Viktor Pynsenyk

Viktor Pynsenyk 2013

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник
Transl. :	Viktor Mychajlovyč Pynzenyk
Transcr. :	Viktor Mychajlowytsch Pynsenyk

Viktor Mychailowytsch Pynsenyk (born April 15, 1954 in Smolohowyzja , Irschava district , Zakarpattia Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was Minister of Finance of Ukraine from 1992 to 1993, 2005 to 2006 and 2007 to 2009.

Wiktor Pynsenyk has been a member of parliament since 1991. In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in 2002 , he was involved in the establishment of the party alliance Nascha Ukrajina (NU) of former President Viktor Yushchenko . After the elections he belonged to the NU faction in the Verkhovna Rada . Pynsenyk is a founding member and chairman of the Reform and Order Party ( Реформи і порядок, PRP ), which moved from the NU to Blok Juliji Tymoshenko in 2006 .

Career

Pynsenyk studied at the Lviv Ivan Franko -Staatsuniversität, from which he graduated in 1975 as an economist and he continued to work at as an assistant and lecturer. Since 1989 he has been a doctoral student at Moscow's Lomonosov University , where he defended his "big" dissertation. Since 1990 he has been an economics professor at Lviv University.

In December 1991 he was elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament, and worked there primarily in the commissions for economic reforms and economics .

From October 1992 to April 1993 he was the country's Minister of Economic Affairs and, at the same time, until August 1993, Deputy Prime Minister in the government. He then became chairman of a foundation to support reforms in the country.

From March 1994 to March 1998 Pynsenyk was again a member of parliament and temporarily (September 1996 to April 1997) Deputy Prime Minister for economic and reform issues in the Lasarenko government . He was valued by Western consultants as the "architect of reforms" ( FES ). In April 1997, however, he left the government, disappointed by the Prime Minister's lack of will to reform.

He then worked as an economic advisor to the President and again as a member of parliament and in several parliamentary reform commissions. Since 2002 he has been part of the Nascha Ukraina block led by Viktor Yushchenko .

On February 4, 2005, parliament approved Pynsenyk's appointment as finance minister in Yulia Tymoshenko's government . In the same year he and other members of his PRP party resigned from the NU and formed their own parliamentary group.

In the 2006 parliamentary elections , the PRP, which together with the Pora! started at the three percent hurdle and for the first time since 1991 Pynsenyk failed to achieve a parliamentary seat.

On December 2, 2006, the PRP declared its entry into the blok Juliji Tymoshenko , with which it entered the Rada again in the 2007 parliamentary elections.

After the parliamentary elections in 2007 , he was elected the new finance minister in the second government of Yulia Tymoshenko on December 18, 2007 .

On February 12, 2009, Pynsenyk announced his resignation because the government's financial policy against the background of the severe economic crisis in Ukraine caused by the international financial crisis contradicted his convictions of a sustainable financial policy.

In 2012 he joined Vitali Klitschko's UDAR party.

Pynsenyk holds honorary doctorates from the Kiev-Mohyla Academy and the Ternopil University of Economics . He is married and has two daughters and a son.

Web links

• Short biography on the Pynsenyk party website

Individual evidence

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