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]

Pavlo Kukhta
Павло Кухта
Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture
In office
4 March 2020 – 17 March 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byTymofiy Mylovanov
Succeeded byIhor Petrashko
Personal details
Born (1985-12-03) 3 December 1985 (age 38)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Political partyVoice
SpouseIuliia Mendel
EducationIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Aspen Institute
OccupationEconomist
politician

Biography

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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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Павел Кухта". Экономическая правда (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Cabinet appoints acting economic minister". LB.ua. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Про тимчасове покладення виконання обов'язків Міністра розвитку економіки, торгівлі та сільського господарства України на Кухту П. А." Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Кухта Павло Андрійович". Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  5. ^ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
  6. ^ "Про призначення Кухти П. А. першим заступником Міністра розвитку економіки, торгівлі та сільського господарства України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Про звільнення Кухти П. А. з посади першого заступника Міністра розвитку економіки, торгівлі та сільського господарства України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  8. ^ «Немає слів, щоб описати, що означає його відпустити». Юлія Мендель повідомила, що її коханий Павло Кухта пішов на передову, НВ, 27 березня 2022
  9. ^ МЕНДЕЛЬ ПОКАЗАЛА ФОТО З КОХАНИМ, ЯКИЙ ПОВЕРНУВСЯ З ПЕРЕДОВОЇ Українська правда, 21 квітня 2022
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