Hryhoriy Nemyria

Hryhoriy Nemyria is the first deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine and deputy chairman of the Batkivshchyna Party. In the previous Rada convocations, Mr Nemyria chaired the Committees on European integration and on human rights.

He served as deputy prime minister in the government of prime minister Tymoshenko (2007-10). He was governor from Ukraine in the World Bank and co-chairman of the Ukraine-China Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation. From 2006-07, Mr Nemyria was the deputy head of the parliamentary delegation to the PACE and the Ukrainian delegation to the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. In Ms Tymoshenko’s first government (2005), he served as her foreign policy adviser.

Hryhoriy Nemyria comes from Donetsk where he began his academic career. He has an MA in history from Donetsk University and a PhD from Kyiv Shevchenko University. He became vice-rector of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and chaired the European Integration Department of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is also a graduate of the National Security Programme at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.