Speaker

Hryhoriy Nemyria is the First Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine and Deputy Chairman of the Batkivshchyna Party. In the previous Rada convocations, Dr. Nemyria chaired the Committees on European Integration and on Human Rights.
He served as Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Tymoshenko (2007- 2010). He was Governor from Ukraine in the World Bank and Co-Chairman of the Ukraine-China and Ukraine-Germany Intergovernmental Commissions on Trade and Economic Cooperation.

From 2006-2007, Dr. Nemyria was the Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Delegation to the PACE and the Ukrainian delegation to the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. In Ms. Tymoshenko’s first government (2005), he served as her Foreign Policy Advisor.
Dr. Nemyria comes from Donetsk. One of his grandmothers, Thekla, was of Greek origin and came from the Pontic Greeks who have their settlements on the Sea of Azov in Donetsk Region of Ukraine since the 18th century.

He has an MA in History from Donetsk University and a Ph.D. from Kyiv Shevchenko University. He became Vice-Rector of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and chaired the European Integration Department of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is also a graduate of the National Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.