Valeriy Sushkevych
Valeriy Sushkevych is a Ukrainian politician and public figure. Member of Verhovna Rada. President of the National Committee of Sports for the Disabled of Ukraine, head of the Ukrainian public socio-political association "National Assembly of Disabled of Ukraine", president of the Association "Sports Industry of Ukraine."
Disabled from childhood, moved in a wheelchair.Biography
Although Sushkevych was born in Tarashcha in 1954, all his education and working career was in Dnipro. In 1976 Sushkevych graduated there from the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University with a degree in mathematics and computer programming. He worked in this field in various factories until 1992, when he was switched his career to civil servant in the "Department of Social Protection of the Population" in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast State Administration. Sushkevych worked in this department until 1998.
Prior to his career in national
politics Sushkevych had been from 1990 until 1994 a member of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council.
In the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Sushkevych was elected for Hromada. In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election for For United Ukraine!, although in parliament he joined the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Sushkevych was re-elected to parliament for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. And in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected to parliament for Batkivshchyna.
Sushkevych was on 23 May 2019 appointed Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by a decree of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
