Pavlo Anatoliyovych Klymets (Ukrainian: Павло Анатолійович Климець) (born 23 July 1967) is a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine.
He is a member of the Party of Regions.
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Klymets was born in the city of Donetsk, Ukraine.
He graduated from the Donetsk Technical College of Industrial Automation and from the Donetsk National University with a degree in finance. In 2006 he defended his dissertation and received a PhD in governance.
Klymets’s professional career began in 1985, when he worked as an electrical fitter in the Donetskshahtoprohidka trust.
In 1992 he took the post of director of the Pobutekhnika CLSC.
In 1997 he became director of Olimp company and later became chairman of its board.
His political career started in 2004, when he joined the Party of Regions.
In 2006, Klymets was elected as a deputy from the Party of Regions to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, fifth convocation.
He headed the Rada finance and banking committee’s subcommittee on the management of the alcohol and tobacco markets.
Since 2007 he has been a deputy in the Rada of the sixth convocation and a member of the Rada Committee on AIC and land policy.
Since 2009 he has been a member of the temporary investigative commission on the investigation of inefficient use of government assets in the AIC field.
Klymets realized a unique project: the Malynivka manufacturing agro-industrial complex (cluster). The complex, 40 km from Kharkiv, was built from scratch and consists of four enterprises: a bottling plant, a packing materials plant, a glass manufacturing plant and an advanced and integrated grain processing complex.
In 2009, Klymets initiated the establishment of the Donetsk bank union¹, which he currently heads.
In 2009, Mr. Klymets also founded the Ukraine-Middle East Business Council Center to develop business and cultural relations between Ukraine and the Persian Gulf countries.
Klymets has developed and introduced several bills to facilitate the development of Ukraine’s agricultural industry, regarding charges for licenses for the alcohol and tobacco market, regarding changing tax rates for the development of viticulture, horticulture and hop-growing, to develop biofuels, to support agricultural enterprises.
Klymets is married and has two sons and a daughter.
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