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Iryna Akimova
Ukrainian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Iryna Mykhailivna Akimova (Ukrainian: Ірина Михайлівна Акімова; born on April 26, 1960, in Kharkiv, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian politician and former First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine.[1][2] She held this post from February 2010 till February 2014.[1]
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Biography
Akimova was born in Kharkiv on 26 April 1960.[1] In 1982, she graduated from the Economics Faculty of the Kharkiv State University. She was the holder of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Volkswagen Stiftung, DAAD, and ACCEL fellowships.[1]
After April 2014, she moved away from politics and has been engaged in painting in Kyiv. In January 2022, she opened an exhibition showing her paintings.[3]
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Work and scientific activities
In the middle of the 1980s, Akimova passed her Ph.D. defense.[citation needed]
Positions and places of work
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- Senior advisor to Victor Yanukovych[citation needed]
- Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in Kyiv[4]
- Senior research fellow at the Center for Economic Research at Warsaw University
- Research assistant at the Economics department of the University of Magdeburg
- Director of the analytical center "Blakitna strіchka" Ltd. (Blue Ribbon)[5]
- Assistant Professor of Management Department at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
- Director General of the analytical center "Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies" (Kyiv)[6]
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Political career
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Since October 2007, Akimova has been a member of the Party of Regions.[7] In November 2007 she was elected the Member of Parliament – No. 63 on the list.[5][8] Akimova then worked as Deputy Head of the Committee in Verkhovna Rada on economic policy issues and took the position of Economy Minister in the opposition government of Viktor Yanukovych.[1] Akimova is a frequent guest at political talk shows and is the public figure in the Party of Regions.[citation needed]
On February 25, 2010, Akimova was appointed the First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration.[9] On March 16, 2010, she was appointed the Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.[9]
After Andriy Klyuyev had left the post in mid-February 2012 Akimova was tipped as the new First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.[2] But Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi was appointed instead.[10]
In October 2012 Akimova was re-elected into the Ukrainian parliament on the party list of the Party of Regions, but she turned down this mandate.[11][12]
In late January 2014, by decrees of President Yanukovych Akimova was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Presidential Administration and appointed advisor to the President.[13] In February 2014 Yanukovych was ousted from power.[14] In an April 2014 interview, she stated that she no longer is a member of the Party of Regions.[13]
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