Yaroslav Brisiuck

Yaroslav Brisiuck trained as a lawyer in Ukraine and the United States. He studied international relations in Kyiv, spent an exchange year at Davidson College, and earned a law degree at Temple University in 2002. After a clerkship at the New Jersey Supreme Court and legal work in Philadelphia, he entered Ukraine's foreign service in 2004. On returning to Ukraine, he worked on relations with the United States and Canada. ^{1, 2}

Brisiuck served in Ottawa before joining the Washington embassy, first as political counselor and then as deputy chief of mission. As chargé d'affaires in 2015, he took part in a Carnegie Endowment discussion of the Crimean Tatars' situation after Russia's annexation of Crimea, alongside Irena Lasota and Lilia Muslimova. The event linked the contemporary occupation with the anniversary of Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars. ^{1, 3}

After a second term as deputy chief of mission in Washington, from 2019 to 2023, Brisiuck became director general of the foreign ministry department responsible for the Americas in September 2023. ¹