Andriy Kostin was born on April 17, 1973, in Odesa.
In 1995 – graduated from Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National
University with a degree in Law.
A.Kostin worked as a lawyer and attorney in several law firms and associations.
From 2016 to 2019 – served as Deputy Head of the Bar Council of the Odesa Region.
In 2019 – elected as a Member of Parliament to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th
convocation.
He served as Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy and as Chair of
the Subcommittee on the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
and Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Committee on Legal Policy.
In 2000 he joined the International Bar Association, being an active member of the Maritime
and Transport Law Committee and the Bar Issues Commission of the IBA.
From 2020 to 2022 – Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy.
From 2022 to 2024 – served as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
By Presidential Decrees No. 212/2025 and No. 213/2025 dated April 7, 2025, appointed as
the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the
Netherlands and the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
