Halyna Hereha

Halyna Feodorivna Hereha (Ukrainian: Галина Федорівна Герега; born 9 August 1959) is a Ukrainian businesswoman and politician who served as acting mayor of Kiev from 2012 to 2014. Hereha also was a Deputy Mayor and Secretary of the Kyiv City Council from April 20, 2011 to June 5, 2014. She is the co-owner of the store chain EpiCentre K along with her husband Oleksander Hereha.[1]

Halyna Hereha
Acting Mayor of Kiev (ex officio) —
Secretary of the Kiev City Council
In office
12 July 2012  5 June 2014
Preceded byLeonid Chernovetsky
Succeeded byVitali Klitschko
Secretary of the Kiev City Council
In office
20 April 2011  5 June 2014
Personal details
Born (1959-08-09) August 9, 1959
Glinets, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Political partyIndependent
Spouse(s)Oleksandr Hereha
Children1

She was born on August 9, 1959 in the village of Hlynets, Yavoriv raion, Lviv region.

She defended her PhD thesis on "Economic efficiency of shopping malls" in 2015.

In 2011, Oleksandr and Halyna Hereha took 27th place in the ranking of the richest people in Ukraine according to FOCUS magazine with a fortune of $890.8 million.[2] In a similar ranking for 2010, they held 26th place with a fortune of $395.4 million.[3]

In 2012, she ran for the Verkhovna Rada in the G215 constituency (Kyiv, Troieshchyna), but was defeated by Andriy Ilyenko, a candidate from the All-Ukrainian Union of Freedom.[4][5]

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