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Olha Stefanishyna
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Ольга Стефанішина
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Stefanishyna in 2024
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| Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration | |
| In office 4 June 2020 – 4 September 2024 |
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| President | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Prime Minister | Denys Shmyhal |
| Preceded by | Vadym Prystaiko |
| Succeeded by | TBA |
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| Born | 29 October 1985 Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Servant of the People |
| Other political affiliations |
Ukrainian Strategy |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Odesa National Economics University |
Olha Vitaliivna Stefanishyna (Ukrainian: Ольга Віталіївна Стефанішина born 29 October 1985) is a Ukrainian lawyer and civil servant. From 4 June 2020 to 4 September 2024 she was the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration.
Career
In 2008, Stefanishyna graduated from the Institute of International Relations of the University of Kyiv (in international law and English translator). In 2016, she received a specialist degree in Finance and Credit from Odesa National Economics University.
Stefanishyna, after a short career as legal adviser, became an employee of the Ministry of Justice at the end of 2007.
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.
In December 2017, she was appointed director general of the Government Office for the Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Secretariat. Stefanishyna was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Cabinet of Ministers.
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Stefanishyna stood for election to parliament as number 25 on the party list of Ukrainian Strategy. 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. (The party also failed to win a constituency seat.) After the election she worked for the Ilyashev & Partners Law Firm.
On 4 June 2020 Stefanishyna was appointed as the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration in the Shmyhal Government.
Stefanishyna currently has the fifth rank of a civil servant.
In March 2021 she became a 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 and 14th place in the ranking of "100 most influential women of Ukraine in 2021" by Focus magazine. According to legal newspaper Yurydychna Gazeta in 2021 she ranks in the top 10 successful lawyers-politicians.
On 3 September 2024 Stefanishyna tended in her resignation as the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. The following day parliament approved her dismissal.
See also
In Spanish: Olga Stefanishina para niños
