Ivanna Klimpush-Tsintsadze
Date of birth: 07.05.1972
Ivanna Orestivna Klimpush, in marriage Klimpush-Tsintsadze – people's deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation from the party European Solidarity. Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine (2016-2019).
Place of birth. Education. Born in Kyiv. In 1992, she completed a training course at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Summer School, Harvard University, USA. In 1994, she graduated from the National Pedagogical University named after Dragomanov with a degree in defectology and speech therapy.
From 1993 to 1994, she studied at the Montana State University (USA), specializing in international relations and international law. In 1998, she graduated with honors from the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National University named after Shevchenko with a degree in 'International Relations'.
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Fluent in English, Georgian, Polish, and Hungarian.
Career. She began her career as a speech therapist in a children's clinic.
1994-1999 – project manager, head of the international relations department at the Ukrainian Independent Centre for Political Research.
1999-2002 – project manager at the Kyiv Center of the East-West Institute, in 2001-2002 – acting director of the Kyiv Center.
2002-2007 – correspondent for the Ukrainian service of the BBC in the USA (Washington) and in the Caucasus (Tbilisi).
2007-2009 – deputy director for programs of the international charitable organization Ukrainian International Cooperation Support Foundation (Open Ukraine Foundation), from 2009 to 2011 – director of this charitable foundation.
Since 2011 – director of the charitable organization Yalta European Strategy.
Political career. In the early elections in the autumn of 2014, she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation from the lists of Petro Poroshenko Bloc (under No. 61). First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Foreign Affairs. Non-partisan.
On April 14, 2016, the Verkhovna Rada released Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk from office, supporting the candidacy of Volodymyr Groysman to replace him. On the same day, the parliament approved the new Cabinet of Ministers, in which Klimpush-Tsintsadze received the position of Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.
Member of the board of the public organization Ukrainian Media Center (Ukrainian Crisis Media Center).
In the early parliamentary elections of 2019 she was elected as a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation from the list of European Solidarity, No. 10 in the party list. Head of the Committee on Integration with the European Union in the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation.
Family. Married, has two daughters - Solomiya and Melania.
27.11.2023.