Iryna Akimova
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Iryna Mykhailivna Akimova (Ukrainian: Ірина Михайлівна Акімова; born on April 26, 1960 in Kharkiv, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian politician and former First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine[1][2] She held this post from February 2010 till February 2014.[1]
Biography
Akimova was born in Kharkiv, on 26 April 1960.[1] In 1982 she graduated from the Economics Faculty of the Kharkiv State University. She was the holder of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Volkswagen Stiftung, DAAD and ACCEL fellowships.[1]
Work and scientific activities
In the middle of the 1980s, Akimova passed her Ph.D. defense.
Positions and places of work
- senior advisor to Yanukovych and his government on devising non-working reforms, which misled Ukrainian people and international organisations and allowed the regime to continue
- director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in Kyiv
- senior research fellow at the Center for Economic Research at Warsaw University
- research assistant at the Economics department of the University of Magdeburg
- director of the analytical center "Blakitna strіchka" Ltd. (Blue Ribbon)[3]
- Assistant Professor of Management department at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
- Director General of the analytical center "Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies" (Kyiv)[4] – at the time of elections in 2007
Political career
Since October 2007 Akimova has been the member of the Party of Regions.[5] In November 2007 she was elected the Member of Parliament – No. 63 in the list.[3][6] 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 Viktor Yanukovych.[1] Akimova is a frequent guest at political talk shows and is the public figure in the Party of Regions.
On February 25, 2010 Akimova was appointed the First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration[7] On March 16, 2010 she was appointed the Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine[7]
After Andriy Klyuyev had left the post mid-February 2012 Akimova was tipped as the new First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.[2] But Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi was appointed instead.[8]
In October 2012 Akimova was re-elected into the Ukrainian parliament on the party list of Party of Regions; but she turned down this mandate.[9][10]
Late January 2014 by decrees of President Yanukovych Akimova was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Presidential Administrationand appointed advisor to the President.[11] In February 2014 Yanukovych was ousted from power.[12] In an April 2014 interview she stated that she no longer is a member of the Party of Regions.[11]
References
- ^ a b c d e Акимова Ирина Михайловна- фото, биография// Акимова Ирина Михайловна на ЛІГА.Досье. File.liga.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Банкова обирає між Хорошковським і Акімовою?, Ukrayinska Pravda (14 February 2012)
- ^ a b Ірина Акімова – Досьє – Вибори Президента України 2010, новини політики, усі кандидати на пост Президента України. President2010.info. Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
- ^ Irina Akimova MP, Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Committee of Economic Policy. debaty.org
- ^ Ирина Акимова » KievSMI: Новости Киева. KievSMI (2010-02-26). Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
- ^ Ирина Акимова. Досье и компромат. Politrada.com (2011-12-29). Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
- ^ a b УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАИНЫ № 267/2010 – Официальное представительство Президента Украины Archived 2012-08-25 at the Wayback Machine. President.gov.ua (2010-03-02). Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
- ^ Khoroshkovsky dismissed as finance minister, appointed first deputy prime minister, Interfax Ukraine (22 February 2012)
- ^ Tigipko and Poroshenko registered as parliamentaries, Kyiv Post (4 December 2012)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012)
- ^ a b Акимова Ирина Михайловна [Akimova Irina Mikhailovna]. liga.net (in Russian). 2013-08-31. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
- ^ Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
See also
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Politicians from Kharkiv
- Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Party of Regions politicians
- National University of Kharkiv alumni
- Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute academic personnel
- 21st-century Ukrainian politicians
- 21st-century Ukrainian women politicians
- Women members of the Verkhovna Rada