Іhor Ostash — Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine
Ihor Ostash is a diplomat, politician, and scholar. He was born on August 4, 1959, in the village of Duliby, Stryi District, L’viv Region, Ukraine.
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| 2006 – 2011 | Diplomatic Career: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Canada and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). |
| 2016 – 2022 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Lebanon. |
| 2023 – 2024
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Ambassador-at-Large, Department of Public Diplomacy. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. |
| 16 October 2025 | Appointed Director of the Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. |
| 1994 – 2006 | Parliamentary Service: Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Convocations II–IV). Convocation II — Secretary of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Convocation III — Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Chair of the Ukraine–Australia Interparliamentary Friendship Group. |
| 1999 – 2005 | Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. |
| 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 | Head of the OSCE Special Election Observation Missions during elections in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia. |
| 2003 | Chair of the Temporary Parliamentary Commission on Ensuring Parliamentary Oversight of Ukraine’s State Border Regime in the area of Tuzla Island. |
| 1983 – 1988 | Academic and Research Career: Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. |
| 1988 – 1991 | Academic Secretary of the Division of Literature, Language, and Arts, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. |
| 1990 | Vice President of the Republican Association of Ukrainian Studies. |
| 1991 – 1994 | Director of the International School of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. |
| 1977 – 1982 | Education: Faculty of Philology, Ivan Franko National University of L’viv (Slavic Philology). |
| 1982 – 1985 | Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Awarded the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences (PhD equivalent) in 1986. |
| 1993 | Postdoctoral studies at Harvard University, USA. |
| 1994 – 1998 | Faculty of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. |
Publications, Languages, Marital Status:
Parliamentary Diplomacy: A Collection of Articles, Speeches, and Interviews (2007).
Bondi, or the Return of Bohdan Vesolovskyi (2013; second edition — 2025).
Compiler and author of the foreword to The Book of the Honest and Immaculate Gospel, the Lamp That Shines and Illuminates (2021).
Languages: English, French, Arabic, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian.
Married to writer Maryna Hrymych. Has a daughter, Nataliia, and a son, Danylo.