Yuriy Bohutsky

Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, professor, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Director of the AUC Institute of Cultural Studies.

Yuriy Bohutsky was born on September 24, 1952, in the village of Mykolayivka, Velyka Lepetykha Raion, Kherson Oblast.

In 1999 from January to August Bohutsky was a Head of the Department for Humanitarian Affairs of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

In 1999–2001, he was Deputy Chairman of the President's Office, Head of the Main Department for Domestic Policy.

From December 2010 to February 2013, Bohutsky served as First Deputy Minister of Culture, and then he was appointed Advisor to the President — Head of the Main Department for Humanitarian Development of the Administration.