The parliament has approved the composition of the new Cabinet of Ministers, including Volodymyr Omelian as the Minister of Infrastructure.
Until his appointment, Omelian was the deputy minister of infrastructure and the Ministry of Infrastructure’s chief of staff. He was also the acting Minister of Infrastructure for a few weeks following the departure of Andrii Pyvovarskyi.
Before joining the Ministry of Infrastructure, Omelian was the chief of service at the Cabinet of Ministers, before then, he worked in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has been working in various positions in Ukrainian central executive government agencies since 2000.
Omelian was born in Lviv in 1979. He graduated from the Ivan Franko Lviv University in 2000 and from the Lviv Polytechnic National University in 2001. He specialized in finance, international relations, economics, and entrepreneurship.
Omelian declared an income of UAH 801,000 for 2015, including UAH 121,000 in wages and other payments and UAH 680,000 in revenue from sale of movable and immovable property.
Omelian is the third minister of infrastructure since Viktor Yanukovych left Ukraine. Maksym Burbak, a close ally of then-prime minister Arsenii Yatseniuk, was appointed as the Minister of Infrastructure on 27 February 2014. Andrii Pyvovarskyi, who headed the Continuum group of companies and was considered a close ally of one of the group’s owners Ihor Yeremeev, was appointed to the post on 2 December 2015.
