Oleksiy Liubchenko
{{Short description|Ukrainian politician (born 1971)}}
{{family name hatnote|Mykolayovych|Liubchenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
| order = 24th
| name = Oleksiy Liubchenko
| appointer = Verkhovna Rada
| term_start = 20 May 2021
| term_end = 3 November 2021
| predecessor = Stepan Kubiv
| successor = Yulia Svyrydenko
| image = Любченко Олексій Миколайович.png
| president = Volodymyr Zelenskyy
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|09|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = Horodyshche Raion, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
| birth_name = Oleksiy Mikolayovich Lyubchenko
| native_name_lang = uk
| native_name = {{nobold|Олексій Любченко}}
| caption = Official portrait, 2021
}}
Oleksiy Mykolayovych Liubchenko ({{langx|uk|Олексій Миколайович Любченко}}, {{IPA|uk|ɔ.lekˈsʲij me.kɔˈla.jɔ.ʋet͡ʃ lʲubˈt͡ʃɛn.kɔ|IPA}}; born 21 September 1971) is a Ukrainian politician who served as First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine from 20 May 2021 to 3 November 2021{{Cite web |title=Rada dismisses Liubchenko from post of First Dpty PM, Economy Minister |url=https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/777273.html |access-date=28 September 2022 |website=Interfax |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Parliament dismisses First Deputy Prime Minister Liubchenko |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3344149-parliament-dismisses-first-deputy-prime-minister-liubchenko.html |access-date=28 September 2022 |website=Ukrinform |language=en}} and Minister of Economy.{{Cite web |title=Lyubchenko Oleksiy |url=https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/profile/oleksiy-lyubchenko |website=Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine|access-date=21 April 2025}}
Biography
Liubchenko was born in the district of Horodyshche, Cherkasy Oblast in Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=Rada appoints Liubchenko as First Dpty PM, Minister of Economy – 293 affirmative votes |url=https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/745255.html |access-date=28 September 2022 |website=Interfax-Ukraine |language=en}} After graduating from high school, he spent some time working at the Smila Machine Building Plant.{{cite news |title=Олексій Любченко: біографія, освіта, досвід у податковій службі |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430214135/https://aspi.com.ua/news/politika/scho-vidomo-pro-novogo-ochilnika-podatkovoi-sluzhbi-oleksiya-lyubchenka-dose |access-date=21 April 2025 |work=ASPI |date=30 April 2020}} From 1988 to 1993 he studied at the Kyiv National Economic University, graduating with a specialty of economics and social planning. After a graduating for a year he worked as an expert in the macroeconomics program at the Center for Market Reforms in Kyiv, but returned to Smila at end of the year where he got a job working in Smila's city council. At the council council he became a senior economist and was then head of the dpeartment of communal property and entrepreneurship.{{cite news |title=Нелюстрированный чиновник: биография Алексея Любченко |url=https://24tv.ua/ru/aleksej-ljubchenko-biografija-kompromat-skandaly-kto-jeto_n1630923 |access-date=21 April 2025 |work=24 Канал |date=19 May 2021 |language=ru}} In 1998 he became deputy mayor and Deputy Head of the Department of Economics to the Governor of Cherkasy Oblast.{{cite news |title=Любченко стал министром экономики и вице-премьером: что о нем известно |url=https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/lyubchenko-stal-ministrom-ekonomiki-vitse-1621498802.html |access-date=21 April 2025 |work=РБК-Украина |date=20 May 2021 |language=uk}}
In 1999 he went to work for the state tax administration of the Kirovohrad Oblast, in May becoming First Deputy Head of the administration. In 2003 he became head of the state tax administration in the Cherkasy Oblast, a position he held until 2005 when he became Deputy Chairman of the Kirovohrad Oblast State Administration. In 2007 he became a doctoral student at the Council for the Study of the Productive Forces of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, graduating in 2009 whereupon he became Deputy Chairman of the state tax administration.{{cite news |title=Алексей Любченко: что известно о новом главе Минэкономики, биография Любченко |url=https://tsn.ua/ru/ukrayina/minekonomiki-vozglavil-aleksey-lyubchenko-chto-izvestno-o-novom-ministre-1788091.html |access-date=21 April 2025 |work=ТСН |date=20 May 2021 |language=ru}}
Personal life
He is fluent in German and is married with a son named Andrei who was born in 1994.{{cite news |title=Верховная Рада назначила Любченко новым министром экономики |url=https://finance.liga.net/ekonomika/novosti/rada-naznachila-lyubchenko-novym-ministrom-ekonomiki |access-date=21 April 2025 |work=LIGA |date=20 May 2021 |language=ru}}
Awards
References
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Category:People from Cherkasy Oblast
Category:21st-century Ukrainian politicians
Category:Kyiv National Economic University alumni
Category:Economy ministers of Ukraine
Category:First vice prime ministers of Ukraine
Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class