Volodymyr Stelmach

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Volodymyr Stelmach

Volodymyr Semenowytsch Stelmach ( Ukrainian Володимир Семенович Стельмах ; born January 18, 1939 in Oleksandrivka , Sumy Oblast ) is a Ukrainian economist and politician. From January 2000 to December 2002 and again from December 2004 to December 2010 he was President of the National Bank of Ukraine .

Stelmach studied economics at the University of Economics in Kiev and Moscow, he has the title of candidate of science ( Кандидат экономических наук ). At the time of the Soviet Union, he held management positions at the State Bank of the USSR .

After Ukraine gained independence, he worked on the governing body of the Ukrainian National Bank; in 2000 he was appointed its president for the first time, and after his dismissal at the end of 2002, he was briefly a director of a Ukrainian commercial bank. In December 2004, he was reappointed President of the National Bank by the newly elected President Viktor Yushchenko . In the parliamentary elections in 2007 he ran for the Blok Nascha Ukrajina of Yushchenko and also won a seat in the Verkhovna Rada ; Stelmach, however, refused to accept his mandate. In 2007 he was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine . Due to the strong devaluation of the national currency, the hryvnia , Stelmach had been under political pressure since 2008 and parliament demanded his removal, but President Yushchenko refused to dismiss him.

In December 2010, Viktor Yanukovych dismissed him as President of the National Bank and replaced him with Serhiy Arbusov .

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  1. ↑ Presidential Decree conferring the title Hero of Ukraine
  2. ↑ Hryvnia shows the risk of foreign bonds FAZ from December 18, 2008
  3. ↑ Tymoshenko attacks Yushchenko again because of hryvnia devaluation at rian.ru from January 22, 2009
  4. ↑ The head of the Ukrainian central bank has to leave because of the hryvnia devaluation rian.ru of December 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Stelmach, Volodymyr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Стельмах, Володимир Семенович (Ukrainian); Stelmach, Wolodymyr Semenowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian economist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Oleksandrivka (Welyka Pyssariwka) , Sumy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR