Denys Shmyhal


Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Biography

In 1997, he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic. Holds the title of Candidate of Economic Sciences. From his graduation in 1997 until September 2005 Shmyhal worked as an accountant in various companies. From September 2005 to June 2006, Shmyhal was Deputy General Director of a company called "LA DIS". From June 2006 to August 2008, he was Director for the investment company "Comfort-Invest". From September 2008 to September 2009, Shmyhal was General Director of a company called "ROSANINVEST LLC".
Shmyhal worked in leading roles in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast from 2009 until December 2013. He started as the Head of the Department of Economics at the Lviv Oblast Administration between 2009 and 2011. It is there were he met and worked with Oleh Nemchinov who would in 2020 become Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Shmyhal Government. Shmyhal then became the Head of the Department of Economics and Industrial Policy the whole of 2012. In 2013 he was head of the Department of Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Industry.
The first four months of 2014 Shmyhal was consultant to a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
From May 2014 to December 2014, Shmyhal worked as Deputy Head of the Lviv Oblast regional office of the Ministry of Revenues and Duties.
He served as Vice President of Lviv-based frozen goods distributor TVK Lvivkholod from 2015 to 2017.
From 2018 to 2019, Shmyhal served as Director of the Burshtyn TES which is the largest electricity producer in Ivano-Frankivsk and is part of Rinat Akhmetov's holdings.
From 1 August 2019, until his ministerial appointment Shmyhal was the Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
On 4 February 2020, he was appointed Minister of Regional Development.
Shmyhal replaced Oleksiy Honcharuk as the Prime Minister of Ukraine in March 2020.

Personal life

Shmyhal is married to Kateryna. The couple raises two daughters. Kateryna is a former co-owner of the Lviv “Kamyanetsky Bakery” and the local NextBike bike rental. She sold her shares in these companies in 2019.

Income

For 2019, he declared a salary of UAH 3,389,062 and a 2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport car