Mustafa Nayyem
Mustafa Nayyem | |
|---|---|
| Мустафа Найєм مصطفى نعیم | |
Nayyem in 2011 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 27 November 2014 – 24 July 2019 | |
| Constituency | Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No. 20 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 28, 1981 Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan |
| Political party | Democratic Alliance |
| Other political affiliations | Petro Poroshenko Bloc (until August 2016) |
| Alma mater | Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
| Occupation | Publicist, journalist for Kommersant, Ukrayinska Pravda, and Hromadske.TV |
Mustafa Masi Nayyem (Ukrainian: Мустафа Найєм, Pashto: مصطفی نعیم; born June 28, 1981) is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics, and public figure who was influential in sparking the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Since January 2023 Nayyem had been the head of the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development. He resigned (and was officially dismissed) in June 2024. Prior to this he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure appointed in August 2021.
Formerly, before his bureaucratic career Nayyem was a reporter for the newspaper Kommersant Ukraine, the TVi channel, and the online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda. He also participates in Ukrainian journalists' anti-censorship movement, "Stop the censorship!" (Ukrainian: Стоп цензурі!, Stop tsenzuri!), and Hromadske.TV. In the parliamentary elections he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament on the list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Nayyem did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.