Yuliya Svitlychna

Yuliya Svitlychna
Юлія Світлична
Official portrait, 2017
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
13 April 2020
Governor of Kharkiv Oblast
In office
15 October 2016  6 November 2019
Preceded byIhor Rainin
Succeeded byOleksiy Kucher
Governor of Kharkiv Oblast (acting)
In office
29 August 2016  15 October 2016
Personal details
Born (1984-06-06) 6 June 1984
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Petro Poroshenko Bloc (2015–2019)

Yuliya Svitlychna (Ukrainian: Юлія Олександрівна Світлична, born 6 June 1984, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian politician. In a 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election by-election on 15 March 2020 Svitlychna was elected to Ukraine's parliament. From 15 October 2016 until 6 November 2019 she was the Governor of Kharkiv Oblast. Before this she was a Deputy of the Kharkiv Oblast Council of 7th convocation, vice president of the Chamber of Regions in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. Svitlychna has a PhD in state administration and was during her reign the youngest regional governor in Ukraine.