Petro Poroshenko

Born

September 26, 1965 (age 61)

Known as

businessperson, politician, diplomat, economist, entrepreneur

Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian politician, oligarch, and former bureaucrat who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, he headed the Council of Ukraine's National Bank. He was elected president in 2014 in a landslide, avoiding the second round of voting by winning 55.46% in the first round.

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