Hanna Maliar
Lawyer, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Hanna Vasylivna Maliar (Ukrainian: Ганна Василівна Маляр; born 28 July 1978) is a Ukrainian lawyer and educator who served as one of the several Deputy Ministers of Defense under Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal from 4 August 2021 until 18 September 2023. A graduate of the International Institute of Linguistics and Law in Kyiv, she was a docent at the same institute before she began working for the state.
Early life and education
Hanna Maliar was born on 28 July 1978 in Kyiv, which was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. She graduated from Kyiv's International Institute of Linguistics and Law in 2000. She earned the right to practice law in 2007.
Career
In 2010, Maliar worked at the State Research Institute of Customs Affairs as deputy head of the Department of Legal Issues.
From 2013 to 2020, she taught at the National School of Judges of Ukraine in the field of criminal-legal qualification of aggressive war and other crimes committed in war zones.
In 2018, she was a trainer of strategic communications units of the Security Service of Ukraine.
Since 2020, she has been a freelance consultant to the (national parliament of Ukraine) Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence.
In the 2020 Kyiv local elections Maliar unsuccessfully tried to be elected into the Kyiv City Council as a candidate for (the government party) Servant of the People.
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