Viktor Pynzenyk
Viktor Mychailowytsch Pynsenyk ( born April 15, 1954 in Smolohowyzja, Rajon Irshava, Transcarpathian Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was 1992-1993, 2005-2006 and 2007-2009 Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
Viktor Pynsenyk is a Member of Parliament since 1991. In advance of the 2002 parliamentary elections, he was involved in the founding of the party alliance Nasha Ukraine Corporation (NU ) of the current President Viktor Yushchenko. After the elections, he belonged to the Group of NU in the Verkhovna Rada. Pynsenyk is a founding member and chairman of the Reforms and Order Party ( Реформи і порядок PRP), which moved from NU to Blok Juliji Tymoshenko, 2006.
Career
Pynsenyk studied at the Lviv Ivan Franko State University, where he graduated as an economist in 1975, where he continued working as an assistant and lecturer. Since 1989 he was a PhD student at the Moscow State University and defended there his "great " thesis. Since 1990 he has held a professorship at the Economic University of Lviv.
In December 1991, he was elected as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, where he worked primarily in the commissions for economic reform and the economy.
From October 1992 to April 1993 he was Minister of Economy and parallel until August 1993, Deputy Prime Minister in the government. He then became chairman of a foundation to support reforms in the country.
From March 1994 to March 1998 Pynsenyk was again a member of parliament, as well as temporary ( September 1996-April 1997 ) Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and reform issues in the government Lazarenko. In Western advisors he was esteemed as "the architect of reforms" (FES ). In April 1997, he resigned, however, disappointed by the lack of will to reform the prime minister, left the government.
He then worked as an economic adviser to the president and then as deputy and in several parliamentary reform commissions. Since 2002 he was one of the guided of Viktor Yushchenko Nasha Ukraina block.
On 4 February 2005, the Parliament confirmed Pynsenyks Minister of Finance in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko. In the same year he and other members of his party PRP from the NU came out and formed their own parliamentary group.
In the parliamentary elections of 2006 failed the PRP, which together with the party Pora! had set out at the three- percent threshold and Pynsenyk reached for the first time since 1991 no parliamentary mandate.
On 2 December 2006, the PRP declared their entry into the Blok Juliji Tymoshenko, with which they again moved in with the 2007 parliamentary elections in the Rada.
After the 2007 parliamentary elections, he was elected on 18 December 2007 as the new finance minister in the second government of Yulia Tymoshenko.
On 12 February 2009 Pynsenyk announced his resignation as the financial policy of the government is contrary to his convictions of a sustainable fiscal policy in the context of the triggered by the international financial crisis, severe economic crisis in Ukraine.
Pynsenyk is an Honorary Doctor of the Kiev- Mohyla Academy and the University of Economics in Ternopil. He is married and has two daughters and a son.