Oleksandra Ustinova
Ukrainian politician
Олександра Устінова
Ustinova in 2022
Incumbent
29 August 2019
Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Oleksandra Yuriivna Ustinova (Ukrainian: Олександра Юріївна Устінова; born 2 October 1985) is a Ukrainian politician and public activist serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019. Prior to her election, she was an anti-corruption activist.
Early life and career
Oleksandra Ustinova was born on 2 October 1985, in Vinnytsia. In 2001, while studying in high school, she completed a one-year study in the United States under the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) programme. In 2009, she obtained a master degree of political science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2014, she graduated from the Ukrainian School of Political Studies. In 2017, she interned in the United States under the Transatlantic Fellowship programme. In 2018-2019, she studied at Stanford University under the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders programme.
Public activity
In 2013, Oleksandra Ustinova was an active participant of the Revolution of Dignity. Later she organized help for the children of fallen soldiers of the war in Donbas as a volunteer.
Since 2014, she is an independent expert and member of the board of the Anti-Corruption Action Center. She was one of the initiators and lobbyists of the creation of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine.
In 2019, Ustinova was a member of the center for combating corruption and the secretary of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine public oversight board.
Political career
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election she was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation from the Holos political party.
On 17 December 2021 she became the faction leader of Holos.
Member of the Law Enforcement Committee in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Member of the Permanent Delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
In October 2022 Ustinova became the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Temporary Special Commission on monitoring arm supplies to Ukraine.[1]
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ustinova has lobbied[2] for arms and humanitarian aid from the United States for Ukraine. She became the voice of Ukraine in the US Congress advocating for more support of Ukraine.
Since October 2022 she is a chairwoman of the Parliamentary Temporary Special Commission on monitoring arm supplies to Ukraine.
Ustinova is also a member of the working group on the creation of a Special international tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine, established by the President of Ukraine.
