Aliona Babak
Aliona Babak | |
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Альона Бабак | |
![]() Babak in March 2013 | |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
In office 27 November 2014 – 11 March 2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 27 September 1969
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Political party | Self Reliance |
Aliona Valeriyivna Babak (Ukrainian: Альона Валеріївна Бабак, born September 27, 1969)[1] is a Ukrainian politician who was appointed in August 2019 as Minister of Regional Development[2]
Babak was a member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, member of parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, appearing 8th on the party list of Samopomich Union.[1] She left parliament in March 2017 claiming "I'm not a politician, I'm more of an expert. Political activity is difficult for me as a person."[3]
Biography
Aliona Babak was born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[4] Graduated with honours from the Kyiv State Pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, attaining the qualification of foreign languages teacher (English and French) in 1996.
In 1996 won the Edmund Muskie Fund grant for studying in the USA, which allowed her to attain Master's degree in Business Administration and Finance from Old Dominion University, Virginia.
Since 1998 Babak has worked as an entrepreneur, manager of international projects, head specialist on pricing and financial management in housing and local development. In 2004 co-founded and became a member of managing board of the charity organisation 'Local Development Institute', where she specialises on financial management of housing. She has written 30 academic papers on reforming housing and communal services and regulations for the natural monopolists.
She is a member of a working group on reforming of housing and communal services with the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine. Member of the Consulting Council at the National Commission on State Regulation of Communal Services.
References
- ^ a b "Народний депутат України VIII скликання: Бабак Альона Валеріївна" [Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada: Aliona Valeriyivna Babak] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada.
- ^ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
- ^ https://m.dt.ua/POLITICS/deputat-vid-samopomich-alona-babak-zalishit-verhovnu-radu-236075_.html
- ^ "Aliona Babak". Self Reliance.
- "АВТОБІОГРАФІЯ" [Autobiography] (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Self Reliance. 12 September 2014.