Oleksandr Merezhko (born 14 February 1971, Bobrynets, Kirovohrad Oblast, USSR) is a Ukrainian jurist, doctor of legal sciences, professor, Honored lawyer of Ukraine.
Chair of the Committee on Foreign Policy and interparliamentary relations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Vice-president of PACE from 27 January 2020 to 23 January 2022. Member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Deputy head of the delegation to participate in the Trilateral Contact Group. Co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. Member of the team of president Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Member of the Ukrainian Society of International Law and the American Association of International Law. Head of the Ukrainian part of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Deputy co-chair of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Parliament of Georgia, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. Deputy co-chair of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland. Deputy co-chair of the Ukraine-NATO Inter-Parliamentary Council (UNIC). Deputy co-chair of the executive committee of the National Parliamentary Group in the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Early life
Oleksandr Merezhko was born on 14 February 1971 in Bobrynets, Kirovohrad Oblast.
In 1994 he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with honors (specialty – international law). In 1992–1993 he studied at Denver University (US).
In 1996 he completed postgraduate studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, defended his candidate's thesis in international law on the topic "The concept of humanitarian intervention and the mechanism of human rights protection within the framework of the UN" (decision of the Specialized Academic Council of the Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine dated 15 November 1996., protocol No. 13). In December 2002 he defended his doctoral dissertation on international law on the topic "Theory and Principles of Transnational Trade Law (Lex Mercatoria)" at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National University (decision of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine dated 21 May 2003, protocol No. 36-11/5). He completed numerous scientific internships abroad. In 2001 the Institute named after Harriman of Columbia University (US); in 2004–2005 – at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center (US), in 2010–2011 – at one of the research institutes in Washington (US).