On July 17, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Yulia Svyridenko to the post of Prime Minister. 262 People’s Deputies voted for the relevant decision. About this informsPeople’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
Thus, Svyridenko became the second woman in the history of independent Ukraine to head the government, and the first in the last 15 years.
The new head of the Cabinet of Ministers, 39-year-old Yulia Svyridenko, hails from Chernihiv. She grew up in a family of civil servants, graduated with honors from the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, completed postgraduate studies, as well as studies at management courses in Germany and Sweden. Fluent in English and Chinese.
She began her career in the private sector, later worked on investment projects in the Chernihiv region, held managerial positions in the regional administration, where she reached the level of acting director. Head of State Administration. She held the position of Deputy Minister of Economy, and since 2020, Deputy Head of the Office of the President for Economic Affairs. In the Cabinet of Ministers, she was responsible for a number of important initiatives, including the YeRobota program, sanctions policy, business relocation, creation of a recovery fund, as well as negotiations with the IMF and the EU.
Svyridenko is a signatory from the Ukrainian side of the high-profile agreement with the USA in the field of subsoil use. She was also a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on the Peaceful Settlement of the Donbas, where she represented Ukraine in the subgroup on socio-economic issues.
While working in the President’s Office, she headed the Business Promotion Council, was a member of the competitive commission for the selection of the head of the Bureau of Economic Security, was a member of the supervisory board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, and headed the board of the Social Insurance Fund in case of unemployment.
On November 4, 2021, she was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Economy. In August of the following year, she headed the Interdepartmental Group on the Implementation of Sanctions Policy. In 2023, Svyridenko was included in the list of 100 new world leaders according to TIME magazine.
