Oleksiy Orzhel

Oleksiy Orzhel
Олексій Оржель
Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine
In office 29 August 2019 – 4 March 2020
Prime Minister	Oleksiy Honcharuk
Preceded by	Ihor Nasalyk (Energy) Ostap Semerak (Environment)
Succeeded by	Vitaliy Shubin (Acting)[1]
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 29 August 2019 – 29 August 2019
Personal details
Born	Oleksiy Anatoliyovych Orzhel (1984-01-26) 26 January 1984 (age 41) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Servant of the People
Education	Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Occupation	energy expert politician

Oleksiy Anatoliyovych Orzhel (Ukrainian: Олексій Анатолійович Оржель; born 26 January 1984[2]) is a Ukrainian energy expert and politician.^[citation needed] He was Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine from August 2019 to 4 March 2020.[3][4]

Biography

Orzhel graduated from the Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.[5]

He was the Head of the Energy Sector at the Better Regulation Delivery Office.[6] From 2006 to 2014, Orzhel worked at the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities.[7]

Head of the Ukrainian Association of Renewable Energy.[7]

He was on a party list of the Servant of the People political party during the 2019 parliamentary elections,[8] yet himself is not a registered member of the party (non-partisan, according to the Central Election Commission).[9] Orzhel was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.[10] He surrendered his deputy mandate upon his ministerial appointment on 29 August 2019. On March 4, 2020, he was dismissed from the post of Minister.[11][12]

See also

• Honcharuk Government
• List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2019–24

References

1. Ukraine's government appoints Olha Buslavets acting energy minister, UNIAN (16)
2. "Оржель Олексій Анатолійович". Central Election Commission (in Ukrainian). Retrieved September 1, 2019.
3. Iwański, Tadeusz; Matuszak, Sławomir (2019-08-30). "Government of experts in Ukraine". Centre for Eastern Studies. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
4. Parliament votes to accept PM Honcharuk's resignation, Cabinet disbands PM Honcharuk's resignation was backed by parliament / 04 March 2020 / Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/m/politics/10901798-parliament-votes-to-accept-pm-honcharuk-s-resignation-cabinet-disbands.html
5. "Оржель Олексій Анатолійович". Government of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved September 1, 2019.
6. "Oleksii Orzhel". BRDO. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
7. "Meet the Ministers: What We Know About Ukraine's New Cabinet". Hromadske International. August 30, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
8. "President Zelenskyy Announces His Party Members". Hromadske International. June 9, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
9. "Народний депутат України". Верховна Рада України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved September 1, 2019.
10. "Some 254 MPs enter Rada from Servant of the People, 124 MPs from other parties, 46 MPs self-appointed". Interfax-Ukraine. July 26, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
11. Постанова Верховної Ради України від 4 березня 2020 р. «Про звільнення з посад членів Кабінету Міністрів України»
12. "Дивіться, хто прийшов. Новий уряд України в особах і фактах". nv.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-10-13.

External links

• Oleksiy Orzhel on Facebook