Viktor Pynzenyk | |
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Віктор Пинзеник | |
![]() Pynzenyk in 2013 | |
Minister of Finance of Ukraine | |
In office 18 December 2007 – 17 February 2009 | |
Preceded by | Mykola Azarov |
Succeeded by | Ihor Umansky (Acting) |
In office 4 February 2005 – 28 September 2005 28 September 2005 – August 2006 | |
Preceded by | Mykola Azarov |
Succeeded by | Mykola Azarov |
First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office 31 October 1994 – 5 September 1995 | |
Preceded by | Yevhen Marchuk |
Succeeded by | Pavlo Lazarenko |
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office 3 August 1995 – 21 September 1996 21 September 1996 – 7 April 1997 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Smolohovytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[1] | 15 April 1954
Political party | Independent (since 2010, before 2002)[2] |
Other political affiliations | Reforms and Order Party (1997–2010)[3] |
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 15 April 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance. He is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party.[2][3]
Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping to 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]