Mykhailo Volodymyrovych Dovbenko (; born 31 October 1954) is a Ukrainian economist and politician who served as a

People's Deputy of Ukraine A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna R ...

in the

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, representing Ukraine's 84th electoral district.

Education

Graduated from the Faculty of Planned Economy of

Ternopil National Economic University The West Ukrainian National University, ( WUNU, ) is a state-sponsored university founded in 1966. It is located in the city of Ternopil, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. Previously: Ternopil National Economic University (TNEU, 2006-2020), Ternopi ...

, specialty "Agriculture Planning" (1976), post-graduate department of High School of Komsomol at Central Committee (CC). PhD (1989), Doctor of Economic Science (1998),

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of Academy of Science of High School of

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

(2016).

Work activity

* 1976–79 — junior scientist of the science-research sector, a teacher of the Economic Analysis Department of Ternopil Financial-Economic Institute, the main economist of Radcha village collective farm, Tysmenytsia District of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast * 1979–82 — the 1st secretary of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Committee of Lenin's Communist Society of Youth of Ukraine (LCSYU) * 1982–86 – the 1st secretary of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Committee of Lenin's Communist Society of Youth of Ukraine (LCSYU) * 1986–89 – post-graduate student of High Society of Youth School at Central Committee of Lenin's Communist Society of Youth * 1989–91 – the chairman of the Organizational Party Work of

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna () or simply Frankivshchyna, is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a pop ...

Committee of Communist Party of Ukraine. * 1991–93 – the main economist of currency transactions and foreign exchange transactions of Ivano-Frankivsk Director of JSCB "Ukraine"; Sector chairman, deputy of the chairman of the board"Zahidkoopbank",

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk (, ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also host ...

; * 1993–96 – the chairman of the boardof JSCB "Prut I K"; director of the affiliated institution Western Ukrainian Commercial Bank * January 1997 – 2000 – Director of Vynnytsia affiliated institution of "Pravex-Bank", a Chief Manager of

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

JSCB "Ukraine" Board of Bank Directors * 1999–2014 – a director of the Open Policy Institute; * Author (co-author) of more than 150 scientific works, in particular, "Economic Encyclopedia" in III volumes (co-author); a book "Prominent Strangers", "Modern Economic Theory (Economic nobelelogia)" (translated into Russian, Kazakh), "The Crisis of Economy is not the crisis of Science".

Party activity

* Was a manager of election campaign office of Perto Poroshenko in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast at presidential elections in 2014. November 27, 2014 – People's deputy of Ukraine of the VIIIth convocation, party "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" * The 1st deputy of the chairman of the

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...

Committee on Financial Policy and Banking. * "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" party bloc, the head of Expert Rada "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...

Dovbenko failed as a candidate for

European Solidarity European Solidarity (, ; , YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its the ...

in constituency 84 (in

) to get reelected to parliament. He lost this election with 12.88% of the vote to Ihor Fris (who won with 22,01% of the votes).

Sports achievements

* Master of Sports of the

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in rowing and

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ing (1975)

Awards

Order of the Badge of Honour (1986).

References

External links

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Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, official web portal
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