Hennadiy Zubko

Hennadiy Zubko (born 27 September 1967, Mykolaiv) is a Ukrainian politician.

Since 2 December 2014 he has been a Deputy Prime Minister for Regional Development, Construction and Housing, serving in the second Yatsenyuk Government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and in the Groysman Government of Volodymyr Groysman.

He graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, specializing in "Automated control systems", engineering, in 1991. He took courses in "Investment and financial management in the construction industry" (Northwestern University, Illinois, Chicago, 2003) and "Innovative Management" (2006). He received his MBA from the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv Mohyla Business School, in 2007.

The main priority of the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing is the conduction of reforms on decentralization and energy efficiency. During the year of implementing these reforms, a significant breakthrough was made, including the adopting of a number of legislative acts, introduction of new programs and their funding.

Also, the Ministry is responsible for the construction reform and introduction of market relations in the housing sector to provide consumers with quality services.

Hennadiy Zubko headed the government commission on investigating the MH17 catastrophe and the special commission on investigating causes of the crash of the ship "Ivolha". He also took care of issues of infrastructure restoration in Svatove affected by fires at the rocket and artillery weapon warehouses. In addition, he created an expert group to assess the damage caused by an emergency situation.

Decentralization reform implemented under the leadership of Hennadiy Zubko involves changes in education, health, social policy, public administration, local authorities, development of urban infrastructure, as well as energy efficiency measures.

In December 2014, the Budget and Tax Codes were amended, and fiscal decentralization took place in Ukraine. Thanks to these changes, local budgets in 2015 became surplus. Fiscal decentralization has allowed for the provision of more than USD 24 billion to local budgets. Using the State Regional Development Fund, the government financed 784 projects of infrastructure and provided them with USD 2.7 billion.

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