Syarhey Rumas

Sergei Nikolayevich Rumas[a] (born 1 December 1969) is a Belarusian politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of Belarus from August 2018 to June 2020.

[3] In 2001, Rumas was awarded a Candidate of Sciences degree in economics, his thesis was entitled "Ways of optimization of resource structure of commercial bank".

During the financial crisis of 2011, Rumas supervised the creation of a program of structural reforms, which was criticized by the president Alexander Lukashenko and his adviser Sergey Tkachyov.

Rumas advocated privatization, foreign investments, and abolition of preferential loans for state-owned companies[6][7][5] In 2012, Alexander Lukashenko appointed him a head of Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus.

[8] The decree had a clause on the subsequent approval of Rumas's appointment in the House of Representatives, but the Constitution prescribes an opposite procedure.

Belarusian National Republic
Belarusian National Republic
Byelorussian SSR
Byelorussian SSR
Belarus
Belarus