Oksana Syroyid
Оксана Сироїд
Syroyid in October 2014
Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
November 27, 2014[1] – 29 August 2019
Preceded byRuslan Koshulynskyi
Succeeded byOlena Kondratiuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
8th convocation
In office
November 27, 2014 – 29 August 2019
ConstituencySelf Reliance, No.4[2]
Personal details
Born (1976-05-02) May 2, 1976
Horodyshche, Sokal Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
NationalityUkrainian
Political partySelf Reliance
Websitew1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/site2/p_deputat_kerivnyk?d_id=3180

Oksana Ivanivna Syroyid (Ukrainian: Оксана Іванівна Сироїд, born May 2, 1976) is a Ukrainian politician and jurist. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. In December 2014, she became the first woman to serve as the deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament. Since October 2019 Syroyid is the party leader of Self Reliance.[3]

Syroyid is also the director of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation.

Early life and education

Oksana Syroyid was born in Horodyshche, a small village of Sokal Raion, Lviv Oblast.[4] In 1993, she graduated from Chervonohrad school No.7. In 1993, she enrolled at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1997.[5] In 1998, Syroyid began studying at Kyiv University's Center of Law Studies and graduated as a Master of Laws in 2000. In 2002, she moved to Canada to study at Ottawa University, receiving a Master of Laws degree in 2003.

Career

In 1994, Syroyid became an assistant to Mykhailo Horyn and later worked for Ihor Yukhnovskyi.[6] From 1997 to 2002, she was employed at various analytical organizations that monitored reforms in Ukraine, including the Interdepartment analytical consulting council on matters of development of production forces and producing relations (Cabinet of Ukraine), the United Nations Development Programme, and the Department for International Development.

While studying in Canada, Syroyid worked as an intern for the Gowlings law firm. From 2004 to 2012, she worked as a national manager for the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine. In September 2012, she became the director of a charity fund, the Ukrainian Legal Foundation. Established in 1992 and sponsored by George Soros, the foundation works toward the reformation of the legal system in Ukraine.

During the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, Syroyid was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Self Reliance.[2][7] On December 4, 2014, she became the Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada.[1][6]

Syroyid took again take part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for Self Reliance.[8] But in the election they won 0.62% of the votes, while the election had a 5% election threshold, and thus she did not gain a parliamentary seat (the party won 1 seat (in one of the electoral constituencies)).[9]

On 19 October 2019 Syroyid was elected the party leader of Self Reliance by its party congress.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Оксану Сироїд обрано заступником Голови Верховної Ради України" [Oksana Syroyid was elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada] (in Ukrainian). Self Reliance. December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Народний депутат України VIII скликання: Сироїд Оксана Іванівна" [People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation: Oksana Ivanivna Syroyid] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada website. Archived from the original on October 20, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Sadovyi after the failure of the election resigned as the leader of "Self-help". He already found a replacement". glavcom.ua (in Ukrainian). October 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Oksana Syroid". Self Reliance. September 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Alumni: Oksana Syroyid". National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy.
  6. 1 2 Goncharova, Olena (December 11, 2014). "First woman as deputy speaker hopes to make parliament more transparent". Kyiv Post.
  7. ↑ Samokhvalova, Lana (December 5, 2014). "Оксана Сироїд: Сергій Ківалов - моя муза, я саме через нього у парламенті" [Oksana Syroyid: Serhiy Kivalov is my inspiration, he's the reason I'm in the parliament]. Ukrinform (in Ukrainian).
  8. ↑ "Samopomich party leader heads party's list of candidates in Rada election". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
  9. ↑ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)

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