Iryna Vereshchuk

Iryna Andriivna Vereshchuk (, ; born 30 November 1979) is a Ukrainian social activist, politician, and former People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. On 4 November 2021, Vereshchuk was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories. On 8 September 2024 she was appointed deputy head of Office of the President of Ukraine subjugated to Andriy Yermak.

Early life and education Vereshchuk was born on 30 November 1979 which she graduated from with a speciality of "International Information". From 2002 to 2006, she studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Lviv, In accordance with her academic results, in summer of 2009 she underwent an internship at the Cabinet Office of Ukraine, and then was added to the employee pool of Ukraine's Cabinet. In 2011, she became a postgraduate student at the Lviv Region Institute of State Administration of the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine. On 11 November 2015, she defended a thesis on the topic: "Organizational and Legal Mechanism for Improving the Administrative and Territorial Structure of Ukraine" (using reforms conducted by Poland as an example) and received a degree of Candidate of Science in State Management. State Administration on humanitarian issues and foreign policy.

She was elected mayor of Rava-Ruska on 30 October 2010.

On 17 February 2015, she left her post as mayor of Rava-Ruska due to what she called constant pressure from "pseudopatriots".

During 2015 and 2016, Vereshchuk studied in Poland under the Kirkland program, she researched Poland's experience of decentralization. for Servant of the People as number 29 on its election list. In parliament she became Chairperson of the Sub-committee on National Security and Defense of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence. From 4 September to 15 November 2019, she was a representative of the government at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). She relinquished these duties in November 2019.

Vereshchuk was the candidate of Servant of the People for the post of Mayor of Kyiv in the 2020 Kyiv local election set for 25 October 2020. The Kyiv City Territorial Election Commission announced on 6 November that in the election she had received 39,321 votes, securing fifth place and losing the election to incumbent mayor Klitschko who was re-elected in the first round of the election with 50.52% of the votes, 365,161 people had voted for him.

On 4 November 2021, Vereshchuk was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories in the Shmyhal Government.

On 8 September 2024 Vereshchuk was appointed deputy head of Office of the President of Ukraine, the government office led by Andriy Yermak. ''On 3 September 2022 about Ukrainians in occupied territories taking part in a possible referendum about joining Russia:«For our citizens who will take part in this: it's an article of the Penal Code, actually. They are on a possibility of a crime penalty. If an act of a collaboration or taking part in a referendum or even agitation for it will be proved, punishment for this people could be up to 12 years of jail with confiscation.».

Personal life Vereshchuk is married, having previously been married, and has a son and a stepson.

Awards Certificate of recognition and the Certificate of Merit awarded by Ukraine's Cabinet Office, The Order of St. Varvara, The Order of St. Pochaiv God's Mother, The Order of St. Nicholas. Jubilee Medal of "Twenty Years of Ukraine’s Independence".