Inna Sovsun

Following the fall of the Yanukovych government in 2014 and the appointment of Serhiy Kvit as minister of education, Sovsun was hired as first deputy minister of education[10] at the age of 29, the youngest deputy minister in the history of Ukraine's government.[11] This choice was considered a "shock appointment" due to her lack of political experience.[12]

From March 2014 to August 2016, Inna Sovsun held the position of Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. With her active support the Law on Higher Education was implemented, which expanded the autonomy of higher education institutions, ensured compliance with academic integrity, introduced a new model of university funding, and others.

From 2015-2016, Sovsun was involved in drafting a law that would reform standards for pre-higher education, allowing for future graduates to attend the first year of European universities immediately after school. However, some of the proposed reforms were also criticized because they would have resulted in the firing of "at least ten thousand" teachers, the shuttering of small rural schools, and the streaming of some students away from higher academic education and towards vocational training.[13]

She was also responsible for international cooperation, cooperation with the Parliament and other authorities. Among other achievements there are higher Ukraine’s involvement in Erasmus+ program, Ukraine’s participation in PISA 2018, and improved university enrollment process.

In September 2016, Inna Sovsun joined the team of the Kyiv School of Economics. As Vice President, she was responsible for the active role of KSE in promoting reforms in higher education and developed a new area of KSE activity - training of specialists in the field of public administration. Inna was the ideological inspirer and head of the Master's Program in Public Policy and Governance at the Kyiv School of Economics, the first group of which began her studies in October 2017. This educational program prepares specialists of the new formation for effective governance of the country. A key feature of the program is the emphasis on policy development and analytics skills that effective public managers should have.

Candidate for Ukrainian Parliament Member from the “Holos” party during the 2019 parliamentary elections, № 16 on the list. The deputy head of the “Holos” party, a member of the political council, heads the party's program activities, and was actively involved in the 2020 local election campaign. Inna is a member of the Committee on Energy, Housing and Utilities Services of the Verkhovna Rada, since May 2020.

Co-chair of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Kingdom of Sweden.

As Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun focuses on the following:

• Renewable energy development in Ukraine, as well as European Green Deal implementation in Ukraine. Inna supports refusal from coal power plants and coal production in Ukraine, which should be substituted by renewables.
• Quality changes in the educational system in Ukraine: improving the quality of educational literature, pre-school education; internship for physicians;
• LGBTQI+ community support, gender equality in Ukraine.

In 2015, Sovsun was involved in an incident where an assailant shot at her official car.[14] The assailant, who was a police officer from the Donetsk region, opened fire from the 4th floor of a residential building.[15] Sovsun was in her office at the time and did not sustain any injuries during the incident.[16]

She is currently in a relationship with Oleksandr Linchevskyy and raising her son, Martyn.[17][18]