Bohdan Boyko
Богдан Бойко
Official portrait, 1998
Governor of Ternopil Oblast
In office 7 September 1996 – 20 April 1998
Preceded by	Borys Kosenko
Succeeded by	Vasyl Vovk
Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council
In office April 1992 – June 1994
Preceded by	Vasyl Oliynyk
Succeeded by	Borys Kosenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 15 May 1990 – 14 May 2002
Preceded by	Position established (1990) Mykhailo Matsialko [uk] (1994)
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Ratushnyi [uk] (1994) Constituency abolished (1998)
Constituency	Ternopil Oblast, No. 360 (1990–1994) Ternopil Oblast, No. 361 (1994–1998) People's Movement of Ukraine, No. 7 (1998–2002)
Personal details
Born	(1954-09-29) 29 September 1954 (age 69) Pidiarkiv [uk], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	People's Movement of Ukraine
Alma mater	University of Lviv

Bohdan Fedorovych Boyko (Ukrainian: Богдан Федорович Бойко; born 29 September 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who formerly served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2002 as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine. He was also a candidate in 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Movement of Ukrainian Patriots. In 2000, he formed a third faction within the People's Movement of Ukraine^[1] aimed at reconciling the differences between two other opposing factions.^[2]

Biography

He was born on 29 September 1954 in the village of Pidiarkiv, in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast in what was then the Soviet Union.

Education

• Ivan Franko Lviv State University, Faculty of Economics (1971–1976), economist;
• graduate student at the Department of Political Economy, Lviv University (1979–1982);
• Candidate's dissertation "Efficiency of commodity turnover of means of production in the period of developed socialism" (1982).

Career

1982–1986 – Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Lviv Agricultural Institute.

1986–1990 – Art. Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Political Economy, Ternopil Pedagogical Institute.

From 1990 – 1st Deputy Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council.

Since 15 January 1992 – Chairman of the Executive Committee and Regional Council.

April 1992 – June 1994 – Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council.

7 September 1996 – 20 April 1998 – Governor of Ternopil Oblast.

Since 1990 – co-chairman, chairman of the Ternopil Oblast council of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

1993 – co-chairman of the Ternopil Regional Council of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

1995–1999 – Deputy Chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

1995–1997 – c. at. Chairman, Chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine Secretariat.