Viktor Pynzenyk

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Viktor Pynzenyk Віктор Пинзеник
Viktor Pynzenyk speaking at the Reforms and Order Party's XII convention.
Minister of Finance of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office  December 18, 2007
Preceded by	Mykola Azarov
In office February 4, 2005 – September 28, 2005 September 28, 2005 – August 2006
Preceded by	Mykola Azarov
Succeeded by	Mykola Azarov
First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office October 31, 1994 – September 5, 1995
Preceded by	Yevhen Marchuk
Succeeded by	Pavlo Lazarenko
Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office August 3, 1995 – September 21, 1996 September 21, 1996 – April 7, 1997
Born	April 15, 1954 (1954-04-15) (age 54) Smolohovytsia, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
Political party	Reforms and Order Party as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc[2]
Spouse	Maria Romanivna (1969)[3]
Children	Olga (1981), Yulia (1989), and Volodymyr (1993)[3]
Occupation	Politician, economist and professor

Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник) (born April 15, 1954 in Smolohovytsia, Zakarpattia Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and professor.

Viktor Pynzenyk currently serves as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine in the Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Cabinet, elected on December 18, 2007. He is the leader of the Reforms and Order Party, elected to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping transform the country into a market economy and introducing Ukraine's new currency, the hryvnia in September 1996, with the help of Viktor Yushchenko, at the time Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.^[4]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Political and economic career 3 Personal life 4 References and footnotes 5 External links

[edit] Early life

Viktor Pynzenyk was born on April 15, 1954 in Smolohovytsia, in the westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) to Mykhailo and Mariya Pynzenyk. After completing his secondary education, Pynzenyk studied at the Lviv State University, from which he graduated in 1975 as as an economist.^[2] He stayed on in the same university until 1979 for the post-graduate work on his dissertation in Economics which he defended in 1980 receiving the degree of Candidate of Science (roughly Ph. D. equivalent). He continued his scientific work in the Moscow State University where he received his Doktor of Science degree in 1989.^[2] A year later, Pynzenyk became a professor of economics at his alma mater—the Lviv University.^[2]

[edit] Political and economic career

Pynzenyk was sworn in to Ukrainian parliament on January 4, 1992,^[5] and soon afterwards became a member of the economic reforms working group. Later that year, he became the Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine as well as the Minister of Economy.^[2][6] As minister, Pynzenyk introduced the first economic reforms in the newly independent Ukraine, helping transform the country into a market economy.^[4]

In March 1992, Pynzenyk was elected to the second convocation of the parliament as part of the "Reforms" faction, serving his mandate until April 1998.^[2] As an MP, he participated in the finance and banking work group.^[2] From October 31, 1994 until September 5, 1995, he served as the country's First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine,^[7] and from August 3, 1995 to April 7, 1997—as the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Viktor was elected to Verkhovna Rada for the third time in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election serving from March 1998 until the next election in 2002.^[2] In 2002, Pynzenyk was elected as part of the "Our Ukraine" electoral bloc. Three years later, after the Orange Revolution, Pynzenyk was chosen as the Minister of Economy^[8] on February 4, 2005, and served his post until August 2006. Then on November 3, 2007, he became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the sixth convocation as a member of the Reforms and Order Party, which participated in the elections as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.^[2] He is now a substitute of the bloc's parliamentary leader.

[edit] Personal life

Despite his career in politics, Viktor Pynzenyk is remains a professor at the Lviv University. He has been named an honorary professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and the Economics Institute of Ternopil. Additionally, he has been named an "Honored Economist of Ukraine" (as of 2004).^[9]

Viktor Pynzenyk is married to Mariya Romanivna (b. 1969), and they have two children:sons Volodymyr (b.1993) and Vitaliy (b.2007). He also has two daughters from the previous marriage Olga (b. 1981) and Yulia (b. 1989). Pynzenyk's hobbies include tourism, an interest in music, as well as playing the preferans game.^[3] His income declaration for 2006 constituted 265,200 hryvnias ($53,000).^[10] He drives a Toyota RAV4 and a Toyota 4Runner.^[10]

[edit] References and footnotes

[edit] External links

• Official website (English). Ministry of finance of Ukraine. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
• Pynzenyk Viktor Mykhailovych (Ukrainian). Yedyna-Ukrayina. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.

Political offices
Preceded by Mykola Azarov	Minister of Finance of Ukraine 2007–	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Yevhen Marchuk	First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine 1994–1995	Succeeded by Pavlo Lazarenko
Party political offices
Preceded by None	Leader of the Reforms and Order Party 1997–	Succeeded by Incumbent

Persondata
NAME	Pynzenyk, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Politician, economist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Smolohovytsia, Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH