Oleksandr Danylyuk Олександр Данилюк |
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Minister of Finance | |
Assumed office 14 April 2016 |
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Prime Minister | Volodymyr Groysman |
Preceded by | Natalie Jaresko |
Personal details | |
Born |
Grigoriopol, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
22 July 1975
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater |
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Indiana University, Bloomington |
Oleksandr (Alex) Danyliuk (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Данилюк; born July 22, 1975, Grigoriopol, Moldavian SSR) is Ukrainian politician. He is currently the Ukraine's finance minister in the government of Volodymyr Groysman.
Oleksandr Danyliuk was born in a family of scientists. His father, Oleksandr Danyliuk, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, while the mother, Lyudmila Danyliuk, taught cybernetics at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Soon after his birth, the family moved back to Kyiv. Danyliuk studied at the physics and mathematics class at №15 school in Kyiv.
Oleksandr Danyliuk graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine with a degree in electric engineering in 1998. He also studied at the Kyiv Institute of Investment Management (1995) and obtained MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in 2001.
Oleksandr Danyliuk worked in the private sector as a consultant and investment manager in a number of companies, including TEKT, Alfa Capital and Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) in Ukraine.
Later Mr. Danyliuk worked at McKinsey & Company London and Moscow offices for three years. His project portfolio included reform of the UK tax system as well as strategy development and operations optimization in energy and telecom projects.
Between 2006 and 2010, Mr. Danyliuk chaired the Rurik Investment fund that operated in London and Luxembourg.
Oleksandr Danyliuk first joined public service in 2005 as economic advisor to the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov. In his team Danyliuk worked on energy reform and carried out privatization of state-owned enterprises, including Kryvorizhstal, Ukraine’s largest integrated steel company, which became part of the global steel producer Mittal Steel Company N.V.