Yulia Tymoshenko

Born

November 27, 1960 (age 65)

Known as

economist, politician, entrepreneur

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997 and 2007, and presently as of 2014, and was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex from 1999 to 2001. She holds a PhD degree in Economic Sciences, which is known in Ukraine and other countries as a "Candidate of Sciences" degree.

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