Mykola Selivon

Mykola Selivon is a Ukrainian jurist, judge, diplomat and former chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

Selivon is from Chernihiv Oblast. His working career he started as a techinicain at a military unit stationed in Chernihiv. During that time he also served his obligatory military duty. In 1968 Selivon enrolled at the Kiev University. In 1973 he graduated the Kiev University Law Faculty and after a brief internship-like training at the NANU Institute of State and Law, until 1979 worked as a junior researcher at the institute.

In 1979–1996 Selivan worked at the legal department of the Office of Minister of the Council of Ministers.

In 1996–2005 he was a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. In 2005 at the presidential inauguration Selivon was administering an oath from the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

In 2005–2006 as a professor he was lecturing at the National Academy for Public Administration. In 2006–2010 he served as the ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan.