Olga Bielkova

Bielkova holds a master's degree of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2011), a law degree from the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (2001) and a degree in economics from the Cherkassy State Engineering University (1997).

Before elections in 2012 Bielkova was the managing partner of EastLabs Company. Her main focus in EastLabs was looking for new teams to finance and creating new development programs for the teams. Previously, she worked as the International Projects Director with executive management team for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Bielkova led projects for Ukraine's integration into the global community, supervised the international grant-making activity, and worked closely with well-known international organizations. Bielkova managed a private project called WorldWideStudies, which grants master's degree scholarships in leading universities outside Ukraine to young talented Ukrainian students.

On 12 November 2012 Bielkova took the oath of the Member of Parliament of Ukraine and started to work with a Parliamentary faction of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko.

In 2012—2014 Olga served as member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Finance and Banking, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the functioning of payment systems and e-commerce, member of the Special Control Commission on Privatization.

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bielkova was again re-elected into parliament; this time after placing 47th on the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc[2] and holds position of a Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada's Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety.[3]

Bielkova took part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for the party "Fatherland".[4] She was elected to parliament (as number 17 of the party's election list).[5] On 18 June 2020 her parliamentary mandate was terminated at her own request.[1]

Legal initiatives to which Olga Bielkova is an initiator or a principal contributor, that became laws:[6]

Draft Law of Ukraine “On natural gas market”, which is a framework law for the sector that establishes qualitatively new rules to gas market. The aim is to create a transparent, competitive and effective gas market in line with the principles of the Third Energy Package: choice of the natural gas supplier and market pricing. One considerable achievement is the functional separation of transportation segments from gas extraction and sales, which increases competitiveness and introduces the clear rules for all market players. At the same time as the gas price hikes, the Cabinet of Ministers introduced a new system of targeted social assistance for the least protected groups of consumers.

Draft Law of Ukraine "On transparency of mining industry”: allows to fulfill the requirements of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative - namely, to disclose the funds paid by the companies in the field of extraction and transportation of oil and gas to the budgets of different levels, and also the income received by the state from the activities of these companies as well as information on their activity and the license holders.

Draft Law of Ukraine “On amending the legislation of Ukraine on taxation of hydrocarbons production": provided taxation policy aimed on enhancing natural gas production by increasing volumes of gas produced domestically. This bill introduced specific fiscal rates for new wells (12% or 6% of rental payments depending on the depth of well) to promote an investment.

Draft Law of Ukraine “On reallocation of royalties from O&G to local communities": assigning 5% of royalties from oil&gas industry(approx. USD 2 billion per year) as an additional income of municipal budgets of the territories, where extraction takes place.

Draft Law of Ukraine “On deregulation in O&G industry": simplifies the land legislation and improves regulatory regime for oil & gas industry in order to eliminate the outdated and bureaucratic regulatory system (2–3 years to get all necessary permissions) and boost development of new wells.

Draft Law of Ukraine “On the National Energy Regulatory Commission of Ukraine": reinforces and unifies the regulation of all natural monopolies in one regulator that controls pricing of services, ensuring a balance of interests between producers, consumers, and state. It should guarantee reliable supply to consumers at fair prices, while making sure that the natural monopolies can make sufficient profits to be able to develop.

• Verkhovna Rada
• Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR)
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Personal blog — LB.ua
• Olga Bielkova's Blog on The Huffington Post (in English)
• Publications on KyivPost (in English)
• Publications on Euractiv (in English)