Vasilii Kostitsky
- Date of Birth: 20.06.1956
Place of Birth. Education.
Born in the village of Zarechye in the Nadvorniansky District of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. In 1978, he graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (specialization - Law). In 1985, he successfully completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, defending his doctoral thesis. In 1990 - Lviv Forestry Institute (Economic Informatics).
Career.
1978-1987 - Worked at the Lviv Oblast Committee.
1991-1993 - Deputy Minister of Ecology of Ukraine, Senior Advisor of Ukraine on Environmental Issues at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Geneva, Switzerland).
1993-1994 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the I Convocation. Combined deputy activity with the position of head of the Department of Theory of State and Law at W.K. Stefanyk Prykarpattya National University (1993-1995).
1994-1998 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the II Convocation. Member of the Committee on Women's, Mother's, and Children's Affairs under the President of Ukraine (1995-1996). Advisor to the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma (1997-2000).
1998-2002 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the III Convocation. At the time of the elections - member of the People's Christian Union Party. Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada. Representative of Ukraine in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1996-2002). Vice President of the European People's Party faction in PACE (1998-2002).
1999-2001 - Director of the Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine.
After 2002, he worked as Deputy Chairman of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the National Mortgage Institution.
After his work at the National Mortgage Institution, he became head of the Research Center for Tax Issues at the National University of State Tax Service of Ukraine, Director of the Law Institute 'Institute of Air and Space Law'.
In June 2008, the government of Yulia Tymoshenko appointed him chairman of the National Expert Commission on Public Morality.
On March 31, 2015, the government of Ukraine relieved Vasily Kostitsky of his duties as head of the National Expert Commission of Ukraine for Public Morality.
Scientific Work.
Author of 17 monographs, over 200 scientific papers, books, and brochures on legal, ecological, economic, and social topics.
Awards.
Doctor of Law. Awarded the Order 'For Merit' II and III Degrees.
Family.
Vasilii Kostitsky is married. He has three children.
18.06.2021