Olexandr Starodubtsev

Starodubtsev was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1979. During the Revolution of Dignity in 2014 Olexandr created a civil initiative of the Open University of Maidan together with his friends. Just after the Revolution Olexandr started a civil movement for reforming the public procurement sphere. Later this initiative received the name of “Prozorro”. Starodubtsev joined the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine as the Head of the public procurement department in April 2015 in order to speed up the reform. In less than a year a new electronic system was developed, all necessary legislation was adopted, and all relevant stakeholders were trained and prepared for switching to fully electronic procurement system. Later in 2016 Prozorro has been recognized worldwide, winning several distinctive awards. Moreover, Prozorro became an inspirational example for other reforms in Ukraine.

In 2019, Starodubtsev implemented an IT system for the personnel management for the Ukrainian civil service in project manager’s role. Later on that year, he won a competition and headed the National Agency for the Civil Service of Ukraine. Starodubtsev’s goal was to reboot the civil service and transform it from the post-soviet type to the modern one. However, after four month in March 2020, he was fired by the newly elected government. He joined the new team of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention as a deputy head of the agency in May 2020.

Starodubtsev received his MBA in Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and won the prestigious award for Alumni of the year in 2015. In 2017, he was accepted for the first cohort of Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program in Stanford University.
Starodubtsev is married and has a son and a daughter.