Markiyan Malsky


Markiyan Markiyanovych Malsky is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. He is a former Governor of Lviv Oblast.

Biography

He is the son of diplomat Markiyan Malsky.

Education

From 2001 to 2006, he studied at the University of Lviv, where he obtained his Master of International Economic Relations and Master of Law diplomas. He also studied at Stockholm University and at the World Trade Institute . In 2012, Malskyy received a PhD in Law from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, thesis "Arbitration agreement as a precondition of dispute resolution in international commercial arbitration".
He was an assistant at the Lviv Polytechnic.

Career

Legal career

Prior to joining Arzinger, Markian Malskyy worked as a lawyer in the international arbitration team at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris. He has been Head of Arzinger’s Western Ukrainian Branch in Lviv since 2009.
He has vast experience in resolving corporate disputes in the energy sector, contractual disputes, sales and services, real estate & construction disputes, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, real estate and M&A transactions. He was engaged in the settlement of over 300 disputes, including under the ICSID, ICC, SCC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICAC rules.
From 2016 to 2019, he served as the Honorary Consul of Austria in Lviv.

Public Service

In 2014 won public competition for the post of the Head of the Main Department of the State Fiscal Service in Lviv region. Though after the interview with Roman Nasirov Markian Malskyy declined the offer to head the Department due to the differences in vision of development and goals of the Fiscal Service.
In June 2019, President Zelensky nominated Malskyy' as candidate for the post of the Headof the Lviv Regional State Administration for public discussion. At first, Malsky refused, saying that he did not want to leave the post of Honorary consul of Austria and that he was working on his doctoral thesis. But after receiving great support in public discussion, he agreed.
On 5 July 2019 Zelensky officially appointed Malsky to the post of the Head of the LODA, and on December 24, during a meeting of the Community andTerritories Development Council, announced his dismissal from office. Malsky also announced his dismissal on social media and briefly summarized the results of his work during his term as the Head of LODA. Was officially dismissed from the post on 26 December 2019.

Membership in professional organizations and associations

Member of:
Recommended arbitrator:
He is the author of four books, more than 100 scientific papers and more than 300 articles and commentaries.
Author of books:
Married, has two sons. Wife - Dr. Malska Andriana, Assistant Professor at Department of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.
Markian Malskyy speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, German and Polish languages, has basic knowledge of French.