] Iryna Mykhailivna Akimova (; born on April 26, 1960, in

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) is a Ukrainian politician and former First Deputy Head of

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.Банкова обирає між Хорошковським і Акімовою?

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(14 February 2012) She held this post from February 2010 till February 2014.

Biography

Akimova was born in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

on 26 April 1960. In 1982, she graduated from the Economics Faculty of the

Kharkiv State University The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (), also known as Kharkiv National University or Karazin University, is a public university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin, becoming the second old ...

. She was the holder of

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, Volkswagen Stiftung, DAAD, and ACCEL fellowships.Акимова Ирина Михайловна- фото, биография// Акимова Ирина Михайловна на ЛІГА.Досье
File.liga.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-18. After April 2014, she moved away from politics and has been engaged in painting in Kyiv. In January 2022, she opened an exhibition showing her paintings.

Work and scientific activities

In the middle of the 1980s, Akimova passed her Ph.D. defense.

Positions and places of work

* Senior advisor to

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* Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in

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* Senior

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at the Center for Economic Research at

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* Research assistant at the Economics department of the

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* Director of the analytical center "Blakitna strіchka" Ltd. (Blue Ribbon)Ірина Акімова – Досьє – Вибори Президента України 2010, новини політики, усі кандидати на пост Президента України
President2010.info. Retrieved on 2013-06-18. * Assistant Professor of Management Department at

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* Director General of the analytical center "Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies" (Kyiv)

Political career

Since October 2007, Akimova has been a member of the

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. In November 2007 she was elected the Member of

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– No. 63 on the list. Akimova then worked as Deputy Head of the Committee in Verkhovna Rada on economic policy issues and took the position of Economy Minister in the opposition government of

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. Akimova is a frequent guest at political talk shows and is the public figure in the

. On February 25, 2010, Akimova was appointed the First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration.УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАИНЫ № 267/2010 – Официальное представительство Президента Украины
. President.gov.ua (2010-03-02). Retrieved on 2013-06-18. On March 16, 2010, she was appointed the Representative of the

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in the

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. After Andriy Klyuyev had left the post in mid-February 2012 Akimova was tipped as the new

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. But Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi was appointed instead.Khoroshkovsky dismissed as finance minister, appointed first deputy prime minister

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(22 February 2012) In October 2012 Akimova was re-elected into the

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on the party list of the

, but she turned down this mandate.Tigipko and Poroshenko registered as parliamentaries

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(4 December 2012)Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради

(11 November 2012) In late January 2014, by decrees of President Yanukovych Akimova was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Presidential Administration and appointed advisor to the President. In February 2014 Yanukovych was ousted from power.Ukraine crisis timeline

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In an April 2014 interview, she stated that she no longer is a member of the Party of Regions.

References

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Biography

Work and scientific activities

Positions and places of work

Political career

See also

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