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Dr. Anton Korynevych Dr. Anton Korynevych is a Ukrainian lawyer specializing in public international law, international humanitarian and international criminal law. He is Ambassador-at-large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (since 25 May 2022) Dr. Korynevych is the Agent of Ukraine before the International Court of Justice in the Allegations of Genocide and the Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination cases (Ukraine v. Russian Federation). Dr. Korynevych is the Head of the Task Force Working Group on freeze, seize and confiscation of Russian assets within the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (since 5 September 2022). Dr. Korynevych holds a title of Honored lawyer of Ukraine. Dr. Korynevych served as Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (25 June 2019 – 25 April 2022). He got his Ph.D. in international law in 2011 in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Dr. Korynevych holds a position of Associate Professor of the International Law Department of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (since 1 July 2016 onwards). He used to work as Research Coordinator of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (14 April 2017 – 22 April 2019). He also used to work as Deputy Director of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (22 April 2019 – 25 June 2019). Dr. Korynevych has been working on legal consequences of Russian aggression against Ukraine since February 2014. Dr. Korynevych worked a lot with Ukrainian prosecutorial authorities providing trainings and advice to them. He also provided trainings on international humanitarian and international criminal law to Ukrainian human rights non-governmental organizations, worked a lot with international partners on these issues, participated in drafting of relevant national legislation. Dr. Korynevych is the head of the working group on reintegration of temporarily occupied territories within the Commission on Legal Reform of Ukraine. He is also the member of the working group on the development and implementation of international legal instruments of reimbursement of damage caused to Ukraine by armed aggression of the Russian Federation within Office of the President of Ukraine and the member of the working group on the establishment of the Special International Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine within the Office of the President of Ukraine. Dr. Korynevych is coordinating the issue of the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.