Markiyan Malsky

Markiyan Markiyanovych Malsky (; born 11 December 1984 ) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. He was Governor of Lviv Oblast (from 5 July till 26 December 2019).

He was an assistant at the Lviv Polytechnic.

Career Legal career Before joining Arzinger, Malskyy worked as a lawyer in the international arbitration team at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris. He has been head of Arzinger's Western Ukrainian branch in Lviv since 2009.

He has vast experience in resolving corporate disputes in the energy sector, contractual disputes, sales and services, real estate and construction disputes, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, real estate and M&A transactions. He was engaged in the settlement of over 300 disputes, including under the ICSID, ICC, SCC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICAC rules. He was renewed as honorary consul of Austria in Lviv in October 2020.

Public service In 2014, he won a public competition for the post of the head of the main department of the State Fiscal Service in Lviv region. After the interview with Roman Nasirov, Malskyy declined the offer because of differences in the vision of the development and goals of the Fiscal Service.

In June 2019, President Zelensky nominated Malskyy as candidate for the post of the head of the Lviv Regional State Administration (LODA) for public discussion. At first, Malsky refused, saying that he did not want to leave the post of honorary consul of Austria and that he was working on his doctoral thesis, but after receiving great support in public discussion, he agreed.

On 5 July 2019, Zelensky officially appointed Malsky to the post of head of the LODA and, on December 24, during a meeting of the Community and Territories Development Council, announced his dismissal from office. Malsky also announced his dismissal on social media and briefly summarized the results of his work during his term as the head of LODA. He was officially dismissed from the post on 26 December 2019.

Membership ofprofessional organizations and associations Source: International enforcement process. Theory and Practice - 2019, p. 470.

Private life He is married to Dr. Malska Andriana, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, with two sons.

Malskyy speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, German and Polish, with a basic knowledge of French.