Shevchuk has been the President of Ukraine Nature Conservation Society (UkrTOP) since 2002 and previously volunteered and served on its Board.

Shevchuk was born on January 19, 1954, in Andriyevychi Village, Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, to Yakiv (father, 1917–79) and Olha (mother, b.1926) who were farmers.

Vasyl Shevchuk was educated at the Kyiv Institute of National Economy, Faculty of Accounting and Economics (1971–1975).

In 1992 -1993 Shevchuk worked as a senior consultant of the Economic Service of the President of Ukraine and coordinated the development of investment policy.

He headed the Delegation of Ukraine and the National Organizing Committee of the 5th Pan-European Conference of Ministers "Environment for Europe" (Kyiv, May 21-23, 2003).

Form 2003, he is a Chairman of the Ukrainian Society for Nature Protection, an all-Ukrainian public organization founded in 1946 with more than 1 million members.

The main area of activity was to promote the implementation of the National Program for Environmental Rehabilitation of the Dnipro River Basin and to improve the quality of drinking water.

[3] In 2006-2011 he took a position of a Deputy Head of the Department of Complex Problems of State-Building of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Since 2011, he is Director General of the Center for Sustainable Development Studies and a President of the International Dnipro Foundation.