Maksym Kutsyi

Maksym Vasylovych Kutsyi (; born 21 December 1982 ) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. He is a former Governor of Odesa Oblast. He assumed office on 11 October 2019 and was dismissed by President Volodymyr Zelensky on 5 November 2020.

Biography Kutsyi was born on 21 December 1982 in Kyiv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. From 1990 to 2000 he studied at the secondary school Lyceum of International Relations No. 51, which is located within the Pecherskyi District of Kyiv. Since 2015, he was the director of Service and Management LLC. He was chosen because of his managerial experience by Zelensky, and was ordered to primarily work on ensuring economic growth in Odesa and to raise the standard of living. He was, at the time, also called "Arsen Avakov's man", even though Kutsyi stated they never interacted and that all that connected them was Kutsyi worked in the internal affairs bodies after graduation.

Kutsyi is married and has a son.