Ostap Semerak

Ostap Semerak

Ostap Semerak
Minister of Ecology
Assumed office
14 April 2016[1]
Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman
Preceded by Anna Vronsky (acting)[2]
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
In office
27 February 2014  2 December 2014[3]
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Preceded by Vladislav Zabarsky (acting)
Succeeded by Hanna Onyschenko[3]
Personal details
Born (1972-06-27) 27 June 1972
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
Political party People's Front
Alma mater Lviv University
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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Ostap Semerak is a Ukrainian politician and People's Deputy of Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Since 14 April 2016 he is Minister of Ecology in the Groysman Government.[1]

Semerak is currently a member of the People's Front.

Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in Yatsenyuk Government from 27 February 2014 till 2 December 2014.[3]

Education

From 1989 to 1994 he studied at the Faculty of Physics of the Lviv University, and from 1992 to 1998 at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy for master degree in political science.

Career

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Semerak was re-elected into parliament placed 33rd on the electoral list of People's Front.[4][5][6] He was designated as the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration on December 4, 2014.[7]

Since 14 April 2016 he is Minister of Ecology.[1]

He was a member of the Reforms and Order Party (from 1997), chairman of the executive committee.

Co-author of the book "ABC Ukrainian politics" (1997).

He speaks English.

Keen on sports and cars.

Awards and State Ranks

A civil servant 3rd rank (August 2001).

Family

Father Michael Mikhailovich (1940) – Head of thermodynamics and physics at Lviv State University of Life Safety. Mother Stephanie Vasilievna (1948) – Economist of "NTON". Wife Orisya Volodymyrivna (1974) – the doctor. He has a son and a daughter.

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