Olena Sotnyk

Olena Sotnyk
Олена Сергіївна Сотник
Sotnyk in 2014
Member of the Parliament of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014 – 24 July 2019
Personal details
Born
Olena Serhijivna Sotnyk

Kyiv
NationalityUkrainian
Political partySelf Reliance
Alma materKing's College London

Olena Serhijivna Sotnyk[a] is a Ukrainian public figure, lawyer and politician, former Member of the Parliament of Ukraine (VIII convocation) from Samopomich ("Self-Reliance") Party. She was the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European integration; Sotnyk served as a Head of the Sub-committee on Approximation of Ukrainian Legislation to the EU Law. Shed co-chaired the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Unit with Belgium.[1] She was Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the PACE,[2] a member of the Bureau of Women's Parliamentarians in the Inter-Parliamentary Union[3] and a vice-president of political group the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the PACE. Sotnyk was the first female to represent Ukraine in the Yale World Fellows Program.[4] She was one of the most successful women of Ukraine in 2019 according to the "New Time"[5] and "Legal Newspaper".[6]


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  2. ^ "PACE Member File". assembly.coe.int. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Bureau of Women Parliamentarians". Inter-Parliamentary Union. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Class of 2019 | Yale Greenberg World Fellows". worldfellows.yale.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  5. ^ "НВ назвав топ-100 найбільш успішних жінок України". nv.ua. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Ukrainian Women in Law 2019 – Юридична Газета". yur-gazeta.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.