Pavlo Kukhta | |
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Павло Кухта | |
Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture | |
In office 4 March 2020 – 17 March 2020 | |
President | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
Prime Minister | Denys Shmyhal |
Preceded by | Tymofiy Mylovanov |
Succeeded by | Ihor Petrashko |
Personal details | |
Born | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | 3 December 1985
Political party | Voice |
Spouse | Iuliia Mendel |
Education | Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Aspen Institute |
Occupation | Economist politician |
Pavlo Andriiovych Kukhta (Ukrainian: Павло Андрійович Кухта; born 3 December 1985)[1] is a Ukrainian economist and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.[2][3]
He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. In 2018, he studied at Aspen Institute Kyiv.[4]
Kukhta is an economist at the Center for Economic Solutions. He cooperated with the Reanimation Package of Reforms.[4]
From 2015 to 2019, he worked as an adviser to the Minister of Finance.[4]
From 2016 to 2019, he was an adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine.[4]
In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kukhta failed as a candidate of Voice to get elected to parliament.[4] His 25th place on the national election list was 8 places behind the elected members of the party.[4][5]
From September 2019 to April 2020, Kukhta served as First Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.[6][7]
On March 26, 2022, Pavlo Kukhta went to the front line of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,[8] and around April 20, 2022, he resigned from the army.[9]