Nationality Ukrainian Name Iryna Sysoyenko | Role Politician Political party Self Reliance | |
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Born 3 June 1982 (age 41)
Mykolaiv, Ukraine ( 1982-06-03 ) | ||
Iryna Sysoenko (Ukrainian: Ірина Володимирівна Сисоєнко, born March 6, 1982) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. She is a National Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) representing the Samopomich (Self Reliance) party.
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Early life and education
Iryna Sysoenko was born on March 6, 1982 in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. She studied law at the International Solomon University, graduated in 2003. She continued her studies at the National Academy of Internal Affairs from 2003 to 2004, and at the Intellectual Property Institute in 2003-2005.
Career
From 2005 to 2009, Sysoenko worked as a chief specialist of judicial management department of Ministry of Science and Education in Ukraine, where she was charged with the duty of protecting intellectual property rights in Ukraine. In 2009, she became the General Director of Patent law agency Brand Group. From 2014 she has become Co-founder and General Director at the law firm Babych, Sysoenko and Partners.
In 2014, Sysoyenko became a lecturer in Civil Law at Kyiv Law University of the Academy of Arts in Ukraine. She is the author of numerous articles and publications on copyright, intellectual property, unfair competition, protection of rights themes and medical law. Sysoyenko is co-founder and chairman of the Charity Fund for the Protection of Medical Workers' Rights. She is a member of the Advocate Association of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Bar Association.
In 2014, she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada.
Career in academia
Sysoenko was a research fellow at the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a competitor of Civil Law at the Kyiv University pf Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is the author of numerous articles and publications on copyright, intellectual property, unfair competition, and medical law.
Socio-political activities
Sysoyenko is the co-founder (2013) and head of the "Charitable Fund for protection of the Rights of Medical Staff." She is the Member of the Bar Association of Ukraine, and Association of Lawyers of Ukraine.
In 2014 Sysoyenko was appointed the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health. Initiated a working group of the Coordinating Council for Rehabilitation members ATO [5].
In 2015 initiated the establishment of the public organisation "Coordination Centre for Help the ATO Veterans" [6]