VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE APPOINTED NEW CABINET OF MINISTERS WITH VOLODYMYR GROYSMAN AS PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE
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Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2016

Volodymyr Groysman presented for consideration to the Parliament the candidates to fill posts of members of a new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

On the proposal of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, in accord with the Coalition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine includes:

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PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE

VOLODYMYR GROYSMAN - PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE





From March 2006 until February 2014 Groysman was the Mayor of Vinnytsia. 
He then until November 2014 held two
concurrent positions as the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Regional
olicy and the Minister of Regional Development, Construction and
Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine.
Starting late November 2014 Groysman's next post was the
 Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada  until being appointed
Prime Minister (in April 2016).
He was elected into parliament on the party lists
of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc

VICE PRIME MINISTERS 

STEPAN KUBIV - VICE PRIME MINISTER - MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
During the Maidan – Kubiv was a commander in the House of Trade Unions in Kyiv.
From February 2014 - Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Since February 2014, Member of the National Security Council.

IVANNA KLYMPUSH-TSINTSADZE  - VICE-PRIME MINISTER FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Prior to becoming a Member of Parliament Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze was heading Yalta European Strategy - an independent international network promoting the development of democratic and prosperous Ukraine. 
Before that, since October 2007, Ivanna worked as Director of the International Charity Organization "Open Ukraine Foundation".

PAVLO ROZENKO - VICE PRIME MINISTER-MINISTER OF SOCIAL POLICY
Rozenko was a member of the Ukrainian Student Society and the People's Movement of Ukraine since 1989. 

He was elected to Ukrainian Parliament in 2012 from the UDAR party, and re-elected in 2014 after placing 26th on the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
Was Minister of Social  Policy in Yatsenyuk Government.  

VIACHESLAV KYRYLENKO - VICE PRIME MINISTER FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS 

Former Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Vice Prime Minister, former party leader of Our Ukraine and former leader of the party For Ukraine!.
Since September 2014 he is one of the leaders of the party People's Front

HENNADII ZUBKO - VICE PRIME MINISTER - MINISTER OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION, HOUSING AND UTILITIES  
From 10 June to December 2014 - First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. 

Since December 2014 - Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing in the second Yatsenyuk Government
From 2010 until present - Chairman of the PSC "Zhytomyr plant of walling constructions".

VOLODYMYR KISTION  - VICE PRIME MINISTER FOR THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS 

Former First Deputy Minister of Regional Development
Since 2011 - First Deputy Mayor of Vinnytsia 

MINISTERS OF THE NEW CABINET

OLEXANDR SAJENKO -  MINISTER OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS


Former Head of Secretariat of Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Volodymyr Groysman).

OLEXANDR DANYLIUK - MINISTER OF FINANCE  
Prior to appointment as a Finance Minister  Danyliuk served as Deputy head of the Presidential Administration.

Earlier -  senior consultant at McKinsey & Company

STEPAN POLTORAK -  MINISTER OF DEFENSE


Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 14 October 2014, previously - the commander of the Internal Troops of Ukraine and National Guard of Ukraine.
Poltorak's rank is General of the army of Ukraine.

PAVLO KLIMKIN -  MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Ukrainian diplomat and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine. Since 19 June 2014 he has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Klimkin served as both Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry until 22 June 2012, when he was appointed Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany.

ARSEN AVAKOV  - MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
 

Ukrainian politician and businessman. Between 2005 and 2010 was Governor of Kharkiv Oblast.
Following the 2014 Revolution, Avakov was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs and reappointed to the same position in  December 2014.
Founding member of  People's Front Party.

PAVLO PETRENKO - MINISTER OF JUSTICE 

MP of Ukraine 7th convocation. Minister of Justice of Ukraine from February 2014.
Earlier served as a deputy in the Kyiv regional council, where he worked on the body's anticorruption committee.
Has also served as general counsel for Ukraine's State Savings Bank

ANDRII REVA  - MINISTER OF SOCIAL POLICY


Former Deputy Mayor of Vinnytsia

OSTAP SEMERAK - MINISTER OF ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES  

People's Deputy of Ukraine's parliament, member of the People's Front Party. 

Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in Yatsenyuk Government from February 2014 till December 2014

TARAS KUTOVY  - MINISTER OF AGRARIAN POLICY AND FOOD 

Former Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Agrarian Policy

YURY STETS  - MINISTER OF INFORMATION POLICY 

Was appointed to the post of Minister of Information Policy at the formation of the Second Yatsenyuk Government on December 2 2014. 

Stets is a member of Petro Poroshenko Bloc

LILIYA HRYNEVYCH - MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE


From 2006 to 2009, Hrynevych headed the Kyiv City State Administration's education department.
Representing Fatherland, she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. She served as the chair of the Parliamentary Committee for Science and Education.Placing 9th on the party list of People's Front, she was re-elected in the 2014 parliamentary election.

IHOR ZHDANOV - MINISTER OF YOUTH AND SPORTS


Minister of Youth and Sports in the Yatsenyuk Government. Zhdanov is the president of the Open Politics analytical center.

He was elected into the Ukrainian Parliament in 2014 as a member of the Fatherland party.

YEVGEN NISCHUK - MINISTER OF CULTURE 


Ukrainian theater and cinema actor. 
 

Minister of Culture in Yatsenyuk government from February till December 2014

VOLODYMYR OMELIAN - MINISTER OF INFRASTRUCTURE 
Former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.

From 2000 - served in different positions in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, Ministry of Infrastructure. 

VADYM CHERNYSH - MINISTER FOR OCCUPIED TERRITORIES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS 


Chairman of the State Agency for Donbas Restoration

NASALYK IHOR - MINISTER OF ENERGY AND COAL INDUSTRY 

Former Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex 

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