Oleksandr Shlapak

Oleksandr Vіtaliyovych Shlapak (; born 1 January 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, bureaucrat, and former Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Biography He was born to Vitaliy Fedorovich (1935–1995) and Katerina Grigorіvna (born 1935), now retired in Irkutsk. After completing higher education, he enrolled 1977 in engineering at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute and graduated as system engineer in 1982 with a degree in "automatic control systems". From 1982–1984 he worked as a software engineer at Lviv Polytechnic Institute. In 2009, he graduated from Ukrainian State University of Finance and International Trade with a master's degree in "International Economics" and a Candidate of Sciences degree in economic sciences.

From 1984 to 1990 he was secretary of the Komsomol Committee of Lviv Polytechnic Institute, head of the department of the Lviv regional committee of Komsomol organization LKSMU, and head of the central committee of the students and youth LKSMU. From 1990–1993 he was chairman of the regional council of the Democratic Youth Union of Lviv.

Shlapak was Chairman of PrivatBank from 18 December 2016 until 21 July 2017.

Voluntary activities Since 2005 he has headed the NGO "Association "Ukraine – Vietnam". He continues to hold positions as Co-president of Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and as Vice President of the Association of taxpayers.

Awards Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise V degree (1 January 2010) — for outstanding contribution to nation building and socio-economic development of the Ukrainian state Order of Merit III degree (19 March 2004) — for significant personal contributions to the state of monetary policy, the development of banking and professionalism Honored Economist of Ukraine (7 February 2008) — for his significant personal contribution to the integration of Ukraine into the World Trade Organization the State prize — Friendship Order of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 2011.

Private life He is married to Oksana Markovna (born 1960) and has 2 daughters, named Galina (born 1980) and Katerina (born 1983).