Ivan Kyrylenko | |
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Іван Кириленко | |
Minister for Agriculture of Ukraine | |
In office 10 January 2000 – 26 November 2002[1] | |
Preceded by | Mykhailo Hladiy |
Succeeded by | Serhiy Ryzhuk |
Vice-Prime Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex | |
In office 26 November 2002 – 3 February 2005 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Berdyansk Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Ukrainian SSR) | 2 October 1956
Political party | All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" |
Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko (Ukrainian: Іван Григорович Кириленко; born 2 October 1956)[2] is a Ukrainian politician and from 2007 till December 2011 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.[3][4][5]
In 1978 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural Institute, specializing in agricultural scientist. In 1991, Kyrylenko was a graduate of the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow, the specialty analyst.
Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History. He defended his thesis entitled "Social development of village: Experience, Problems, Prospects (for example Prydniprovia USSR)" in 1991 at the Academy of Social Sciences (Moscow), and in 1997 ibid - doctoral thesis "The formation and development of the agricultural economy in the form of a market transformation."
Before becoming a politician Kyrylenko worked as head of a collective farm (kolkhoz) and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[2]
He was first elected into Parliament on an independent candidate on in December 1995 he then joined the faction Unity.[2] At the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kyrylenko was elected into Parliament on a Hromada ticket.[2][6] When Yulia Tymoshenko set up the breakaway All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" faction Kyrylenko joined her.[2]
Kyrylenko left Parliament 2001[7] to become Minister of Agriculture (in the Kinakh Government) and one of the founding members of (the now defunct electoral bloc) For United Ukraine in 2001.[8] At the time of the next elections he was a member of the Agrarian Party (a part of For United Ukraine).[2] Kyrylenko was Deputy Prime Minister in the First Yanukovych Government (2002-January 2005) cabinet of Viktor Yanukovych.[9][10][11][12]
In 2006 and 2007 he was elected into Parliament on an All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ticket.[13] According to Yulia Tymoshenko, Kyrylenko is her “godfather in politics”.[14] After the 2007 election he was elected faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.[3] The faction re-elected as its faction leader Andriy Kozhemiakin.[4][5]
Kyrylenko was placed at number 15 on the electoral list of Batkivshchyna during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election; he was re-elected into parliament.[15][16] He served on the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was again re-elected into parliament; this time after placing 14th on the electoral list of Batkivshchyna.[17][18]
Published more than 100 scientific works, including some 10 books, including five in collaboration and 2 monographs.[19]
Trained Doctors 2 and 3 candidates.
Elected in 2002, a corresponding member of Academy of Agrarian Sciences Research Office of Transfer of innovation.
The politician is married and his wife Zinaida name. Together they have a daughter.