Svitlana Hrynchuk

Svitlana Vasylivna Hrynchuk (Ukrainian: Світлана Василівна Гринчук; born 11 November 1985) is a Ukrainian politician who has served as the Minister of Energy of Ukraine since 17 July 2025.^[2] Previously, she has served as the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources from 2024 to 2025 in the government of Denys Shmyhal.^[3] From 2023 to 2024, she served as Deputy Minister of Energy.^[4] From 2022 to 2023, she served as Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.^[5]

Svitlana Hrynchuk
Світлана Гринчук
Hrynchuk in 2022
Minister of Energy
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 July 2025
President	Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime Minister	Yulia Svyrydenko
Preceded by	Herman Halushchenko
Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources
In office 5 September 2024 – 17 July 2025 Acting: 16–17 July 2025
President	Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime Minister	Denys Shmyhal
Preceded by	Ruslan Strilets
Succeeded by	Oleksii Sobolev (as the Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture)
Personal details
Born	(1985-11-11) 11 November 1985 (age 39) Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Soviet Union[1]

Early life

Hrynchuk was bron on 11 November 1985 in Chernivtsi, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR.^[1] In 2008 she graduated from the Chernivtsi Institute of Trade and Economics at the State University of Trade and Economics.^[6] She then, in 2013, defended her PhD thesis and received the title of Candidate of Sciences, specifically in economics.^[7] Her thesis was on the development of mortgages in agriculture in Ukraine.^[7]

Career

From 2016 to 2019 she was Director of the Department for Climate Change and Ozone Protection in the Ministry of Environment.^[8] In 2019 she became an adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, advising on environmental protection and climate change issues.^[1] In 2020 she became an advisor to the Minister of Finance, who was Serhiy Marchenko at the time of her appointment.^[8] From 2022 to 2023 she was then Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, and then from 2023 to 2024 she was Deputy Minister of Energy.^[4][5]

Personal life

She was married to Vyacheslav Grinchuk, who is an entrepreneur in the operation of attractions and theme parks and the founder of the organization "Office of Independent Environmentalists".^[9] In 2022, Hrynchuk stopped mentioning him in official declarations.^[9] Together, they had one daughter, Yulia.^[9]