Andriy Pyvovarsky

Andriy Mykolayovych Pyvovarsky (Ukrainian: Андрій Миколайович Пивоварський) is a Ukrainian businessman and a former Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.[2][3] He did not retain his post in the Groysman Government that was installed on 14 April 2016.[1]

Andriy Pyvovarsky
Андрій Пивоварський
US Under Secretary for Energy Novelli and Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Pyvovarsky
4th Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
In office
2 December 2014 – 14 April 2016[1]
Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk
Preceded byMaksym Burbak
Succeeded byVolodymyr Omelyan
Personal details
Born (1978-06-12) 12 June 1978
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
Alma materKiev University
Tufts University

Biography

Pyvovarsky graduated in 2000 from the history department of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev.[3] In 2003 he received a master's degree in International Business and Finance of Tufts University (United States).[3]

From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a financial analyst and business developer in Kiev Investment Group BLASIG, where he developed and oversaw a number of projects with an investment of $10 million.[3]

From 2003 to 2006 Pyvovarsky worked at International Finance Corporation (IFC) as an investment adviser.[3]

In January 2006 Pyvovarsky joined the investment company Dragon Capital, where he headed the investment banking division.[3]

In January 2013 Pyvovarsky became CEO of Continuum Group, which is owned by Ihor Yeremeyev, Stepan Ivakhiv and Petro Dyminskyi.[3]

On 2 December 2014 Pyvovarsky was appointed Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine in the second Yatsenyuk Government.[3]

On 11 December 2015 Pyvovarsky announced his resignation.[4] He stated he planned to resign because his subordinates, volunteers he had attracted to the ministry, could not "work having non-market salaries".[5] An anonymous source in his ministry told UNIAN that Pyvovarsky was "extremely dissatisfied" with the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction refusal to adopt key bills regarding Ukraine's transport industry.[6] His resignation letter was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) in December 2015.[6] Pyvovarsky was never formally dismissed.[6] He was finally relieved from his post when the Groysman Government was installed on 14 April 2016.[1]

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References
  1. New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
  2. Profile on the official website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
  3. (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio, LIGA
  4. Andriy Pyvovarsky: A lot done, more to do in Ukraine’s infrastructure sector, Kyiv Post (11 December 2015)
  5. Red tape, low salaries are reason for resignation of minister Pyvovarsky and his team, Interfax-Ukraine (14 December 2015)
  6. Infrastructure Minister on vacation, not going to return to office – source, UNIAN (16 March 2016)
Political offices
Preceded by
Maksym Burbak		 Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
2014-2016		 Succeeded by
Volodymyr Omelyan
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