Vladyslav Vlasiuk

Vladyslav Vlasiuk (born February 25, 1989, Vinnytsia, Ukraine) is an head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, reformer, public figure, lawyer and social activist.
Vlasiuk holds the position of secretary in the Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions, is an international group of independent experts working on the implementation of sanctions against Russia and Belarus as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He is also the first deputy head of Task Force Ukraine at the Prosecutor General of Ukraine|Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine - Interdepartmental working group on prosecution of persons involved in aggression against Ukraine, on search and seizure of the russian assets. He also engages in public communications on the impact of Western sanctions on the Putin regime's ability to wage war against Ukraine, comes forward with comments and publications for leading Western media.
In 2015 Vlasiuk was a co-author of the popular National Police reform bill. In 2017-19, he implemented the project "I have the right" and the anti-raider reform in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
== Early life == 
Vladyslav Vlasiuk was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. There he studied at the physical and mathematical gymnasium #17 and the lyceum #7. Prize winner of all stages of school Olympiads in physics, mathematics, history, and jurisprudence.
In 2012, he completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, received a master's degree in law, specializing in "Court. Prosecutor's Office. Advocacy. Notary". During his studies, he participated in competitions in court and parliamentary debates, and was involved in the newspaper of the faculty "Young Lawyer". Head of the debate club of the faculty.
In 2014, he completed his studies at the Queen Mary University of London, specializing in "Energy Law. Investment Arbitration" and completed an internship at the Clifford Chance law firm.
In 2020, Vladyslav Vlasiuk obtained the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences, specialization 12.08 "Criminal Law".
He is a member of the "Aspen" community. Fluent in English, German and Spanish.
He began his professional career in 2010 as a lawyer's assistant, in 2012 he became a lawyer and co-founder of the «ePravo» law firm.
== Public activity and experience of public administration ==
After the Revolution of Dignity (also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution) in March 2015, Vladyslav Vlasiuk became the deputy head of the Department of Patrol Police in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. He was one of the persons who directly launched the patrol police in July 2015. Was responsible for organizational issues and interaction of patrol officers with other units in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Vlasiuk worked in this position until November 2015, when he became the Chief of Staff of the Head of the National Police of Ukraine (at that moment - Khatia Dekanoidze). In March 2016, Vlasiuk resigned from this position, the reason being the opposition of the "old system" in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which fiercely resisted the further reform of the patrol police in Ukraine.
Vlasiuk explained to the Western media that one of the examples of such resistance was that the prosecutor's office at that time tried to challenge and block any action of the "cops", which nullified the entire reform of the patrol police.
In December 2017, Vladyslav Vlasiuk became the Director General of the Directorate for Human Rights, Access to Justice and Legal Awareness of the Ministry of Justice. In this position, he implemented the reform of legal awareness, the project was called "I have a right". The International organizations were involved in implementing this reform. In this position, Vlasiuk was responsible for improving legislation and interaction with civil society regarding the observance of human rights in Ukraine.
In 2019, Vlasiuk became the Head of the Department of State Registration and Notary and the Head of the Anti-Raider Commission of the Ministry of Justice. The main task in this position was to counter attacks by raiders against farmers in Ukraine 
He eliminated the system of "black registrars", who were the aids of criminals during the seizure of agricultural assets. Vlasiuk, as the Head of the Anti-Raiders Commission, canceled some decisions of the registrars, according to which the criminal appropriation of agricultural companies in Ukraine took place. Thanks to this, the wave of agrarian raiding in Ukraine has declined, the business climate in the country has improved.
From 2021 to the end of March 2022, Vladyslav Vlasiuk was an adviser of the Minister of Agrarian Policy Roman Leshchenko, was engaged in reforming the fishing industry and was responsible for communication with partner countries of Ukraine. After the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Vlasiuk coordinated volunteer and humanitarian aid in the agrarian direction.
== Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions and Task Force Ukraine ==
On April 2022, Vladyslav Vlasiuk became an adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak. His area of ​​responsibility became the strengthening of the regime of sanctions against Russia as an aggressor state.
Vlasiuk became a secretary in the international Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions. In this position, he coordinates the work of the organization, which includes about 100 international experts who work simultaneously on 10 areas of sanctions policy against Russia. Thanks to the constant work on strengthening the regime of sanctions against Russia, Russia's oil and gas revenues have decreased by 60% over the past 6 months.
In September 2022, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine restarted the work of the Task Force Ukraine group, which is engaged in the search and confiscation of assets of Putin's regime aids, where he became the first deputy head and secretary.
Vladyslav Vlasiuk communicates with Western partners about the need to strengthen the sanctions regime against Russia as an aggressor state. In particular, after the massive rocket attacks on October 10-11, he appealed to withdraw the Russian Federation from the Financial Action Task Force|FATF, an international organization that combats the financing of terrorism. He also insists to recognize the Russian Federation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
Category:1989 births
Category:People from Vinnytsia Oblast