Andrii Borysovych Yermak ( uk, Андрій Борисович Єрмак; born 21 November 1971)

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(11 February 2020) is a

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film producer, lawyer and current Head of the

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

appointed him on 11 February 2020.Zelensky dismisses head of president's office Bohdan, appoints Yermak instead

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(11 February 2020) He is also a member of the

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Biography

Andrii Yermak was born on 21 November 1971 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, Ukraine (then part of the

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). Yermak's Russian born mother Maria met his Kyiv native father Borys on a school trip of a

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

school to Kyiv. Yermak's father is Jewish. They met through mutual acquaintances. The couple married in 1971 and she moved to Kyiv. Yermak has a brother Denys, who is 8 years younger. In 1990, he started and in 1995 Yermak graduated from Kyiv's

Taras Shevchenko National University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

's Institute of International Relations with a master's degree in international private law. The same year he received his license for law practice. In his second year of university, at the request of one of his teachers, he started working for the law company Proxen. In 1997, Yermak founded the International Law Firm and was engaged in the field of intellectual property and commercial law. Between 2006 and 2014 he, in his profession as lawyer, aided

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. In the

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, Yermak was a proxy of candidate

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in Kyiv's 216th constituency. Yermak founded the Garnet International Media Group in 2012 and is the producer of such films as ' and ''

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''. Yermak became acquainted with (future

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)

in 2011, when Zelenskyy was the general producer of the TV channel

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. The two became friends. Yermak worked in Zelenskyy's election campaign team of the

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. On 21 May 2019, newly elected President Zelenskyy appointed Yermak as Presidential Aide for Foreign Policy Issues. In this role he negotiated major prison exchanges with Russia during the

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. Yermak was the point of contact for

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and

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on behalf of Zelenskyy during the buildup of the

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. President Zelenskyy appointed Yermak as Head of the

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on 11 February 2020. Yermak additionally became a member of the NSDC the following day.

Personal life

Yermak has lived in

his whole life. He is single and has no children. Yermak has a brother named Denys who was blamed by the Ukrainian watchdog agency Bihus.info in destroying the private port operator TIS.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yermak, Andrii 1971 births Living people Politicians from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of International Relations alumni Independent politicians in Ukraine Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Jewish Ukrainian politicians Ukrainian film producers 21st-century Ukrainian lawyers 21st-century Ukrainian politicians National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine