It became known which areas will be supervised by Alyona Shkrum at the Ministry of Community Development
11 December 11:38
Former MP Alyona Shkrum, who has become First Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, has told us what areas she will work in the ministry. She wrote about this on her Facebook page, according to Komersant ukrainskyi.
According to the newly appointed official, she has been in office since the beginning of this week and has already faced new challenges in project management, people management, and systematizing a large number of urgent tasks at the same time.
At the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, Shkrum will oversee two areas:
- international cooperation and European integration;
- investment projects with a focus on energy efficiency.
“The Ministry of Communities and Territories Development is the largest ministry in the history of Ukraine in terms of the policies it develops and the areas it is responsible for. It is also the largest ministry in terms of its portfolio of international projects, aid, investments, reconstruction of our country, and other programs: from protecting critical infrastructure to rebuilding. So this is a very difficult challenge for me,”
– shkrum wrote.
According to the official, during the full-scale war, she was most involved in international cooperation, parliamentary diplomacy, and attracting donors for Ukraine’s recovery projects. Therefore, Shkrum is convinced that she will cope with the challenges and be effective.
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What we know about Alyona Shkrum
In 2008-2009, she was a junior lawyer at Volkov, Koziakov and Partners. She also worked as a director of the Ukraine 2020 think tank.
In 2010-2011, she was an associate at the Paris Bar Association Chevalier Pericard Connesson.
From 2010 to 2012, she worked as a paralegal and lawyer at the London and Paris bar associations, and was a judge’s assistant at the London Court of Justice.
In 2014, she worked as an advocacy expert at the Right to Protection NGO.
In the seventh convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, she was a paid assistant to Iryna Gerashchenko (UDAR) and Ihor Alekseev (CPU).
Member of Parliament of the 8th convocation, elected from Batkivshchyna (No. 5 on the list) as a non-partisan. Head of the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Service in Local Self-Government Bodies of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government. She is a member of the Eurooptimists and Equal Opportunities NGOs.
In 2019, she was elected as a Member of Parliament of the 9th convocation from the Batkivshchyna party, number 22 on the list as a member of the party. She is a member of the faction of the same name. Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy.
