Brussels Forum Session: Euro-Atlantic Security and Ukraine: Scenarios for the Future
Arseniy Yatsenyuk is chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum, founder of the Open Ukraine Foundation, and leader of the Narodnyi Front (People’s Front) party. He served as Ukrainian prime minister twice and as foreign minister.
During the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity, Yatsenyuk was a leader of the United Opposition and head of the largest opposition faction in parliament. Prior to that, he was a member of parliament and leader of the Front Zmin (Front for Changes) party. From 2007 to 2008, he was speaker of parliament.
Yatsenyuk also held the positions of the first deputy chief of the secretariat of the president of Ukraine, minister for economy, first deputy governor of the Odesa Region, acting chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, and minister for economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. He was also adviser to the chairman and deputy chairman of the board of the AVAL Joint-Stock Postal Pensionary Bank.
Yatsenyuk is a graduate of the Chernivtsi Trade-Economic Institute of Kyiv Trade-Economic University and a graduate of Chernivtsi State University. He holds a PhD from the Ukrainian Bank Academy.