Introduction
Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal (Ukrainian: Денис Анатолійович Шмигаль; born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Biography
In 1997, he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic. Holds the title of Candidate of Economic Sciences (2003).
Shmyhal worked as the Head of the Department of Economics at the Lviv Regional State Administration.
He also worked for the Ministry of Revenues and Duties.
He served as Vice President of Lviv-based frozen goods distributor TVK Lvivkholod from 2015 to 2017.
From 2018 to 2019, Shmyhal served as Director of the Burshtyn TES which is the largest electricity producer in Ivano-Frankivsk and is part of Rinat Akhmetov's holdings.
From 1 August 2019, until his ministerial appointment Shmyhal was the Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
On 4 February 2020, he was appointed Minister of Regional Development.
Shmyhal replaced Oleksiy Honcharuk as the Prime Minister of Ukraine in March 2020.