Roman Golovchenko

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovich and the family name is Golovchenko.

Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko^[a] (born 10 August 1973) is a Belarusian politician who is currently the chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus since 10 March 2025. He previously served as Prime Minister of Belarus from June 2020 to March 2025.

Roman Golovchenko
Роман Головченко Раман Галоўчэнка
Golovchenko in 2021
Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 March 2025
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Preceded by	Pavel Kallaur
10th Prime Minister of Belarus
In office 4 June 2020 – 10 March 2025
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Preceded by	Sergei Rumas
Succeeded by	Alexander Turchin
Chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee of Belarus
In office 18 August 2018 – 3 June 2020
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Preceded by	Oleg Dvigalev
Succeeded by	Dmitry Pantus
Belarusian Ambassador to the Gulf states
In office 22 April 2013 – 18 August 2018
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Deputy Director of the General Prosecution of Belarus
In office 2002–2005
President	Alexander Lukashenko
Personal details
Born	(1973-08-10) 10 August 1973 (age 51)[1] Zhodino, Minsk Region, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Children	3
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations Academy of Public Administration (Belarus)

Prior to his premiership, he was a diplomat and worked in the country's general prosecution.

Early life

He was born on 10 August 1973 in Zhodzina as an only child. His father Alexander Nikolaevich Golovchenko graduated from the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute and worked as an engineer in the design bureau of Minsk Tractor Works.^[2] Roman Golovchenko lived in Zhodzina up until the age of 10, when he moved with his parents to Minsk, where he graduated from high school.^[3] He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1996. He also graduated from the Academy of Public Administration in 2003.^[4]

Career

Golovchenko with Alexander Lukashenko and Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk, 3 September 2020

In 2013, he was made Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, and was then also responsible for representing the country in Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.^[1]

In 2018, he was named as the chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee of Belarus.^[5]

He was appointed as Prime Minister by President Alexander Lukashenko two months prior to the 2020 Belarusian presidential election.^[6][7] He offered his resignation amid a cabinet reshuffle on 17 August 2020, during the 2020 Belarusian protests.^[8][9] However, he was retained as Prime Minister of the new government.^[10]

In June 2022, Golovchenko was blacklisted by Canada.^[11]

On March 10, 2025, he was relieved of his duties as Prime Minister and appointed Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus.^[12]

Awards

• Medal "100 years of the formation of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" (2021, Republic of Tatarstan)^[13]
• Order of the Friendship of Peoples (2022, Republic of Bashkortostan)^[14]

Personal life

He has a son from his first marriage and two daughters from his current marriage. His son Georgy Yatskovsky, is a student of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He is fluent in English, Arabic, German and Polish.^[15][16]