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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borysovych and the family name is Yermak.
Andrii Yermak
Андрій Єрмак
Chief of Staff
of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 February 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Preceded byAndriy Bohdan[1]
Member of the
National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 February 2020
Personal details
Born (1971-11-21) 21 November 1971 (age 53)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyIndependent
EducationTaras Shevchenko National University[2]
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer, film producer
CommitteesHead of the committee of State Awards (since 2020)
Websitewww.president.gov.ua

Andrii Borysovych Yermak (Template:Lang-uk; born 21 November 1971)[2][dead link‍] is a Ukrainian film producer, lawyer and current Head of the Presidential Administration. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed him on 11 February 2020.[1] He is also a member of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.

Biography

Andrii Yermak was born on 21 November 1971 in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union).[2] Yermak's Russian born mother Maria met his Kyiv native father Borys on a school trip of a Leningrad school to Kyiv.[3] Yermak's father is Jewish.[4] They met through mutual acquaintances.[3] The couple married in 1971 and she moved to Kyiv.[3] Yermak has a brother Denys, who is 8 years younger.[3]

In 1990, he started and in 1995 Yermak graduated from Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko National University's Institute of International Relations with a master's degree in international private law.[2][3] The same year he received his license for law practice.[2] In his second year of university, at the request of one of his teachers, he started working for the law company Proxen.[3]

In 1997, Yermak founded the International Law Firm and was engaged in the field of intellectual property and commercial law.[1] Between 2006 and 2014 he, in his profession as lawyer, aided Party of Regions MP Elbrus Tedeyev.[5][1]

In the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, Yermak was a proxy of candidate Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kyiv's 216th constituency.[3]

Yermak founded the Garnet International Media Group in 2012[6] and is the producer of such films as Rule of Battle [Wikidata] and The Line.[7]

Yermak became acquainted with (future President) Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2011, when Zelenskyy was the general producer of the TV channel Inter.[5] The two became friends.[5]

Yermak worked in Zelenskyy's election campaign team of the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[3]

On 21 May 2019, newly elected President Zelenskyy appointed Yermak as Presidential Aide for Foreign Policy Issues.[1] In this role he negotiated major prison exchanges with Russia during the War in Donbas.[8] Yermak was the point of contact for Kurt Volker and Rudy Giuliani on behalf of Zelenskyy during the buildup of the Trump–Ukraine scandal.[9]

President Zelenskyy appointed Yermak as Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine on 11 February 2020.[1] Yermak additionally became a member of the NSDC the following day.[10]

Personal life

Yermak has lived in Kyiv his whole life. He is single and has no children.[3] Yermak has a brother named Denys who was blamed by the Ukrainian watchdog agency Bihus.info in destroying the private port operator TIS.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Zelensky dismisses head of president's office Bohdan, appoints Yermak instead, Interfax-Ukraine (11 February 2020)
  2. ^ a b c d e Yermak replaces Bohdan as head of President's Office, 112 Ukraine (11 February 2020)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Who is Mr. Yermak? Lawyer. Businessman. Producer. Vice-president?". Ukrayinska Pravda. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  4. ^ Berman, Lazar. "Top Zelensky adviser opens up about his Jewish roots, urges greater Israeli support". Times of Israel. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "Who is Mr Yermak? 10 quotes from the new head of the President's Office". Glavcom. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  6. ^ Andriy Yermak at IMDb
  7. ^ Another assistant to the President was film producer Ermak, Ukrinform (21 May 2019)
  8. ^ "Bohdan turbo mode. As he broke into the team of Zelensky and left the OPU head". Ukrainska Pravda. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Andriy Yermak replaces Andriy Bohdan as head of presidential office". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 52/2020" (in Ukrainian). Office of the President of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Брат керівника Офісу президента взявся зруйнувати найбільший приватний порт – Bihus.info". Економічна правда (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-10.
Political offices
Preceded by Head of the Presidential Office
2020– 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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