Oksana Zholnovych took over as the head of "The Razumkov Center".
Oksana Zolnovych, a lawyer, lecturer at the Lviv University, and former Minister of Social Policy, has become the director of the Alexander Razumkov Center for Economic and Political Studies. The research center was founded in 1994.
Oksana Zolnovych, a lawyer, associate professor at Ivan Franko Lviv University, and former head of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, has become the director of the Alexander Razumkov Center for Economic and Political Studies.
Oksana Zholnovych was born in Lviv in 1979. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and specializes in labor law. Until 2019, the lawyer was a member of the Council of Lawyers of the Lviv region and worked on protecting labor and family rights.
Oksana Zholnovych began her political career in 2014 when she ran for parliament on the list of the "Strength of People" party. In 2015, she also ran for the position of mayor of Lviv and for seats on the regional and city councils. From July 2022 to July 2025, Oksana Zholnovych headed the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine in the government of Denys Shmyhal.
The Alexander Razumkov Center was founded in 1994. It conducts research in the areas of domestic, foreign, social, and economic policy, state administration, energy, land relations, national security and defense, and international and regional security. The center's experts share the values of democracy and the rule of law, the protection of human rights and freedoms, the responsibility of the state towards society, and the active participation of citizens in determining the main principles and priorities of state policy. Previously, the Center was led by politician Pavlo Pyzynyk.