Sergii Gorbachov has been Education Ombudsman of Ukraine since August 2019. He is also active as a member of the Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Sergii has many years of experience in the educational and journalistic sectors. From 2015-2019, he was the headmaster and a teacher of media literacy and foreign literature at Ivan Bagryany specialized school (I-III degrees No. 148) in Kyiv which provides in-depth study of the Ukrainian language and its literature.
Before this, he was the director of the information center of the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper and website, coordinator of publishing projects of the Consortium for the Improvement of Management Education in Ukraine (CEUME), Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house and newspaper for educators “Prosvita” (Zaporizhia) and the publishing house of educational and methodical literature, and initiator of creation, co-founder and director of Lyceum for gifted children “Logos” Lyceum (Zaporizhia).
From 1989–1994, Sergii was employed as Deputy of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council, member of the Commission on Education and Science, Deputy of the Zaporizhzhia City Council, and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Publicity, Mass Media and Public Organizations.
Sergii studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Zaporizhia Pedagogical Institute and used to work as a teacher of Russian language and literature at a secondary school.