Oleksiy Chernyshov

Oleksiy Chernyshov
Олексій Чернишов
Official portrait, 2023
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine — Minister for National Unity of Ukraine
Assumed office
3 December 2024
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byIryna Vereshchuk
Head of the Board of Naftogaz
In office
4 November 2022  3 December 2024
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byYuriy Vitrenko
Minister for Communities and Territories Development
In office
4 March 2020  3 November 2022
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byDenys Shmyhal
Governor of Kyiv Oblast
In office
28 October 2019  11 March 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterOleksiy Honcharuk
Preceded byMykhailo Bno-Airiian
Succeeded byVasyl Volodin (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1977-09-04) 4 September 1977
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Political partyIndependent
EducationKharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”
Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
OccupationEntrepreneur
politician

Oleksiy Chernyshov (Ukrainian: Олексій Михайлович Чернишов; born 4 September 1977) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine — Minister for National Unity of Ukraine since December 3, 2024.

Chernyshov was CEO of the Naftogaz Group in 2022–2024, Minister for Communities and Territories Development in 2020–2022, and Kyiv Region Governor in 2019–2020.

He coordinated the decentralization reform, recognized by the European Union as one of the most successful reforms in Ukraine, as well as the reform of state regulation in construction. He also revived the corporate governance reform within the Naftogaz Group. He has over 20 years of experience in the private sector in Ukraine and abroad, specializing in finance, investments, investment banking, real estate, and IT.