Prime Minister of Ukraine
Biography
Yulia Tymoshenko was born on 27 November 1960 in Dnipropetrovsk. Higher education, graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State University as an economist-cyberneticist, candidate of economic science. Worked as an economy engineer at the machine-building plant in Dnipropetrovsk. 1989 – 1991 chaired the Youth Center “Terminal”. 1991 – 1995 commercial and then general director of the corporation “Ukrainian petrol”. 1995 - 1997 headed the "United Energy Systems of Ukraine" corporation. People’s deputy of five convocations. In 1999 was elected as a leader of the political party “All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" ("Fatherland"). December 1999 – January 2001 – Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. July 2004 - co-chairman of the electoral commission "Power of the People", one of the leaders of the “Orange Revolution” as a protest against falsification of results of the presidential elections. February – September 2005 – Prime Minister of Ukraine On 18 December 2007 - elected as Prime Minister of Ukraine of the democratic coalition BYT and OU-PS.