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Place of Birth: Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
About Oleksiy Ryabchyn
- Oleksii (Alex) Mykhailovych Riabchyn (Ukrainian: ??????? ?????????? ??????, born 22 April 1983) is a Deputy Minister for Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine responsible for the energy-efficiency sector.
- In October 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Batkivshchyna.
- In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was not re-elected.
- During his parliamentary tenure he headed the subcommittee on energysaving and energyefficiency of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety.
- Co-chairing the inter parliamentary friendship group with The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Co-chairing the inter fractional caucus "The Eurooptimists" which unites the civil society activists, journalists and educated professionals to the Ukrainian Parliament.
- He has participated in lobbying and introducing numerous energy reforms in Ukraine.
- He personally championed initiatives supporting e-mobility, renewable energy and those focused on creating an energy efficiency market in Ukraine. Dr.
- Oleksii Riabchyn represented Ukraine in Conferences of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Paris, Marrakesh, Bonn, Katowice and Madrid.
- He is focused on climate change issues, sustainable development, green economy and supporting displaced universities that were relocated from Donbas and Crimea. Ryabchyn has a MSc with Distinction in Innovation and Sustainability for International Development from the SPRU University of Sussex and has worked as an assistant professor at Donetsk National University.
- He relocated from Donetsk to Kiev in May 2014 as a result of the war in Donbass.
- His mother is Russian origin.In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was not re-elected after being placed #32 on the election list of Batkivshchyna.Education: 2012 – 2013 SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK MSc with Distinction in Innovation and Sustainability for International Development. 2000 – 2010 Donetsk National University, Ukraine PhD in International Economics.
- MA (Hons), BA (Hons) in International Economics Professional Experience: 2019 - Assistant Professor, Institute Of International Relations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 2014 - Ukraine Reforms Communications Taskforce, International communications strategy manager, Kiev. Establishing the communications helping to developing and disseminating all kinds of reforms-focused information products needed to build public awareness, understanding and support for reforms. 2014 - Washington Post, Fixer, Freelancer.
- Contributed to more than 50 articles covering the events in Ukraine during the conflict at the Donbas. 2005–2017, Assistant Professor, Research Fellow at Donetsk National University, Ukraine. Scientific interest - innovative development, economic crises, green economy and energy aspects of globalization, Ukrainian unconventional energy sources.
- 2006 - 2012, Deputy chairman at PromEconomService Corporation, Ukraine.
- Was responsible for strategy and introduction of innovative industrial energy-saving and nature- conservative technologies at municipal and industrial enterprises.
- 2002 - 2004, Volunteer, Project manager at NGO - Regional Development Agency "Donbas", Ukraine.
- Was responsible for the implementation of economic restructuration program of depressed cities in Donbas.
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