Olexandr Bondar was born in 1957, he graduated with honors from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute named after V.V. Dokuchaev.

Working activity. He began his working activity in 1979 at the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry (Kharkov).

He worked as the head of the laboratory, deputy director of the Polesie branch of ISSAR. In 1986 he received a Ph.D. in agricultural sciences. Since 1995 he was corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences. Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor. Since 1996, O. Bondar has been working in managerial positions: Director of the Polesie Regional Scientific and Production Center for Ecological and Aerospace Monitoring "Polesie" (State Research and Production Center "Polesie"), Director of the Volyn State Scientific and Information Center of NASU and the Ministry of Nature Protection of Ukraine in Lutsk, Director of the Association of Manufacturers telecommunication equipment, acting director of the Scientific and Technological Center "Tasko-Ekos", and since 2003 - rector of the State Ecological Institute of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Now it is the State Ecological Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management. He worked concurrently as a professor in the department of agrochemistry of the Ukrainian Agrarian University, and as head of the department of ecology and life safety in the field of communications.

The scientific activity of O. Bondar is the study of patterns and priority areas for sustainable development of the country, the protection and rational use of natural resources, the development of the regional environmental monitoring system formation, the implementation of environmental management, environmental standardization and certification in Ukraine. He took an active part in the development and implementation of advanced automated systems for remote sensing of the earth using space technologies. Bondar O. is a leading scientist in the field of system research on environmental management and environmental safety. According to the results of scientific research, he has 9 invention certificates and patents, 16 textbooks and training toolkits ("Agrochemistry", "Ecological safety and environmental protection", "Anthropogenic environmental factors and their impact on biota and human health", "Implementation of European standards and standards in the system of State Ecological Monitoring of Ukraine", "Radioecology", "Fundamentals of Ecology", "Soil Science", "Introduction to Climatology and Meteorology", "Ecology of Urban Systems", "Environmental Management and Audit", "Environmental Monitoring environment", "General Ecology and Neoekology", "Tehnoekology", "Landscape Ecology", is the author of scientific papers, guidelines and reference books (some 115 publications). He is a highly qualified scientist and educator, supervisor of 5 applicants  for a degree of Candidate of Sciences.

Pedagogical activity. As the rector, O. Bondar laid the foundation for the development of new activities of the educational institution in accordance with the main priorities of the development of modern environmental science, the tasks of the environmental industry and the Ministry of Natural Resources of Ukraine. The Department of Environmental Audit, the Center for Environmental Certification, the Center for Industrial Ecology and Clean Technologies were founded at the Academy. On the initiative of O. Bondar, cooperation with the Ministry of Industrial Policy, the Ministry of Defense, the State Committee on Standards, the National Space Agency of Ukraine, the SE “Naukanaftogaz”, State National University named after Taras Shevchenko, the National Scientific and Technical Council of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and several other educational institutions and scientific organizations of Ukraine, non-governmental organizations of the environmental direction of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus were established. Under his leadership, research and development of scientific and methodological support of the educational process, including for remote technologies, on topical issues of the environmental industry are carried out.

Public activities. Olexandr Bondar is the initiator of the creation of the Center for Military Ecology of the Ministry of Defense and the technopark "UkrInfoTech", which have worked now. He is a founder and scientific consultant of the Ecological Ukraine charity environmental fund, scientific consultant on environmental security issues of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, editor-in-chief of the scientific and practical journal “Ecological Sciences”, chairman of the technical committee for standardization of TC 82 "Environmental Protection".