Novitsky Vladimir
Life Path
Date of Birth: 09.09.1947
Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Rysovata, Shepetivka district, Khmelnytskyi region. In 1970, he graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Chemical Technology Institute with a degree in 'Chemical Technology Engineer'.
Career. From 1972 to 1991, V. Novitsky worked at the State Research and Design Institute of Methanol and Organic Synthesis Products in Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region. He started as a junior researcher and then headed the laboratory. In 1984, he became the head of the research institute.
In 1991-1992, he served as Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of Ukraine on Chemical, Petrochemical Industry and Pharmaceutical Production.
From 1992 to 1995, he was Deputy Minister and First Deputy Minister of Industry of Ukraine.
From 1995 to 1999, he was Deputy Chairman of the Collegium of the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union of the CIS (Moscow).
From 1999 to 2000, he was Chairman of the State Innovation Fund of Ukraine.
From 2000 to 2001, he headed the State Committee on Industrial Policy of Ukraine.
In 2002-2003, he worked as a consultant to the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.
From 2003 to 2005, he served as Deputy Minister of Industrial Policy of Ukraine.
In 2005-2006, he was the General Director of the International Center for Financial and Economic Development.
In August 2006, Vladimir Novitsky returned to the post of Deputy Minister of Industrial Policy, where he led the chemical industry.
On December 18, 2007, shortly after the formation of the parliamentary coalition between BYuT and the 'Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense' bloc, he was appointed Minister of Industrial Policy in Yulia Tymoshenko's government. The loss of this position was associated with the resignation of the Cabinet after Viktor Yanukovych won the presidential elections.
Since February 2000 - professor of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Editor-in-Chief of the scientific and production journal 'Chemical Industry of Ukraine'.
Views and Assessments. According to Ukrayinska Pravda, how Vladimir Novitsky's candidacy passed to the post of Head of the Ministry of Industrial Policy remains a mystery to members of the Tymoshenko Bloc, which, according to the coalition agreement, received the economic block in the government.
The publication noted that before being appointed a government official, Vladimir Novitsky was Deputy Minister of Industrial Policy Anatoly Golovko - the former mayor of Zaporizhzhia and a close associate of Russian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin. The latter owns several Ukrainian enterprises and has interests in various sectors of the economy, including industry. Other allies of Grigorishin - the parliamentary faction of the Communist Party of Ukraine - recently did not create any particular obstacles for Yulia Tymoshenko’s Bloc in the Verkhovna Rada (before the election of a new Prime Minister and government). Thus, it is possible that the portfolio of Minister of Industrial Policy became a kind of payment for loyalty.
Shortly after his appointment to the government, Vladimir Novitsky stated in an interview with the newspaper 'Kommersant' that he wanted to be not 'the director of 468 enterprises', but a real Minister of Industrial Policy. He stated that the Ministry would develop a number of programs for each industry by the end of the first quarter of the next year. 'Special attention is to be paid to the defense industry, which in its current form is uncompetitive,' said Vladimir Novitsky.
The minister believed that such a form of association as a corporation (actively practiced by Viktor Yanukovych's government) is not quite suitable for Ukrainian state enterprises: if they create a common product, a stricter vertical than a corporation is required.
Supports the privatization of all Ukrainian chemical industry enterprises, including the Odesa Port Plant (however, without its serviced ammonia pipeline). He supports Ukraine's accession to the WTO, but in his view, the 'CIS' EEC would be beneficial for Ukrainian enterprises.
Awards. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1990), Professor (2002). Laureate of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Prize (1983), State Prize of Ukraine in the field of Science and Technology (2002). Honored worker of industry of Ukraine (1996).
09.09.2022.