{{short description| Ukrainian politician}} {{family name hatnote|Valeriyivna|Babak|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Aliona Babak | native_name = {{nobold|Альона Бабак}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = File:Бабак Альона.jpg | image_size = | caption = Babak in 2015 | office1 = Minister for Communities and Territories Development | prime_minister1 = Oleksiy Honcharuk | term_start1 = 29 August 2019 | term_end1 = 4 February 2020 | predecessor1 = Hennadiy Zubko | successor1 = Denys Shmygal | office = People's Deputy of Ukraine | term_start = 27 November 2014 | term_end = 11 March 2017 | predecessor = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|9|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | party = Self Reliance | other_party = | children = | alma_mater = | website = }} '''Aliona Valeriyivna Babak''' ({{langx|uk|Альона Валеріївна Бабак}}, born September 27, 1969)<ref name=Rada-bio/> is a Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Regional Development.<ref name="cabappointBMRD">[https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2019/08/29/7224810/ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ)], Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)</ref> On 16 January 2020 she announced her resignation.<ref>[https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/babak-uhodit-dolzhnosti-glavy-minregiona-1579189997.html Babak is leaving her post in Ministry of regions, – the source (Бабак йде з посади голови Мінрегіону, - джерело )]. RBC Ukraine. 16 January 2020.</ref><ref>[https://tsn.ua/politika/goncharuk-viznachivsya-iz-novim-ministrom-gromad-i-teritoriy-1475931.html Honcharuk has decided on new minister of communities and territories (Гончарук визначився із новим міністром громад і територій)]. TSN. 17 January 2020</ref> On 4 February 2020 she was formerly dismissed by Parliament (Verkhovna Rada).<ref>[https://www.unian.info/m/politics/10858727-ukraine-s-parliament-appoints-shmyhal-as-deputy-prime-minister-minister-of-community-development.html Ukraine's parliament appoints Shmyhal as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Community Development], UNIAN (4 February 2020)</ref>
Babak was a member of the Parliament of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, member of parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, appearing 8th on the party list of Samopomich Union.<ref name=Rada-bio/> She left parliament in March 2017, claiming "I'm not a politician, I'm more of an expert. Political activity is difficult for me as a person."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.dt.ua/POLITICS/deputat-vid-samopomich-alona-babak-zalishit-verhovnu-radu-236075_.html|title = Депутат від "Самопоміч" Олена Бабак залишить Верховну Раду}}</ref>
== Biography == Aliona Babak was born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.<ref name="SP-bio" /> She graduated with honours from the Kyiv State Pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, attaining the qualification of foreign languages teacher (English and French) in 1996.
In 1996, she won the Edmund Muskie Fund grant for studying in the US, which allowed her to attain a master's degree in Business Administration and Finance from Old Dominion University, Virginia.
Since 1998, Babak has worked as an entrepreneur, manager of international projects, head specialist on pricing and financial management in housing and local development. In 2004, she co-founded and became a member of the managing board of the charity organisation 'Local Development Institute', where she specialises in financial management of housing. She has written 30 academic papers on reforming housing and communal services and regulations for the natural monopolists.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
She is a member of a working group on reforming of housing and communal services with the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine. Member of the Consulting Council at the National Commission on State Regulation of Communal Services.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kmu.gov.ua/ua/profile/alona-babak|title=Бабак Альона Валеріївна|work=Government of Ukraine|accessdate=September 12, 2019|language=uk}}</ref>
== See also == * List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2014–19 * Honcharuk Government
== References == {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=Rada-bio>{{cite web |url= http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/page/18007 |title= Народний депутат України VIII скликання: Бабак Альона Валеріївна |language= Ukrainian |trans-title= Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada: Aliona Valeriyivna Babak |publisher= Verkhovna Rada |access-date= 2015-08-04 |archive-date= 2015-10-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151011160416/http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/page/18007 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
<ref name=SP-bio>{{cite web |url= http://samopomich.ua/en/alona-babak-2/ |title= Aliona Babak |date= 10 September 2014 |publisher= Self Reliance }} * {{cite web |url= http://samopomich.ua/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/08_Babak.pdf |title= АВТОБІОГРАФІЯ |language= Ukrainian |trans-title= Autobiography |publisher= Self Reliance |date= 12 September 2014 |access-date= 4 August 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150327024949/http://samopomich.ua/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/08_Babak.pdf |archive-date= 27 March 2015 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://www.minregion.gov.ua/about/management/babak-alona-valeriyivna-2/ MinRegion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107191134/http://www.minregion.gov.ua/about/management/babak-alona-valeriyivna-2/ |date=2020-01-07 }} (in Ukrainian)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Babak, Aliona Valeriyivna}} Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Politicians from Kryvyi Rih Category:Old Dominion University alumni Category:Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Category:Self Reliance (political party) politicians Category:Regional development and construction ministers of Ukraine Category:Women government ministers of Ukraine Category:21st-century Ukrainian women politicians Category:Women members of the Verkhovna Rada