Oleksiy Orzhel

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Oleksiy Orzhel

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]

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Oleksiy Orzhel
Олексій Оржель
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Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine
In office
29 August 2019  4 March 2020
Prime MinisterOleksiy Honcharuk
Preceded byIhor Nasalyk (Energy)
Ostap Semerak (Environment)
Succeeded byVitaliy 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 partyServant of the People
EducationKyiv Polytechnic Institute
Occupationenergy expert
politician
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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]

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