Iryna Akimova in [2013]

Iryna Mykhailivna Akimova (Ukrainian: Ірина Михайлівна Акімова; born on April 26, 1960, in Kharkiv, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian politician and former First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine.[1][2] She held this post from February 2010 till February 2014.[1]

Biography

Akimova was born in Kharkiv on 26 April 1960.[1] In 1982, she graduated from the Economics Faculty of the Kharkiv State University. She was the holder of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Volkswagen Stiftung, DAAD, and ACCEL fellowships.[1]

After April 2014, she moved away from politics and is engaged in painting in Kyiv. In January 2022, she opened an exhibition showing her paintings, painted since 2017.[3]

Work and scientific activities

In the middle of the 1980s, Akimova passed her Ph.D. defense.

Positions and places of work

  • senior advisor to Victor Yanukovych and his government on devising non-working reforms, which misled Ukrainian people and international organisations and allowed the regime to continue.
  • director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in Kyiv.
  • senior research fellow at the Center for Economic Research at Warsaw University.
  • research assistant at the Economics department of the University of Magdeburg.
  • director of the analytical center "Blakitna strіchka" Ltd. (Blue Ribbon).[4]
  • Assistant Professor of Management Department at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute.
  • Director General of the analytical center "Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies" (Kyiv)[5] – at the time of elections in 2007.

Political career

Since October 2007 Akimova has been a member of the Party of Regions.[6] In November 2007 she was elected the Member of Parliament – No. 63 on the list.[4][7] Akimova then worked as Deputy Head of the Committee in Verkhovna Rada on economic policy issues and took the position of Economy Minister in the opposition government of Viktor Yanukovych.[1] Akimova is a frequent guest at political talk shows and is the public figure in the Party of Regions.

On February 25, 2010, Akimova was appointed the First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration.[8] On March 16, 2010, she was appointed the Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.[8]

After Andriy Klyuyev had left the post in mid-February 2012 Akimova was tipped as the new First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.[2] But Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi was appointed instead.[9]

In October 2012 Akimova was re-elected into the Ukrainian parliament on the party list of the Party of Regions, but she turned down this mandate.[10][11]

In late January 2014, by decrees of President Yanukovych Akimova was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Presidential Administration and appointed advisor to the President.[12] In February 2014 Yanukovych was ousted from power.[13] In an April 2014 interview, she stated that she no longer is a member of the Party of Regions.[12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Акимова Ирина Михайловна- фото, биография// Акимова Ирина Михайловна на ЛІГА.Досье. File.liga.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
  2. 1 2 (in Ukrainian) Банкова обирає між Хорошковським і Акімовою?, Ukrayinska Pravda (14 February 2012)
  3. ↑ Афиша Киева на 19-25 января 2022 года
  4. 1 2 Ірина Акімова – Досьє – Вибори Президента України 2010, новини політики, усі кандидати на пост Президента України. President2010.info. Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
  5. ↑ Irina Akimova MP, Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Committee of Economic Policy. debaty.org
  6. ↑ Ирина Акимова" KievSMI: Новости Киева. KievSMI (2010-02-26). Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
  7. ↑ Ирина Акимова. Досье и компромат. Politrada.com (2011-12-29). Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
  8. 1 2 УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАИНЫ № 267/2010 – Официальное представительство Президента Украины Archived 2012-08-25 at the Wayback Machine. President.gov.ua (2010-03-02). Retrieved on 2013-06-18.
  9. ↑ Khoroshkovsky dismissed as finance minister, appointed first deputy prime minister, Interfax Ukraine (22 February 2012)
  10. ↑ Tigipko and Poroshenko registered as parliamentaries, Kyiv Post (4 December 2012)
  11. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012)
  12. 1 2 Акимова Ирина Михайловна [Akimova Irina Mikhailovna]. liga.net (in Russian). 2013-08-31. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  13. ↑ Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
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