Background
Aliona Babak was born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Aliona Babak was born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, appearing 8th on the party list of Samopomich Union. Since 1998 Babak has worked as an entrepreneur, manager of international projects, head specialist on pricing and financial management in housing and local development. She has written 30 academic papers on reforming housing and communal services and regulations for the natural monopolists.
Graduated with honours from the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, attaining the qualification of foreign languages teacher (English and French) in 1996. In 1996 won the Edmund Muskie Fund grant for studying in the United States of America, which allowed her to attain Master"s degree in Business Administration and Finance from Old Dominion University, Virginia.
In 2004 co-founded and became a member of managing board of the charity organisation "Local Development Institute", where she specialises on financial management of housing. 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.
