Oleksii Mykhailovych Riabchyn is a Ukrainian politician, scientist, journalist. Served as Deputy Minister for Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine responsible for the energy-efficiency sector in 2019-2020. In October 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list ofBatkivshchyna. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was not re-elected. During his parliamentary tenure he headed the subcommittee on energysaving and energyefficiency of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety. Co-chairing the inter parliamentary friendship group with The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Co-chairing the inter fractional caucus "The Eurooptimists" which unites the civil society activists, journalists and educated professionals to the Ukrainian Parliament. He has participated in lobbying and introducing numerous energy reforms in Ukraine. He personally championed initiatives supporting e-mobility, renewable energy and those focused on creating an energy efficiency market in Ukraine. Dr. Oleksii Riabchyn represented Ukraine in Conferences of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Paris, Marrakesh, Bonn, Katowice and Madrid. He is focused on climate change issues, sustainable development, green economy and supporting displaced universities that were relocated from Donbas and Crimea. Ryabchyn has a MSc with Distinction in Innovation and Sustainability for International Development from the SPRUUniversity of Sussex and has worked as an assistant professor at Donetsk National University. He relocated from Donetsk to Kyiv in May 2014 as a result of the war in Donbass. His mother is Russian origin. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was not re-elected after being placed #32 on the election list of Batkivshchyna. Education: 2012 – 2013 - SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK, MSc with Distinction in Innovation and Sustainability for International Development. 2000 – 2010 - Donetsk National University, Ukraine PhD in International Economics. MA, BA in International Economics 2014 - Ukrainian School of Political Studies. 2017 - Executive Course on Oil, Gas and Mining Governance at the University of Oxford. 2018 - Responsible Leadership seminar at the ASPEN Institute Kyiv. '''Professional Experience: 2020 - Radio host with "Green innovations" at Radio NV 2019 - Assistant Professor, Institute Of International Relations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 2014 - Ukraine Reforms Communications Taskforce, International communications strategy manager, Kiev. Establishing the communications helping to developing and disseminating all kinds of reforms-focused information products needed to build public awareness, understanding and support for reforms. 2014 - Washington Post, Fixer, Freelancer. Contributed to more than 50 articles covering the events in Ukraine during the conflict at the Donbas. 2005–2017, Assistant Professor, Research Fellow at Donetsk National University, Ukraine. Scientific interest - innovative development, economic crises, green economy and energy aspects of globalization, Ukrainian unconventional energy sources. 2006 - 2012, Deputy chairman at , Ukraine. Was responsible for strategy and introduction of innovative industrial energy-saving and nature- conservative technologies at municipal and industrial enterprises. 2002 - 2004, Volunteer, Project manager at NGO - , Ukraine. Was responsible for the implementation of economic restructuration program of depressed cities in Donbas.
