Hryhoriy Nemyria

Hryhoriy Nemyria (Ukrainian: Григорій Немиря) is the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, and the Deputy Head of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland".

Mr Nemyria is married; he has a son and a daughter.

Dr Nemyria comes from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, where he finished secondary school No.1 (summa cum laude) and began his academic career. He has a Master of Arts in History (with honours) from the Donetsk State University and a PhD from Taras Shevchenko Kiev University. He became Vice-Rector of the National University of Kiev Mohyla Academy and chaired the Department of European Integration in the National Academy of Public Administration. He was the Chairman of the Board of the International Renaissance Foundation and Board Member of the Kiev School of Economics.

He is also a graduate of the Harvard Ukrainian National Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He underwent a training course in the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, Washington D.C., USA). He taught in the Institute of Political Studies (Bordeaux, France) and the NATO Defense College (Rome, Italy).

Dr Nemyria is a Founder and Director of the Center for European and International Studies (CEIS).

In October 2012 he was elected as a member of parliament of VIIth convocation and on 25 December 2012 he was elected as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration.

Dr Nemyria served as Deputy Prime Minister responsible for European and International Integration in the second government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (December 2007 – March 2010). He was Governor from Ukraine in the World Bank. He also chaired the Ukrainian part of the Ukraine-China Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation.

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