Viktor Pynzenyk

Viktor Pynzenyk
Віктор Пинзеник
Pynzenyk in 2013
Minister of Finance of Ukraine
In office 18 December 2007 – 17 February 2009
Preceded by	Mykola Azarov
Succeeded by	Ihor Umansky (Acting)
In office 4 February 2005 – 28 September 2005 28 September 2005 – August 2006
Preceded by	Mykola Azarov
Succeeded by	Mykola Azarov
First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office 31 October 1994 – 5 September 1995
Preceded by	Yevhen Marchuk
Succeeded by	Pavlo Lazarenko
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office 3 August 1995 – 21 September 1996 21 September 1996 – 7 April 1997
Personal details
Born	(1954-04-15) 15 April 1954 (age 70) Smolohovytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
Political party	Independent (since 2010, before 2002)[2]
Other political affiliations	Reforms and Order Party (1997–2010)[3]
Spouse	Maria Romanivna (1969)[3]
Children	Olga (1981), Yulia (1989), and Volodymyr (1993)[3]
Occupation	Politician, economist and professor

Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник; born 15 April 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance. He is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party.^[2][3]

Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping to transform the country into a market economy and introducing Ukraine's new currency, the hryvnia in September 1996, with the help of Viktor Yushchenko, at the time Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.^[4]