Roman Matys
Roman Yevhenovych Matys (; born July 28, 1978) is a Ukrainian activist and business consultant. He has been the Head of the Investment Department of the Lviv Regional State Administration since 2016. Education. Roman Matys graduated from Lviv Secondary Specialized School № 93. In 2000 he got the qualification of economist at the Lviv Academy of Commerce. Career. Roman Matys is an advisor to the chairman and head of the Department of Investment Policy in Lviv Regional State Administration. Roman Matys has been the head of the investment policy department of the Lviv Regional State Administration since 2016. For  the last four years, Lviv Region has been using the strategy “Lviv Region - Factory of Europe” developed and implemented for attracting investments and supporting existing business. The implementation of this strategy allowed to launch 336 production facilities in the Lviv region over four years, with over 27,000 new jobs created. Today, with the aim of opening and expanding production capacities, the Department provides support to another 580 investment projects of various sizes, which will create thousands of jobs for the region. The Roman Matys Department of Investment Policy has prepared many appeals and letters to MPs and committees of the  Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, with recommendations of legislative changes, which speeded up the voting procedure for legislative acts that simplified procedures for attracting investments and facilitated active business development in the region Roman Matys developing a branch of BPO and SSC centers in Lviv, which has the potential of tens of thousands of jobs. The Veon Global Service Center was opened in Lviv in 2016 to handle finance, procurement and HR processes. In 2018, within the framework of the investment attraction strategy for the city of Lviv, the Center for International Audit Company PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the Big Four Audit  Companies, was opened. The Center performs a wide range of professional assignments for PwC audit, tax and advisory projects in Central and Eastern Europe. The Center employs more than 350 employees. According to Roman Matys vision, the city of Lviv has the prospect of creating an additional 100 000 new jobs. The main driving force should be students and young professionals. Public activity. Roman Matys is the founder of the public initiative “They'll Understand Either Way”, which since 2012 defends the rights of Ukrainian-speaking population to access information in their native language. Roman Matys is the initiator and  co-author of the Law No. 5670-d “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as State language" In 2016, at the initiative of Roman Matys and with the support of the People's Deputies, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on European Integration held committee hearings on "Ukrainian language in the context of European integration: challenges and answers", which became the first step towards the creation and registration of the new “Law on State language”. This was the first step towards creating and registering a new "Law on the state language". It is worth noting that such a  scenario at that time seemed impossible or unlikely to almost all participants in the Committee hearings. After a series of meetings and discussions, in June 2016, the coordination Council for the use of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of public life in Ukraine was established, which included a number of experts and public activists who deal with language issues, including Roman Matys In the course of lengthy discussions within the working group on ways to develop the draft law, all participants eventually supported the idea Of Roman Matys to take as a basis the draft law "On the functioning  of the Ukrainian language as a state language and the use of other languages in Ukraine" developed by Serhiy Holovaty. On January 19, 2017, the draft law on the state language, developed by experts and public activists, was registered in the Verkhovna Rada under the number 5670. Subsequently, after active discussions, on October 4, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted bill 5670-d in the first reading, Since 2018, Roman Matys has been a member of the jury of the CEE Business Services Awards (awarding the best locations and companies in the field of remote services). Roman Matys Roman