Iryna Sysoyenko

Iryna Sysoyenko (Ukrainian: Ірина Володимирівна Сисоєнко; born March 6, 1982) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. She is a former National Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) representing the Samopomich (Self Reliance) party.

Iryna Sysoienko
Ірина Сисоєнко
Iryna Sysoienko in October 2018
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014[1]  24 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1982-06-03) 3 June 1982
Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Political partySamopomich (Self Reliance)

Early life and education

Iryna Sysoienko was born on March 6, 1982, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.[2][3] 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, Sysoienko 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, Sysoienko and Partners.[4]

In 2014, Sysoienko became a lecturer in Civil Law at Kyiv Law University of the Academy of Arts in Ukraine. She is the author of numerous articles[5] and publications on copyright, intellectual property, unfair competition, protection of rights themes and medical law.[6] Sysoienko 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.[2]

Sysoienko again took part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time for the party Strength and Honor.[7] But in the election the party won 3.82%, not enough to clear the 5% election threshold and thus no parliamentary seats.[8]

Career in academia

Sysoienko 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 of 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.

References

  1. CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
    Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014)
  2. "Сисоєнко Ірина Володимирівна" [Iryna Volodymyrivna Sysoyenko] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada website.
  3. "Iryna Sysoyenko". Self Reliance. 10 September 2014.
  4. "Babych, Sysoyenko and Partners". Archived from the original on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2014-11-25.
  5. "Taxes for the victory". epravda.com.ua. 13 August 2014.
  6. "Results of the second annual conference". med-info.net.ua. 30 October 2012.
  7. "Leader of Strength and Honor party Smeshko names first ten leaders on list of candidates in parliamentary election".
  8. CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
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