Iryna Stavchuk

Iryna Ivanivna Stavchuk is a Ukrainian writer, ex deputy minister and climate policy advisor. She was recognized as one of the BBC 100 Women in 2023.

Life Stavchuk was born in about 1982.

Stavchuk's education included studying Ecological and Economic Monitoring at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in Kyic. After she graduated she went to Sweden where she took a post-graduate course in Ecology Management and Policy at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics.

She began work at the National Environmental Center of Ukraine where she worked on climate related policies. She was helping to organise Ukraine's response to climate change and she worked with the United Nations with their negotiations concerning climate for over a decade. Stavchuk has served on that fund's board of directors. which she had co-founded. In 2019 she left being Ecoaction's Executive Director to become a Deputy Minister in Ukraine. She was responsible for climate issues until 2022. where she is making plans for post-war recovery that are compatible with climate change. In 2023 she was one of the three Ukrainian women included in the list of BBC 100 Women together with writer Oksana Zabuzhko and charity founder Olena Rozvadovska.