Lubomyra Mandziy
Lubomyra Stepanivna Mandziy (Ukrainian: Любомира Степанівна Мандзій; 10 May 1973 – 27 November 2021) was a Ukrainian educator and civil servant. On 25 March 2020, she was appointed as acting Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.[2][3] Early lifeMandziy was born on 10 May 1973 in the village Opaka, Ukraine located in Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.[4] She graduated from geography faculty of the University of Lviv.[4] From 1998 to 2001 she studied at the graduate school of the University of Lviv.[4] In 2003, Mandziy became Candidate of Political Sciences.[5][4] In 2008 she received the academic title of associate professor.[4] From 2001 to 2016, she worked at the University of Lviv at the Department of Political Science.[4][1] CareerIn 2015, Mandziy ran for the Lviv Oblast Council in constituency number 8 for the party Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[6] But she was not elected.[6] From 2016 to 2019, she headed the Department of Education and Science at the Lviv Oblast State Administration.[1] In September 2019, Mandziy was appointed Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.[7] On 25 March 2020, she was appointed the Acting Minister after the resignation of her predecessor Hanna Novosad.[2][3][4] On 17 December 2020, parliament appointed Serhiy Shkarlet, as Minister of Education and Science.[8] Personal lifeMandziy spoke English and was fluent in Polish.[9] She was married to Taras Mandziy; the couple had a son who was named after his father Taras.[9] She owned 50% of the shares of Lviv Plant of Reinforced Concrete Products №2, with her husband owning the other 50%.[9] Mandziy died on 27 November 2021, at the age of 48.[4] Mandziy's Facebook page posted a message from her family stating that she "had been battling a serious illness for the past year and a half", but no cause of death was given.[10][4] See alsoReferences
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