Dmytro Lubinets

Dmytro Valeriyovych Lubinets (; born 4 July 1981) is a Ukrainian politician and jurist, who is currently serving as the 4th Ombudsman of Ukraine. He has been a Member of the Ukrainian parliament since 2014, and was re-elected during 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Early life and education Lubinets was born and raised in Volnovakha, a city located in the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region. Between 1998 and 2003, he studied international relations at the Donetsk National University. In 2013, he graduated from the Yaroslav Mudryi University in Kharkiv in the field of law. Following his graduation, he worked as a lawyer.

Political career In 2010, Lubinets was elected into the Volnovkha City Council, representing Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Front for Change party. In 2014, he was elected as member of the Ukrainian parliament as a deputy for the European Solidarity party, representing his native electoral district in the Donetsk Oblast.

Between 2019 and 2022, he was the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Human Rights and the Reintergration of the Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk Oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

On 1 July 2022, he was appointed as the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, after receiving the votes of 250 deputies.

Personal life He is married and father of two children.