Yuliia Ovchynnykova

Yulia Yuriivna Ovchynnykova (Ukrainian: Юлія Юріївна Овчинникова; born on 24 March 1985); is a Ukrainian politician who is serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "Servant of the People" party.

Early life and education Ovchynnikova graduated from Donetsk National University in 2007 with a degree in biology. She pursued her postgraduate studies in ecology at Donetsk National University from 2007 to 2010. From 2015 to 2017 and in 2019, she was a delegate from Ukraine to the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), Ovchynnikova joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group and became a member of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, and the Committee on Culture, Science, Education, and Media. Since 2025, she has been the Assembly's rapporteur on the draft Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law, the first international legally binding instrument to address environmental crime.

Ovchynnikova is also a member of the International Alliance of Parliamentarians for the Recognition of Ecocide. In December 2022, she was part of the Ukrainian delegation to the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal.