Vasyl Horbal

Vasyl Mykhailovych Horbal (; born 18 March 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and economist. Horbal formerly served as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from 2002 to 2010, representing the Party of Regions, until he was appointed Governor of Lviv Oblast in April 2010. In December 2010, he was dismissed from the post of governor by Viktor Yanukovych after the Lviv Oblast Council expressed no confidence in Horbal. Prior to entering politics, Orbal served as an economist banker, and in 1996 became director of Ukrgasbank.

Early life Horbal was born on 18 March 1971 in Lviv, which was then part of the Lviv Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. His father, Mykhailo, was the head of a polygraph shop called "LvivPhoto" and his mother, Rimma, was head of a laboratory at the Lviv Polytechnic National University.

In 2008 he unsuccessfully ran for the mayor of Kyiv.

In April 2010 Horbal was appointed Governor of Lviv Oblast.

In 2020, he was approved by the parliament to be a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.