Ljudmila Suprun

Birthdate: 01.07.1965

Ljudmila Pavlovna Suprun - Ukrainian politician, leader of the People's Democratic Party of Ukraine. From 1998 to 2006, she was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament. Honored economist of Ukraine, Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Place of birth. Education. Born in Zaporizhia. In 1982, she graduated from school with a gold medal and began studying at the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. After graduating as a lawyer, she worked as a legal advisor in a company while simultaneously starting a PhD program at the Institute of State and Law of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Department of International Law and Comparative Analysis).

Career. Since 1989, Ljudmila Suprun worked as the youngest research associate at the Ukrainian Institute of Agrarian Radiology.

1992-1993 - Senior researcher in international law at the Institute of State and Law of the Verkhovna Rada.

In 1993, she became the president of the Business Cooperation Association 'Interagro'.

Political career. In March 1998, she was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada. She was the chair of the subcommittee on revenues of the state budget of the parliamentary committee on budget. As a member of the People's Democratic Party, she belonged to the NDP faction and was its authorized representative.

In 2002, she was re-elected as a deputy, this time in the multi-mandate constituency (from the list of the electoral bloc of political parties For a United Ukraine!). In the Verkhovna Rada, she was the deputy chair of the budget committee, and from September 2005, she was the acting head of this committee.

In the 2006 elections, she ran for the Verkhovna Rada in the 1st place on the list of the bloc of People's Democratic Parties, but the bloc could not overcome the 3% threshold. Afterwards, the NDP leader, former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoytenko, resigned as party chairman, and Ljudmila Suprun took over this position.

In the early parliamentary elections in 2007, the NDP and its chairman planned to enter into strategic alliances with the People's Party of former parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn. However, the politicians could not agree on the distribution of places in the upper half of the general electoral list. Ultimately, based on the NDP with the inclusion of 16 more political forces, the Block of Ukrainian Regional Activists was created. However, the block failed to enter Parliament (received about 0.34% of the votes).

In 2010, Ljudmila Suprun unsuccessfully ran for the presidency.

From October 2009 to March 2010, she was the head of the State Agency for Investment and Innovations.

Titles and awards. Honored economist of Ukraine (2006).

Social engagement. Ljudmila Suprun is the chairwoman of the board of the Ukrainian World Peace Fund, deputy speaker of the Civil Parliament of Women of Ukraine, president of the Ukrainian Figure Skating Association (until 2012).

Family. Married. The couple has two daughters - Tatyana (1986) and Wladislawa (2001).

27.12.2023