Kostyantin Zhevago

Kostyantyn Valentynovych Zhevago ( uk, Костянтин Валентинович Жеваго, russian: Константин Валентинович Жеваго; born 7 January 1974) is a Ukrainian billionaire and politician. He was the first Eastern European to present one of his companies — Ferrexpo to the London Stock Exchange. Zhevago controls the "Finances and Credit" group — one of largest conglomerates of Ukraine; holds a post of FC Vorskla honorary president. He was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) from 1998 until 2019.

Early life and career

Kostyantyn Valentynovych Zhevago was born on 7 January 1974 in the village of Iultin, in Russia's far eastern Magadan Oblast, into the family of a mining engineer.

In 1991, Zhevago entered the Kyiv National Economic University, specialising in accounting and analysis of external economic activity. In 1996, he graduated with a master's degree in economics, and in 2003 he defended his candidate's dissertation on "International investments and effective economic development" at the Kyiv National Economic University.

Business

While studying, Zhevago began a career in the position of " Finance and Credit" chief financial officer ( uk, ЗАТ "Фінанси та Кредит", russian: ЗАО "Финансы и Кредит"), holding this post from 1993 to 1996.
From 1996 to 1998 he holds posts of " Finances and Credit" president, public corporation "Poltava ore-dressing and processing enterprise" ( uk, ВАТ «Полтавський ГЗК», russian: ОАО «Полтавский ГОК») council deputy and is member of public corporation "Ukrnafta" ( uk, ВАТ «Укрна́фта», russian: ОАО «Укрна́фта») supervisory board.

Kostyantin Zhevago, 35-year-old investor, was the first of the Ukrainian multimillionaires to present one of his companies — Ferrexpo to the London Stock Exchange. In autumn 2007 Ferrexpo was added to the FTSE 250 Index.

Forbes magazine named Kostyantin Zhevago the youngest billionaire in Europe, who made his fortune by himself. His bank " Finances and Credit" was one of the TOP-10 largest Ukrainian banks with hundreds of branches across Ukraine. He controls developed and successful enterprises in mining and metallurgical, shipbuilding, engineering, heavy car production, pharmacology and food industries in Ukraine and countries of Western Europe and Middle East. Owns the football team of Ukrainian Premier League FC Vorskla Poltava.

Political activity

In Ukraine, Zhevago conducts active political activity. In March 1998, he was first elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 149th electoral district, located in Poltava Oblast. June 1998 — Zhevago Kostyantin is a member of parliament committee of questions of economic policy, state economy management, property and investments. In April 2002, he was re-elected, this time in Ukraine's 150th electoral district (also in Poltava Oblast. From June 2002, he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada Legal Committee and a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine)'s permanent delegation in Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, PACE.

From May 2006 to April 2007, Zhevago was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In 2007, Zhevago was re-elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Leader of deputy group of inter-parliamentary connections with Japan. He missed all 51 parliament sessions in 2010.

Zhevago returned to the Verkhovna Rada once again after the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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