Maksym Zinoviyovych Kozytskyy ( uk, Максим Зіновійович Козицький, born on 19 February 1981) is a Ukrainian

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, and Governor of Lviv Regional State Administration as of 5 February 2020. Between 1998—2004, he studied to become a surgeon at

Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University ( la, Universitatis Medicinalis Leopoliensis), ( uk, Львiвський Національний Медичний Унiверситет iм. Данила Галицького) — formerly known ...

. In September 2007 Kozytskyy occupied different positions in energy companies such as Ukrnaftogazinvest LLC and Precarpathian Energy Company LLC. In October 2016 he took the position of CEO of Eco-Optima LLC.

Politics

In 2015, Kozytskyy stood for election to the Lviv Regional Council for the political party «

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», but he was not accepted to the council. In the summer of 2019, he was a candidate for the position of the Governor of Lviv regional state administration (LRSA) together with

Markiyan Malsky Markiyan Markiyanovych Malsky ( ua, Маркіян Маркіянович Мальський; born 11 December 1984) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. He was Governor of Lviv Oblast (from 5 July till 26 December 2019). Biography He is the ...

and

Denys Shmyhal Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal ( uk, Денис Анатолійович Шмигаль; born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who is the current Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2020. Prior to his appointment as prime ...

but did not get the position. However, in December 2019 Malsky announced his dismissal and Maksym Kozytskyy was approved by the Government of Ukraine for the position of the Governor of LRSA. On February 5, 2020 the President of Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

signed an order approve Maksym Kozytskyy as the Governor of Lviv Regional State Administration. At the same time, Kozytskyy became the chief of Lviv Regional Organization of the political party

Servant of the People Servant of the People (SN; uk, Слуга народу, Sluha narodu, ) is a liberal, centrist, pro-European political party in Ukraine. It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previousl ...

. In October 2020 Kozytskyy was the first in the party list of

at the elections to the Lviv Regional Council and the party obtained 9 seats, thus, becoming second major party in the Lviv regional council.

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