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Sasha Borovik's testimonial on FODP 2018.
Oleksandr "Sasha" Borovik (Ukrainian: Олександр Боровик (Саша Боровик)) is a German lawyer. He is an adviser to the governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Personal life
Born in Lviv on 7 April 1968, Borovik studied at Lviv University's Faculty of Foreign Languages until spring 1990 when he decided to move to Prague, Czechoslovakia. After studying at Prague University, he went on to graduate from Harvard Law School.
Borovik is a German citizen. He was granted Ukrainian citizenship in early March 2015 by president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. He was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship on 4 May 2017 because dual citizenship is illegal in Ukraine.
Career
Borovik joined a law firm which worked with the Czech government on preparations to join the European Union. He later worked as the head lawyer for Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector organization in Seattle. In March 2014, he moved to London and became Akamai Technologies' EMEA general counsel.
From March to mid-May 2015, Borovik worked as an adviser at Ukraine's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. In June 2015, the governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikheil Saakashvili, appointed him as his adviser. Having declined to give up his German citizenship after a law banning state officials from having any citizenship other than Ukrainian came into effect on 1 May 2016, Borovik resigned from the post of Odessa Regional Administration deputy head on 4 May 2016. He remained Saakashvili's advisor.
In the October 2015 Odessa mayoral election Borovik was the Petro Poroshenko Bloc's (PBB) candidate for the mayor of Odessa. Incumbent mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov defeated him with 52.9% against 25.7% in the first round of the mayoral election. In the simultaneously-held local election he appeared as number one on the PBB's electoral list and was elected into Odessa's city council.