14 Facts About Denys Shmyhal

Denys Shmyhal holds the PhD-equivalent title of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

From his graduation in 1997 until September 2005, Denys Shmyhal worked as an accountant in various companies.

From September 2005 to June 2006, Denys Shmyhal was Deputy General Director of a company called "LA DIS".

From September 2008 to September 2009, Denys Shmyhal was General Director of a company called "Rosaninvest LLC".

Denys Shmyhal worked in multiple leading political roles in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast from 2009 until December 2013.

Denys Shmyhal then became the Head of the Department of Economics and Industrial Policy for the whole of 2012.

From May 2014 to December 2014, Denys Shmyhal worked as Deputy Head of the Lviv Oblast regional office of the Ministry of Revenues and Duties.

Denys Shmyhal served as Vice President of Lviv-based frozen goods distributor TVK Lvivkholod from 2015 to 2017.

From 2018 to 2019, Denys Shmyhal served as Director of the Burshtyn TES which is the largest electricity producer in Ivano-Frankivsk, and is part of Rinat Akhmetov's holdings.

From 1 August 2019 until his prime ministerial appointment, Denys Shmyhal was the Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

Denys Shmyhal replaced Oleksiy Honcharuk as the prime minister of Ukraine in March 2020.

In 2021, Denys Shmyhal was included in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians, according to the weekly magazine Focus.

In January 2024, Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention accused Denys Shmyhal of exposing the identity of a whistleblower who had reported wrongdoing by the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries.

Denys Shmyhal sold her shares in these companies in 2019.