
Volodymyr Groysman (born 20 January 1978) was Prime Minster of Ukraine from 14 April 2016 to 29 August 2019, succeeding Arseniy Yatsenyuk and preceding Oleksiy Honcharuk.
Biography[]
Volodymyr Groysman was born on 20 January 1978 in Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union to a family of Ukrainian Jews. In 2002, he was elected to the city council, and on 27 February 2014 he was appointed Vice Prime Minister for Regional Policy and Minister of Regional Development while a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Groysman was elected to parliament and became Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada on 27 November 2014, becoming head of parliament. Groysman served as acting Prime Minister after Arseniy Yatsenyuk's resignation, and on 14 April 2016 he was voted in as Prime Minister of Ukraine. He became the leader of the social democratic Ukrainian Strategy party ahead of the 2019 elections, but his party failed to attain electoral success, and he was replaced as Prime Minister by Volodymyr Zelensky's ally Oleksiy Honcharuk in August 2019.