Sasha Borovik
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| Саша Боровик | |
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7 April 1968 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Oleksandr "Sasha" Borovik (Ukrainian: Олександр Боровик (Саша Боровик)) is a German lawyer. He is an adviser to the governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikheil Saakashvili.
Personal life
Born in Lviv on 7 April 1968,[1] Borovik studied at Lviv University's Faculty of Foreign Languages until spring 1990 when he decided to move to Prague, Czechoslovakia.[2] After studying at Prague University,[3] he went on to graduate from Harvard Law School.[4]
Borovik is a German citizen.[5] He was granted Ukrainian citizenship in early March 2015 by president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.[6]
Career
Borovik joined a law firm which worked with the Czech government on preparations to join the European Union.[3] He later worked as the head lawyer for Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector organization in Seattle.[7][4] In March 2014, he moved to London and became Akamai Technologies' EMEA general counsel.[4]
From March to mid-May 2015, Borovik worked as an adviser at Ukraine's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.[8] In June 2015, the governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikheil Saakashvili, appointed him as his adviser.[9][10] Having declined to give up his German citizenship after a law banning state officials from having any citizenship other than Ukrainian came into effect on 1 May 2016, Borovik resigned from the post of Odessa Regional Administration deputy head on 4 May 2016.[5] He remained Saakashvili's advisor.[5]
In the October 2015 Odessa mayoral election Borovik was the Petro Poroshenko Bloc's (PBB) candidate for the mayor of Odessa.[11] Incumbent mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov defeated him with 52.9% against 25.7% in the first round of the mayoral election.[11] In the simultaneously-held local election he appeared as number one on the PBB's electoral list and was elected into Odessa's city council.[1][5]
References
- 1 2 (Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio, LIGA
- ↑ Doshchatov, Yuriy (18 February 2015). "Во власть войдет беглец из СССР". apostrophe.com.ua (in Russian).
- 1 2 Borovik, Sasha (12 May 2015). "Long Journey Back Home". voxukraine.org.
- 1 2 3 Borovik, Sasha (15 January 2015). "Ukraine Should Consider Default". voxukraine.org.
- 1 2 3 4 "Sasha Borovik resigns as Odesa Regional Administration deputy head". Interfax-Ukraine. 4 May 2016.
- ↑ "Vice Governor of Odesa Borovik quits civil service". UNIAN. 4 May 2016.
- ↑ Bonner, Brian (21 May 2015). "After firing, Borovik flags sluggish pace of reforms". Kyiv Post.
- ↑ Zawada, Zenon (22 May 2015). "IT lawyer leaves Cabinet, citing lack of strategy". ukrweekly.com.
- ↑ "Саакашвили возьмет помощником Сашу Боровика" [Saakashvili to enlist Borovik]. lb.ua (in Russian). 9 June 2015.
- ↑ Ragozin, Leonid (23 July 2015). "Georgia's ex-president wants to end a culture of corruption". bloomberg.com.
- 1 2 http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/299747.html