Lubkivskyi Markiyan

Date of birth: 02.09.1971

Place of birth. Education. Born in Lviv. In 1993, he graduated from I. Franko Lviv National University (Philological Faculty, Slavic Languages and Literature). He speaks English, Croatian, Serbian, and Polish.

Career. 1995-1996 - Attaché in the Europe and America Committee of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1996-1999 - Attaché, 3rd Secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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From February 2000 - 2nd Secretary of the Office for Political Analysis and Planning of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From February 2001 to December 2001 - 2nd Secretary, from December 2001 - 1st Secretary in the Cabinet of the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

From February 2003 - acting head of the Press and Information Department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from August 2004 - head of the Press and Information Department, spokesperson of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From March to December 2005 - Deputy Secretary of State of Ukraine (Oleh Rybachuk, Oleksandr Zinchenko).

From December 2005 to December 2006 - Advisor to the Ukrainian President (Viktor Yushchenko) - Head of the Main Department for Humanitarian Policy of the Presidential Office.

From December 2006 to May 2009 - Supervisory and Full Powers Ambassador of Ukraine to Croatia.

From September 2007 to May 2009 - Supervisory and Full Powers Ambassador of Ukraine to Bosnia and Herzegovina concurrently.

From July 2009 - Director of the UEFA Euro 2012 Tournament in Ukraine.

From 2012 to 2014, he headed the Organizing Committee of EuroBasket 2015.

In September 2014, he became an advisor to the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine. In this position, he is responsible for the information policy and public relations of the SBU, coordinating the communication of Ukrainian intelligence with domestic media and the international community. In June 2015, after the resignation of Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, he left the post of advisor to the head of the SBU.

In 2015, he, along with Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, founded the party 'Justice' and became a member of the party political council.

In 2019, he was nominated in the extraordinary parliamentary elections on the list of the 'Bat'kivshchyna' party, but his place on the list (No. 30) was non-electable.

Awards. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the 1st Class (2007).

Family. Married. He has a son and a daughter.

02.09.2022