Yulia Svyrydenko
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2025-2026); president of KSE Business School since September 2026.
Yulia Svyrydenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine from July 2025 until her resignation on 14 July 2026, after serving as economy minister from 2021. Since 10 September 2026 she has led KSE Business School.
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Yulia Svyrydenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine from July 2025 until the Verkhovna Rada accepted her resignation on 14 July 2026. Serhii Koretskyi, the former head of Naftogaz, succeeded her on 16 July. Since 10 September 2026 she has been president of KSE Business School at the Kyiv School of Economics.
Before she led the government, Svyrydenko was first deputy prime minister and economy minister from 2021.
Her resignation opened a wider Cabinet reshuffle. In it Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on 15 July, which set off three days of protests in eight cities. The reshuffle exposed strain inside Ukraine's wartime leadership, and her move to an academic post took her out of government.
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