Sasha Borovik

Sasha Borovik
Саша Боровик
Personal details
Born (1968-04-07) 7 April 1968
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

Oleksandr "Sasha" Borovik (Ukrainian: Олександр Боровик (Саша Боровик)) is a German lawyer. He is an adviser to the governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikheil Saakashvili.

Personal life

Born in Lviv on 7 April 1968,[1] Borovik studied at Lviv University's Faculty of Foreign Languages until spring 1990 when he decided to move to Prague, Czechoslovakia.[2] After studying at Prague University,[3] he went on to graduate from Harvard Law School.[4]

Borovik is a German citizen.[5] He was granted Ukrainian citizenship in early March 2015 by president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.[6]

Career

Borovik joined a law firm which worked with the Czech government on preparations to join the European Union.[3] He later worked as the head lawyer for Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector organization in Seattle.[7][4] In March 2014, he moved to London and became Akamai Technologies' EMEA general counsel.[4]

From March to mid-May 2015, Borovik worked as an adviser at Ukraine's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.[8] In June 2015, the governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikheil Saakashvili, appointed him as his adviser.[9][10] Having declined to give up his German citizenship after a law banning state officials from having any citizenship other than Ukrainian came into effect on 1 May 2016, Borovik resigned from the post of Odessa Regional Administration deputy head on 4 May 2016.[5] He remained Saakashvili's advisor.[5]

In the October 2015 Odessa mayoral election Borovik was the Petro Poroshenko Bloc's (PBB) candidate for the mayor of Odessa.[11] Incumbent mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov defeated him with 52.9% against 25.7% in the first round of the mayoral election.[11] In the simultaneously-held local election he appeared as number one on the PBB's electoral list and was elected into Odessa's city council.[1][5]

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