Ihor Zhdanov

Ihor Oleksandrovych Zhdanov (; 29 December 1967) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in both the Yatsenyuk Government and in the Groysman Government. Zhdanov is also the president of the Open Politics analytical center.

Early life Zhdanov was born on 29 December 1967 in the city of Vinnytsia, which was thehn part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. In 1992, he graduated from the University of Kyiv within the Faculty of History, and remained there afterwords to complete his postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Law, from which he graduated from in 1994. He also noted that he left like Yushchenko's hard line policy towards Russia was too radical, and ignored the political landscape of Ukraine at the time, and concluded the party had abandoned democratic principles. However, he retained his position in the Groysman Government, which was installed on 14 April 2016. He continued to serve as a minister until the Honcharuk government was established on 29 August 2019.

On August 29, 2019, Volodymyr Groysman's government resigned in accordance with Article 115 of the Constitution of Ukraine before the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and Ihor Zhdanov was dismissed from the post of Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine.

Since December 2019, he has been a mentor of the USAID RADA Program: Responsible Accountable Democratic Parliamentary Representation.

Since January 1, 2020, he has been a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA Foundation Board Member), elected by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.