Iryna Herashchenko

For the athlete with the same name, see Iryna Herashchenko (athlete).
Iryna Herashchenko
Ірина Геращенко
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
14 April 2016
Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on European integration
of the 8th convocation
Assumed office
December 4, 2014
Preceded by Hryhoriy Nemyria
Personal details
Born (1971-05-15) May 15, 1971
Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Unaffiliated
People's Deputy of Ukraine
6th convocation
November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012
Elected as: Our Ukraine Bloc, No.19[1]
7th convocation
December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014
Elected as: UDAR, No.6[2]
8th convocation
November 27, 2014 – Present
Elected as: Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No.9[3]

Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko (Ukrainian: Ірина Володимирівна Геращенко) is a politician and journalist of Ukraine. She is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine (2000).[4] She is the current First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament),[5] also serving as President's Humanitarian Envoy at the Minsk peace talks regarding the War in Donbas. While being elected to parliament on several occasions from various political entities, she is not known to be a full member of any political party.

Personal life and education

Born on 15 May 1971 in Cherkasy, Herashchenko graduated from the Kiev University Department of Journalism in 1993.[4] She is married and has two daughters and a son.[4]

Career

Herashchenko worked as a journalist for Inter and then as a presidential press secretary in 2005–06 for Viktor Yushchenko.[4] In 2006–07, she was a president of the Information Agency UNIAN.[4] In November 2007, she entered parliament for the first time as a member of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. For the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, she joined the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko.[4]

In June 2014, during the war in Donbass, Herashchenko was appointed President Petro Poroshenko's envoy for his Peace plan for Eastern Ukraine.[6] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, she was re-elected into parliament after being in the top 10 of the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[7][8] There she became Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration.[9] On 14 April 2014 Herashchenko was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).[5]

References

  1. ↑ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Irina Gerashchenko" (in Russian). liga.net.
  5. 1 2 Rada appoints Iryna Gerashchenko as first deputy speaker, Interfax-Ukraine (14 April 2016)
  6. ↑ "UDAR MP Heraschenko becomes Poroshenko's envoy for peaceful settlement in southeastern Ukraine". Interfax-Ukraine. 17 June 2014.
  7. ↑ "General official results of Rada election". Interfax-Ukraine. 11 November 2014.
    "Central Election Commission announces official results of Rada election on party tickets". Interfax-Ukraine. 11 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Геращенко Ірина Володимирівна" [Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada website.
  9. ↑ "Committee on issues of ecological policy, natural resources, and the elimination of the consequences of the Chornobyl Catastrophe" (in Ukrainian). Official website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
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