Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko is a Ukrainian politician and from 2007 till December 2011 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.
Education
In 1978 he graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Agricultural Institute, specializing in agricultural scientist In 1991, Kirilenko was a graduate of the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow, the specialty analyst.
Doctor of Economics, Doctor of Philosophy in History. He defended his thesis entitled "Social development of village: Experience, Problems, Prospects (for example Prydniprovia Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics)" in 1991 at the Academy of Social Sciences (Moscow), and in 1997 ibid - doctoral thesis "The formation and development of the agricultural economy in the form of a market transformation.".
Career
Before becoming a politician Kyrylenko worked as head of a collective farm (kolkhoz) and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998 Kyrylenko was elected into Parliament on a Hromada ticket. Kyrylenko was Deputy Prime Minister in the First Yanukovych Government (2002-January 2005) cabinet of Viktor Yanukovych.
According to Yulia Tymoshenko, Kyrylenko is her “godfather in politics”.
After the 2007 election he was elected faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament. The faction re-elected as its faction leader Andriy Kozhemiakin.
Kyrylenko was placed at number 15 on the electoral list of Batkivshchina during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. He was re-elected into parliament.
He served on the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was again re-elected into parliament. This time after placing 14th on the electoral list of Batkivshchina. Published more than 100 scientific works, including some 10 books, including five in collaboration and 2 monographs.
Trained Doctors 2 and 3 candidates.
Politics
When Yulia Tymoshenko set up the breakaway All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" faction Kyrylenko joined her. In 2006 and 2007 he was elected into Parliament on an All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ticket.
Views
He defended his thesis entitled "Social development of village: Experience, Problems, Prospects (for example Prydniprovia Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics)" in 1991 at the Academy of Social Sciences (Moscow), and in 1997 ibid - doctoral thesis "The formation and development of the agricultural economy in the form of a market transformation.".
Membership
Kyrylenko left Parliament 2001 to become Minister of Agriculture (in the Kinakh Government) and one of the founding members of (the now defunct electoral bloc) Foreign United Ukraine in 2001. At the time of the next elections he was a member of the Agrarian Party (a part of Foreign United Ukraine). Elected in 2002, a corresponding member of Academy of Agrarian Sciences Research Office of Transfer of innovation.