Andriy Zahorodniuk
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Biography
Andriy Pavlovych Zahorodniuk (Ukrainian: Андрій Павлович Загороднюк; born 5 December 1976) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. On 29 August 2019, he was appointed as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine.
Biography
He studied law at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He also graduated from Warwick University and Oxford University.
Zahorodniuk is the CEO of Discovery Drilling Equipment.
From 2015 to 2017, he headed the Reform Project Office at the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Since 2018, he is a member of the Reform Project Office under the Ministry of Defense.
Advisor to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
On 9 July 2019, President Zelensky appointed Zahorodniuk to serve as a Member of the Supervisory Board at Ukroboronprom.