Hryhoriy Nemyria

Hryhoriy Nemyria is the first deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and deputy chairman of the Batkivshchyna party. In the previous Rada convocations, Dr Nemyria chaired the Committees on Human Rights, National Minorities and Inter-ethnic Relations and on European Integration. He served as deputy prime minister responsible for European and international integration in the government of prime minister Tymoshenko (2007- 2010). From 2006-2007, Dr Nemyria was the deputy head of the permanent parliamentary delegation to the PACE and the Ukrainian delegation to the Committee on Parliamentary Co-operation between Ukraine and the EU. He was governor from Ukraine in the World Bank. He also co-chaired the Ukraine-China, Ukraine-Germany, and Ukraine-Turkey inter-governmental commissions on trade and economic co-operation.

Dr Nemyria comes from Donetsk, where he began his academic career. He has an MA in History from Donetsk State University and a Ph.D. from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University. He became vice-rector of the National University of Kyiv’s Mohyla Academy and chaired the board of the International Renaissance Foundation. He is also a graduate of the Ukraine’s National Security Programme of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.