Valery Pyatnitsky

Valery Pyatnitsky was born April 19, 1962, in Chervona Motovylivka (Fastiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR).

During 1987–1990 – PhD student of Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv.

in 1999–2002 – doctorant in Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics.

Pyatnitsky was appointed by the Yatsenyuk Government to lead the (newly created) Institution of Trade Representative in Ukraine on 20 August 2014.

[2] Then Minister of Economical Development and Trade Pavlo Sheremeta disagreed with this appointment and resigned over it (he felt that he as Minister himself should have nominated candidates for his deputies) on 21 August 2014.