Valentyn Maksymovich Koronevsky (; born 19 April 1950) is a Ukrainian economist and politician who was formerly the

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from 1996 to 1997, and the deputy

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of the

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from 1997 to 1999.

Biography

Early life and education

Koronevsky is born on 19 April 1950 in the city of

Izmail Izmail (, ; ; , or ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality on the Danube river in Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Izmail Raion, one of seven distr ...

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, and he received his diplomas from the Odesa College of Finance and Economics in 1968, and

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in 1973, majoring in accounting.

Career

Prior to Koronevsky's ministerial role, he had held several early positions such as an economist of the financial department from August 1968 to March 1972; a senior economist from March 1972 to November 1975; the head of the local economy financing department from November 1975 to August 1985; the deputy head of the financial department and head of the budget department from August 1985 to May 1987; the deputy head of the financial department from May 1987 to October 1990; the head of the financial department of the executive committee of the

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia ...

Regional Council of People's Deputies from October 1990 to December 1995; the head of the financial department of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration from December 1995 to June 1996. Koronevsky was named Minister of Finance of Ukraine, representative of Ukraine in the

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(EBRD) from 18 June 1996 to 25 February 1997. Later from August 1996 to 1997, he became a member of the

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. Followed by being appointed as the deputy chairman of the Board of the State Savings Bank of Ukraine from April 1997 to 1999. From September 1999 to 22 August 2011, he became the deputy chairman of the Board of the Pension Fund of Ukraine. He made a business trip to the

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from 19 to 20 November 2008, to familiarize with the operations of the Fund's offices in the Novoodeske neighborhood and the cities of Yuzhnoukrainsk and

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on 19 November 2008, moreover to particular attention to the concerns of filling the Fund's budget and the situation with financing the payment of pensions and cash assistance during the visit to the sub-departmental offices. On 14 July 2010, he was one of the representatives of Ukraine in the National Tripartite Socio-Economic Council.

Personal life

Koronevsky is married to Alla Oleksiivna, and had a son named Dmytro in 1974.

Honours

He has received the following honours: * Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (April 2000) * Honorary Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2005) * Merited Economist of Ukraine (November 2006)

References

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