Volodymyr Groysman
| 4th session | ||||
| 26 March 2002 – 28 March 2006 | ||||
| Elected as: Independent, District No.29 | ||||
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
| 8th convocation | ||||
| 27 November 2014 – 14 April 2016 | ||||
| Elected as: Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No.4 | ||||
Volodymyr Borysovych Groysman, sometimes transliterated as Volodymyr Borysovych Hroisman, (Ukrainian: Володимир Борисович Гройсман; born 20 January 1978) has been the Prime Minister of Ukraine since 14 April 2016.
From March 2006 until February 2014 Groysman was the Mayor of Vinnytsia. From then to November 2014, he held two concurrent positions as the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Regional Policy and the Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine. He was elected into parliament on the party lists of the pro-presidential Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Groysman's next post was the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament), starting late November 2014 until being appointed Prime Minister.
Volodymyr Borysovych Groysman was born in Vinnytsia into a Jewish family on 20 January 1978. In 1994 he started his career as a commercial director of his father's small private business company "ОКО" and as a commercial director of the private enterprise "Youth".
In the 2002 local elections, he was elected as a member of the Vinnytsia City Council from the 29th electoral district. In the city council, he worked as the Deputy Head of the Permanent Committee of the City Council on Human Rights, Lawfulness, Council Members' Activities and Ethics. In 2003, he graduated from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management with a specialty in Jurisprudence. In 2004 Groysman joined the party Our Ukraine.
On 25 November 2005, he was elected the head of the city council and the acting mayor. In the 26 March 2006 local elections, he was elected as the city's mayor, becoming the youngest ever mayor of a Ukrainian administrative center. In the 10 October 2010 local elections, he was re-elected mayor for a second term, as a candidate of the party Conscience of Ukraine, gaining the support of 77.81% of citizens. While mayor, Groysman was the Vice-President of the Association of Ukrainian Cities and the Legal Issues society.
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