Volodymyr Demchyshyn

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

Volodymyr Vasylyovych Demchyshyn (Ukrainian: Володимир Васильович Демчишин; born 12 November 1974) is a Ukrainian former banker and politician, who served as Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016 in the second Yatsenyuk Government.^[2][3][1]

Volodymyr Demchyshyn
Володимир Демчишин
Demchyshyn in 2015
16th Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine
In office 2 December 2014 – 14 April 2016[1]
Prime Minister	Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Preceded by	Yuriy Prodan
Succeeded by	Ihor Nasalyk[1]
Personal details
Born	(1974-11-12) 12 November 1974 (age 50) Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Spouse	Rayisa Demchyshyn
Alma mater	Lviv University Viadrina European University University of Kansas

Biography

Demchyshyn studied international economic relations at Lviv University and received MBA in international finance at the University of Kansas Business School.^[4]

In 2003 Demchyshyn started his career financial institutions and he has held top positions in the Kyiv branches of ING Bank and Ernst & Young.^[2] Prior to his post of Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine he was Director of the investment company Investment Capital Ukraine.^[2]

Due to the factsheet of the Bank Avangard he is one of the co-owners of the ICU/Bank Avangard-complex (whose former director was the actual governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, Valeriya Hontareva).^[5]

In December 2014, Demchyshyn was appointed as the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine. He served as minister until May 2016.^[6]

In May 2016, he was appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of Naftogaz. He was resigned in September 2019.^[7]