Ołeh Hawasz

Date of Birth: 24.11.1958

Ołeh Ołodarowicz Hawasz - Ambassador of Ukraine to Slovakia (2010-2016), Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration (2005-2010).

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Mukachevo in the Transcarpathian region. In 1982, he graduated from Uzhhorod State University, obtaining qualifications as a mathematics teacher.

Career. 1976-1983 - laboratory technician, educator, mathematics teacher at Secondary School No. 1 in Mukachevo.

1983-1985 - Deputy Director for Educational and Scientific Affairs at Secondary School No. 4 in Mukachevo.

1985-1986 - Inspector of the Municipal Department of Education in Mukachevo.

1986-1994 - Director of Secondary School No. 1 named after Pushkin in Mukachevo.

1994-1998 - Director of Primary and Secondary School No. 13 in Mukachevo.

1998-1999 - Head of the Municipal Department of Education in Mukachevo.

1999-2000 - Head of the Department of Education and Science in the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration.

2000-2001 - Deputy Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Viktor Baloga.

From April to September 2001 - Chairman of the District Council of Vinogradiv in the Transcarpathian region.

2002-2003 - First Deputy Mayor, Acting Mayor of Mukachevo.

2003-2005 - Assistant Consultant to a Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

From February to October 2005 - Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Baloga.

From October 2005 to March 2010 - Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration.

On September 16, 2010, by decree of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Slovakia.

On June 3, 2016, Petro Poroshenko dismissed Ołeh Hawasz from the position of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Slovakia. The dismissal of Hawasz was related to the disclosure of smuggling of cigarettes by minivans of the embassy.

Civic Activity. Deputy of the Transcarpathian Regional Council of the IV convocation.

Awards. Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine (2005).

06.11.2023.