Dmytro Kuleba
Dmytro Kuleba Дмитро Кулеба | |
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.jpg) Kuleba in 2020 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office 4 March 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Denys Shmyhal |
| Preceded by | Vadym Prystaiko |
| Deputy Prime Minister on matters of European relations | |
| In office 29 August 2019 – 4 March 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Oleksiy Honcharuk |
| Preceded by | Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze |
| Succeeded by | Vadym Prystaiko |
| Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe | |
| In office 2016–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Mykola Tochytsky |
| Succeeded by | Borys Tarasyuk[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 April 1981 Sumy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba (Ukrainian: Дмитро Іванович Кулеба; born 19 April 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, and communications specialist, currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs.[2] He is also concurrently a member of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine.[3]
Kuleba is one of the youngest senior-diplomats in Ukraine's history.[4] He previously worked as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration[5] as well as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe between 2016 and 2019.
Biography[edit]
Kuleba was born on April 19, 1981 in Ukraine's eastern city of Sumy. He graduated from the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Ukraine in 2003 and holds a degree of the Candidate of Sciences (PhD equivalent) in International Law.
Kuleba has served in Ukraine's diplomatic service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2003. In 2013, he abandoned public service citing his disagreement with Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych's course and chaired the UART Foundation for Cultural Diplomacy.
He took active part in Euromaidan protests in 2013–2014.
At the height of the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, Kuleba decided to return to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Ambassador-at-Large to launch strategic communications. He introduced the concepts of digital diplomacy, strategic communications, cultural diplomacy and public diplomacy into the Ministry’s work.
In 2016, Kuleba was appointed Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe. From August 2019 to March 2020, he was Deputy Prime Minister on matters of European relations. He has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 4 March 2020.
Personal life[edit]
He wrote a bestseller book The War for Reality. How to Win in the World of Fakes, Truths and Communities (2019) on modern communications, media literacy, and countering disinformation. In December 2017, Kuleba was named the best Ukrainian ambassador of the Year 2017 by the Institute of World Policy.[6][7]
Family[edit]
Kuleba's mother is Yevhenia Kuleba. His father Ivan Kuleba is a career diplomat, a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2003–2004), as well as Ukraine's ambassador to Egypt (1997–2000), Czech Republic (2004–2009), Kazakhstan (2008–2019), Armenia (since 2019).
Kuleba is married and has two children: Yehor (born 2006) and Liubov (born 2011).
Kuleba's wife Yevhenia was number 1 on the party list for the Kyiv City Council of the party Servant of the People in the 2020 Kyiv local election on October 25, 2020.[8][9] She is a Kyiv City Council Deputy, Secretary of the Kyiv City Council Standing Committee on Environmental Policy.
See also[edit]
- Honcharuk Government
- Shmyhal Government
- List of foreign ministers in 2020
- List of foreign ministers in 2021
- List of foreign ministers in 2022
- List of current foreign ministers
References[edit]
- ^ Zelensky appoints Tarasyuk Ukraine's envoy to Council of Europe, Ukrinform (24 December 2019)
- ^ "Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine - Персона". www.kmu.gov.ua.
- ^ THE COMPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE COUNCIL OF UKRAINE
- ^ "Bookforum". bookforum.ua.
- ^ "Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine - Parliament approves new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine". www.kmu.gov.ua.
- ^ "Інститут світової політики назвав топ-послів 2017 року". glavcom.ua.
- ^ "Сайт знаходиться на реконструкції". iwp.org.ua.
- ^ "Yevhenia Kuleba headed the list of "Servants of the People" in the Kyiv City Council elections" (in Ukrainian). Ukrayinska Pravda. 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25". Interfax-Ukraine. 15 July 2020.
External links[edit]
Media related to Dmytro Kuleba at Wikimedia Commons
Quotations related to Dmytro Kuleba at Wikiquote- Dmytro Kuleba on Facebook
- Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter
- Honcharuk’s government: who joined the Cabinet of Ministers?[dead link]
- Meet the Ministers: What We Know About Ukraine’s New Cabinet, Hromadske.TV
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- Diplomats from Kyiv
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of International Relations alumni
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine
- People from Sumy
- 21st-century diplomats
- Servant of the People (political party) politicians
- Foreign ministers of Ukraine
- European integration ministers of Ukraine
- Permanent Representatives of Ukraine to the Council of Europe
- National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine