Ksenia Lyapina

Date of Birth: 05.05.1964

Place of Birth. Education. Born on May 5, 1964, in Kiev. Graduate of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in Applied Mathematics (1987) and the Kiev National Economic University (Legal Regulation of the Economy, 2002).

Career. From 1987 to 1992, Lyapina worked as a mathematics engineer at the software company Octava in the capital. In the next five years, she was a research assistant at the Laboratory of Information Processing Systems of the Scientific Center for Radiation Medicine of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine. At the same time (1993-1998), she was the financial director at TOOLe Ltd. From 1996 to 2000, she headed the analytical group of the Information Center of the Association for the Promotion of the Development of Private Entrepreneurship 'Edinenie' and coordinated the work of the analytical group of the Coordination and Expert Center of the Association of Entrepreneurs of Ukraine. From 2000 to 2005, she was the coordinator of the project of the Competitive Institute. From 2000 to 2001, she worked as an advisor to Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko for public affairs. She chaired the Entrepreneurial Council at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine - a prestigious advisory committee representing the interests of small and medium-sized businesses.

In 2002, Lyapina ran for Parliament in 88th place on the election list of the 'Our Ukraine' bloc. She only received the mandate of a deputy in April 2005, when she replaced a withdrawn member of the Our Ukraine faction. She worked on the Parliamentary Committee for Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship. In 2006, she was re-elected to Parliament - on the list of the same 'Our Ukraine', but already among the first ten candidates (7th place). Like most members of the parliamentary opposition, she resigned her mandate as a deputy in June 2007 to support the early dissolution of the fifth parliament of Ukraine. Soon after, she found herself among the top ten candidates on the electoral list of the Mega-Block of Democratic Forces, formed from the 'Our Ukraine' party and nine other political forces ('Our Ukraine - People's Defense').

Since December 2012, she has been a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the seventh convocation and was elected as a representative of Batkivshchyna in the single-mandate constituency No. 216 in Kyiv. Deputy chairwoman of the Committee on Economic Policy of the Verkhovna Rada. Member of the Special Control Commission for Privatization Issues.

In August 2014, she left Batkivshchyna and joined the Narodny Front party, for which she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the single-mandate constituency No. 216 in Kiev on October 26. In this election, the self-nominated Alexander Suprunenko came in first (24.46% or 19,897 votes), followed closely by Ksenia Lyapina (23.63%, 19,224 votes) and Petro Poroshenko bloc candidate Oleksiy Kucherenko (23.49%, 19,109 votes).

On January 9, 2015, the Ukrainian Cabinet appointed Ksenia Lyapina as the chairperson of the State Regulatory Service.

On October 9, 2019, the Ukrainian Cabinet dismissed Ksenia Lyapina from the position of chairperson of the State Regulatory Service.

Views and Activities. Throughout her public engagement and the comparatively short time among the most notable domestic politicians, Lyapina, a consistent advocate for a liberal economy, became a recognized authority on regulatory policy and the development of entrepreneurship in Ukraine. At various times, she worked on draft laws such as 'On the System of State Registration of Business Entities', 'On the Licensing of Certain Types of Economic Activities', 'On Microcrediting of Small Businesses', 'On the National Development Program for Small Enterprises', and a series of other similar legal acts. She was engaged as a consultant on the 'Regulatory Reform in Ukraine' project of the U.S. Agency for International Development, led trainings within the framework of the well-known international project 'BIZPRO', and others. She often writes analytical and expert articles for business publications.

Lyapina strongly criticized the government of Viktor Yanukovych, which hurried to dissolve the entrepreneurial council operating under its leadership but failed to create an effective alternative. She loudly voiced her dissatisfaction with the regional government regarding the proposed draft tax code, which, in her opinion, would only fuel the shadow economy. The major problem areas highlighted by the politician include again the ambiguities in VAT refunds to investors, the list of local taxes and fees, the controversial approach to land and property taxation, as well as the dubious scheme for simplified taxation.

Lyapina's 'dissatisfaction with the government's refusal to organize the state procurement systems' also provoked sharp criticism. In her opinion, the Ukrainian Procurement Chamber has unjustly expanded its powers: the development of the rules of the game should be taken over by the government, and the functions of the TPU should be limited exclusively to public control over the process.

Family. Husband - Dmitry Lyapin, employee of the National Institute for Strategic Studies. She has a son and a daughter. She has grandchildren.

05.05.2022