Ruslan Stefanchuk

Ruslan Stefanchuk
Руслан Стефанчук
Stefanchuk in 2022
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
8 October 2021
Preceded byDmytro Razumkov
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
29 August 2019  8 October 2021
ChairmanDmytro Razumkov
Preceded byIryna Herashchenko
Succeeded byOleksandr Kornienko
Representative of the President to the Verkhovna Rada
In office
21 May 2019  7 October 2021
Preceded byIryna Lutsenko
Succeeded byFedir Venislavskyi
Personal details
Born (1975-10-29) 29 October 1975
Ternopil, Soviet Union
Political partyServant of the People
EducationKhmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Administration and Law
Khmelnytskyi National University

Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (Ukrainian: Руслан Олексійович Стефанчук; born 29 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer serving as the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada since October 2021.

Stefanchuk was touted as the ideologue of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's election campaign in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. He was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Servant of the People party (placed 2nd on the party list) in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Stefanchuk is one of the authors of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's 2019 election program. He was also the Representative of the President of Ukraine Zelenskyy at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) from 21 May 2019 until 7 October 2021, and is a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada since then.