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Оlexander Melnychenko, Acting Executive Director, UkraineInvest

By the order of the State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated December 7, 2023, the duties of the Executive Director of UkraineInvest were assigned to Alexander Melnychenko.

Alexander Ivanovych is an Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (1998), who served as a judge in the courts of Kyiv for 12 years. Subsequently, he held leadership positions as Deputy, First Deputy, Acting Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, and held responsible positions in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, and the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

Under his participation and leadership, over 200 laws and other regulatory acts in the field of competition (antimonopoly) law were developed.

In addition, Alexander Melnychenko represented Ukraine in various intergovernmental negotiations, at Global Forums on competition issues, and in the Intergovernmental Expert Group on Competition Policy and Law at UNCTAD.

He is also an Honorary Member of the Association of Lawyers of Ukraine and a member of the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association.

Alexander Melnychenko has been working at UkraineInvest since 2019, initially as the Chief Advisor to the Executive Director, and since September 2023, as the Head of the Legal and Regulatory Policy Department.

Andriy Kakusha, Chief Advisor to the Executive Director, UkraineInvest

Andrii leads the strategic direction of analyzing and attracting investments from the Global East and South, and has been working in the Executive Director’s team since 2020. He has a special area of responsibility for investment cooperation with the People’s Republic of China.

Mr. Kakusha graduated from Donetsk National Technical University with a degree in IT, management and economics. He worked as an investment analyst and business consultant in various fields: IT, financial and banking, energy, mining, agro-processing, and chemical industries. For a long time, he worked in West Africa and China.

Currently, he is an advisor to the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and an independent member of the Supervisory Board of public joint-stock company “Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo”.

Maryna Kytina, Chief Advisor to the Executive Director, UkraineInvest

Joined the Ukraine Invest team in July 2023.
Previous work experience of 4 years related to the development of electric mobility in Ukraine in the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, namely as an advisor to the Minister and an expert in the Reform Support Office at the MIU.

Graduated from Kryvyi Rih National University, studied at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

Has her own YouTube channel dedicated to reviews of electric cars, the host and author of the Green Mobility News program on the First Automotive TV channel, the founder of the Green Mobility Media advertising agency, the co-founder of the first electric vehicle award “E-mobility Award”.