Grigori Nemirya

Date of Birth: 05.04.1960

Grigori Mikhailovitch Nemirya - Ukrainian politician, historian, political scientist. Deputy Prime Minister in the second government of Yulia Tymoshenko (2007-2010). Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Batkivshchyna party.

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Donetsk. In 1982, he graduated from the Historical Department of Donetsk State University. PhD in Historical Sciences.

Career. After his studies and military service, Nemirya became a lecturer in the Department of Ukrainian History and Ethnopolitics at Donetsk State University, as well as a lecturer at the Donetsk State Academy of Administration, Vice President of the regional association of young historians and political scientists.

In 1992, he founded and led the Center for Political Science Research at Donetsk State University (he led it until 1996). At the same time, he was a doctoral student at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and organized the first Polish-Ukrainian sociology school. From 1996 to 1998, he was Vice-Rector of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since 1998, he has been the head of the Department of European Integration at the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.

He held the position of Chairman of the Board of the International Revival Fund for seven years, which is part of the network of funds of the world-famous financier and philanthropist George Soros. He was the director of the Center for European and International Studies at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, editor-in-chief of the magazine Neue Sicherheit. He taught at the Institute of Political Sciences in Bordeaux, at the NATO College in Rome.

Nemirya is an honorary member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, Washington), a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS, London), and a member of the advisory board of 'Freedom House' regarding Central and Eastern Europe.

Political Career. In March 2006, he became a member of the V Parliament on the list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. He was the chairman of the subcommittee on Eurointegration and Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Parliament. Later, he became Deputy Chairman of the BYuT parliamentary faction. He was an advisor to Yulia Tymoshenko on international affairs.

After the early parliamentary elections in the fall of 2007, he became a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the VI convocation. After the formation of the democratic coalition with NU NS and BYuT, he became Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs. He lost his position due to the resignation of the Tymoshenko government after Viktor Yanukovych won the presidential elections.

From December 2012 to November 2014, he was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the VII convocation for the Batkivshchyna party (No. 7 on the list). Chairman of the Parliament Committee on European Integration. Member of the Batkivshchyna party.

On October 25, 2014, he was elected to the Ukrainian Parliament of the VIII convocation on the party list of the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna, No. 7 on the party list. In Parliament, he is a member of the Batkivshchyna party faction. Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities, and Interethnic Relations.

In the early Parliamentary elections of 2019, he was elected a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the IX convocation from the party Batkivshchyna, No. 8 on the party list.

Family. Married. Wife - Lyudmila Ivanovna - producer, director. The family is raising their son Mikhail (born in 1997).

Hobby. The greatest passion is reading, especially biographies and memoirs of famous politicians.

22.12.2023