Ihor Umanskyi

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovych and the family name is Umansky.

Ihor Umansky
Ігор Уманський
Minister of Finance
In office
4 March 2020 – 30 March 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byOksana Markarova
Succeeded bySerhiy Marchenko
In office
8 April 2009 – 11 March 2010
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko
Preceded byViktor Pynzenyk
Succeeded byFedir Yaroshenko
Personal details
Born (1975-01-09) 9 January 1975
Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
PartyIndependent
EducationKyiv National Economic University

Ihor Ivanovych Umansky (Ukrainian: Ігор Іванович Уманський; born 9 January 1975[1]) is a Ukrainian economist and civil servant.[2] On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine.[3] He was dismissed on 30 March 2020.[4] Umansky claims he never received a formal reason for his dismissal and that he first heard of it through news reports.[5]

Biography

Umanskyi was born on 9 January 1975 in the city of Pripyat, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[6] In 1997, Umansky graduated from Kyiv National Economic University.[6] He also later became a Candidate of Economic Sciences in 2012.[7]

After graduating in 1997, he began working within the Department of Infrastructure of Investment Activities and International Investment Cooperation for the National Agency of Ukraine for Development and European Integration.[6] He then transferred to being an expert for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister regarding economic issues for two years.[6] He was then Deputy Head of the Group of Advisers to the Minister of Economy and Head of the Department of Structural Policy for the Ministry of Economy, and Deputy State Secretary for the Ministry of Economy.[6]

In 2004, he left the ministry in order to become Director of the Department for Work with Troubled Banks with the National Bank, and then in 2005 was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of UkrTransNafta.[6] Until 2008 he was also Deputy Head of the State Agency for Investments and Innovations.[6] In 2008, he rejoined the Ministry of Finance, serving as First Deputy Minister of Finance until 2010.[1] After his dismissal, he became a postgraduate student and senior lecturer at the Odesa National Academy of Communications.[6]

From 2014 to 2015, he again worked as First Deputy Minister of Finance.[8][9]

From 2016 to 2019, Umansky was an adviser to the President of Ukraine.[10][11]

After his term as Minister of Finance, he alleged there was massive VAT fraud in Ukraine, to which a Temporary Investigative Commission of the Verkhovna Rada was launched.[12][13] The commission concluded that Ukraine was losing about 2.5 billion UAH every month due to fradulent VAT-credit scenes.[12] He was briefly appointed as an Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, during this time, but he resigned early in November 2020 claiming that the schemes had fully resumed.[12][14] He also later in 2021 alleged that a "road of construction cartel" was stealing billion from Ukraine's COVID-19 fund through manipulated road-building contracts.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Уманский Игорь Иванович". LB.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  2. ^ Minakov, Olexiy (3 May 2017). "Igor Umansky, potential candidate for Central Bank governor, assesses Gontareva's tenure". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Ukrainian lawmakers vote to appoint Ihor Umansky as new finance minister". Reuters. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  4. ^ Ukraine's Rada sacks health, finance ministers amid virus crisis Ilya Yemets / 30 March 2020 / Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/m/politics/10937444-ukraine-s-rada-sacks-health-finance-ministers-amid-virus-crisis.html
  5. ^ "Ігор Уманський: "Від "скруток" із ПДВ бюджет недоотримує в середньому 5 мільярдів на місяць"". LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 2 April 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Уманський Ігор". LIGA.net (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Науковці України". irbis-nbuv.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Про призначення Уманського І. І. першим заступником Міністра фінансів України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Про звільнення Уманського І. І. з посади першого заступника Міністра фінансів України". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 444/2016". Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 50/2019". Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  12. ^ a b c "Щомісяця бюджет втрачає 2,5 млрд гривень через "скрутки" ПДВ, – звіт ТСК Верховної Ради". LB.ua. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  13. ^ "Рада створила комісію для розслідування корупції за заявами Уманського". LIGA (in Russian). 24 April 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  14. ^ "Єрмак розповів, чим займатиметься Уманський в ролі його радника". Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (in Ukrainian). 22 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  15. ^ "Ігор Уманський — DSnews.ua". DS News (in Ukrainian). 28 October 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
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