Yevheniy Dykhne

Yevhenii Dykhne (; 12 October 1963, Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian airline executive. From 2019 to 2022 he was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Ukraine International Airlines. In 2023 he was sentenced to five years in prison for abuse of power.

Education

Yevhenii Dykhne having completed the second education of the “Organization of transportation and management on the daily transport” at the National Aviation University (Kyiv) and secured a diploma on the topic “Optimization of throughput capacity”. The first education of the “Carriage and Carriage Gentlement” was taken from the Institute of Engineers for Railway Transport (Dnipropetrovsk) in 1988.

Career

Dykhne is Member of the Aviation Committee at Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, member of the supervisory board of the National Aviation University.

Prior to his appointment as CEO of UIA on September 18, 2019, Yevhenii Dykhne was the Senior Manager of Boryspil International Airport State Enterprise. From 2017 worked as the First DeputyDirector General of the airport.

Recognition

In December 2019, he was recognized as one of the 100 most influential Ukrainians in the rating by Focus magazine. At the end of 2019, together with the top management team, UIA initiated the optimization of the airline's route network in order to reduce excess costs and bring the company to break-even in 2020 with further stable development.

Social activities

From October 2016 to October 2019, he was the chairman of the Aviation Committee at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

In March 2017, as the chairman of the Aviation Committee, he was elected a member of the Public Council at the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine to represent the interests of members of the committee and the aviation industry from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine.

In December 2017, he joined the activities of the Air Transport Committee under the Expert Council at the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.