Serhiy Marchenko

Sergii Marchenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Михайлович Марченко; born 24 January 1981[1]) is a Ukrainian economist and politician.[2] PhD degree in economics (2009). Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2016–2018), Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine (2018–2019). On 30 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine.[3]

Serhiy Marchenko
Сергій Марченко
Minister of Finance
Assumed office
30 March 2020
Prime MinisterDenys Shmygal
Preceded byIhor Umansky
Personal details
Born
Serhiy Mykhaylovych Marchenko

(1981-01-24) 24 January 1981
Makariv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUkrainian Strategy of Groysman
EducationAcademy of the State Tax Service
Occupationeconomist
politician

Biography

In 2002 Marchenko graduated from the State Tax Service Academy with the Master's degree in Public Finance Management (diploma with honours, the President of Ukraine scholar in 2001–2002).

In 2009 he obtained a PhD degree in economics (Candidate of Economic Sciences).[4]

Starting from 2002 Mr. Marchenko worked on several positions in the Ministry of Finance, State Tax Administration, Finance and Banking Committee and the Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers.[1]

In 2011 Mr. Marchenko participated in the Management and Leadership Program at Harvard Kennedy School, and he began his work at the Presidential Coordination Center of Reforms Implementation. He participated in Budget Code development. The Code was adopted in 2014. This Code is important particularly because of fiscal decentralization reform. Mr. Marchenko coordinated the preparation of a package of legislative bills aimed at changing the budgeting and improvement of autonomy of healthcare institutions.

Starting 2014, he worked as an expert for Bendukidze Free Market Center and developed a concept of the Program of Leadership in Public Finance and then implemented it with Kyiv school of economics in 2015–2016.[5]

From 2016 to 2018 he worked as Deputy Minister of Finance.[6][7]

From 2018 to 2019 Marchenko held the position of Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration.[8][9]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Marchenko was number 7 on the election list of the party Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman.[10] The party failed to win any seats.[11]

Member of the NSDC since 7 April 2020.[12]

On 30th Match 2020 was appointed as a Minister of Finance of Ukraine.[13]

In July 2020 as a Minister of Finance he was ranked No. 4 in Top-40 most influential young politicians in Ukraine according to Correspondent magazine.[14]

Personal life

Marchenko is married and has two children.[15]

He is interested in triathlon, participated in three starts of Ironman 70.3 or "Half Ironman" (1.9 km of swimming, 90 km of cycling and 21 km of running), two of them – in Turkey and Finland – he finished successfully. In Portugal, he was injured during a cycling and therefore could not finish the distance.[16]

See also

References
  1. "Марченко Сергей Михайлович". LB.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  2. "Marchenko appointed as deputy head of Presidential Administration". Ukrinform. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. Olga Rudenko (29 March 2020). "Serhiy Marchenko to replace Ihor Umansky as finance minister; health minister quits". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  4. "Науковці України". irbis-nbuv.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  5. Kitsoft. "Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine – Персона". www.kmu.gov.ua. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  6. "Про призначення Марченка С. М. заступником Міністра фінансів України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  7. "Про звільнення Марченка С. М. з посади заступника Міністра фінансів України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  8. "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 266/2018". Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  9. "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 293/2019". Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  10. (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short biography of Serhiy Marchenko, LIGA
  11. Servant of the People Party wins 124 mandates on party ticket in Rada elections, Interfax-Ukraine (5 August 2019)
    CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
  12. "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 133/2020". Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  13. "Три внеочередных заседания за день. Рада сменила двух министров, отправила Коломойского в "нокдаун" и приняла антикоронавирусные законы". nv.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  14. "40 до 40. Рейтинг влиятельных молодых политиков". korrespondent.net (in Russian). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  15. "PEP: Профіль: Марченко Сергій Михайлович, Міністерство фінансів України, Міністр". PEP.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  16. "На що витрачає гроші міністр фінансів – інтерв'ю з Сергієм Марченком". www.segodnya.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
Political offices
Preceded by
Ihor Umansky		 Minister of Finance
2020–present		 Incumbent
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