Government Office for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Cabinet of Ministers Secretariat.[5]

In December 2017, she was appointed director general of the Government Office for the Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Secretariat.[5] Stefanishyna was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Cabinet of Ministers.[5]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Stefanishyna stood for election to parliament as number 25 on the party list of Ukrainian Strategy.[2] In this election Ukrainian Strategy failed to win any parliamentary seats gaining 2.41% of the total votes while the election had a 5% election threshold.[6] (The party also failed to win a constituency seat.[7]) After the election she worked for the Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm.[1]

On 4 June 2020 Stefanishyna was appointed as the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration in the Shmyhal Government.[3][4]

Has the fifth rank of a civil servant. Member of the council of political party Servant of the people.

Stefanishyna ranks 45th place in the rating of "100 most influential Ukrainians" in 2021[8] and 14th place in the ranking of "100 most influential women of Ukraine in 2021" by Focus magazine.[9] According to legal newspaper Yurydychna Gazeta in 2021 she ranks in the top 10 successful lawyers-politicians.[10]

As deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, Stefanishyna is heading a number of coordination mechanisms in the government, in particular:

  • A Chair of the Commission for Coordination of Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine[11]
  • A Chair of the Commission for Equal Rights for Women and Men[12]
  • A Chair of the working group for approach agreement to the application of the carbon border adjustment mechanism to Ukraine in consultation with the European Commission[13]
  • A Chair of the Ukrainian delegation for participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow [14]
  • A Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Integrated Border Management [15]
  • Co-chair of the High-Level Dialogue Working Group on the European Green Deal and Ukraine's Green Transition[16]

The dialogue was launched in February 2021 by the prime minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and the vice-president of the European Commission on the European Green Deal Frans Timmermans.

  • Deputy Head of the Commission for Coordination of the Implementation of the Association Agreement [17]
  • Deputy Head of the Interministerial Working Group on Coordination of Climate Change in the framework of the European Commission's initiative “European Green Deal”. Develops the Ukraine-EU dialogue on Ukraine's involvement in the processes of forming the European Green Deal and further synchronization of national climate change policy with European regulation [18]
  • Member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine[19]
  • Member of the National Reform Council [20]
  • Member of the council of political party “Слуга народу” (Sluga narodu) “Servant of the people[21]

The list of Commissions chaired from Ukrainian side by the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine:

  • Ukrainian-Slovak Joint Commission on economic, industrial and scientific-technical cooperation[22]
  • Ukrainian-German High Level Group on economic cooperation [23]

See also


References

  1. "Стефанішина Ольга Віталіївна". Central Election Commission (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  2. "Стефанішина Ольга Віталіївна". dovidka.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. "Стефанишина Ольга Витальевна". LB.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  4. "Питання складу Комісії з питань координації євроатлантичної інтеграції України". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  5. "РОЗПОРЯДЖЕННЯ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №569/2021-рп". Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  6. "Рада національної безпеки і оборони України". Рада національної безпеки і оборони України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  7. "Про склад Національної ради реформ". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 January 2022.

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