Who became the chairman of the Entrepreneurship Support Council in Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky created the support of entrepreneurship and eliminated five advisory bodies that existed before. The head of the newly created organ he Appointed the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak.

The council includes more than 70 representatives of Ukrainian business. The corresponding decree by number 421/2025 of June 27 was published on the website of the Head of State.

“In order to ensure the guarantees of constitutional right to entrepreneurial activity and to intensify work on the quality development and realization of the investment potential of Ukraine,… I would like to create a council on the support of entrepreneurship as a advisory and advisory body under the President of Ukraine,” the Zelensky decree reads.

Newly created advisory and advisory body:

will analyze the effectiveness of state policy in the field of development and support of entrepreneurship, summarize the identified problems and prepare proposals for possible ways to solve them;
will develop measures to improve the conditions of entrepreneurial activity, stimulate investment and innovative activity, protection of property rights and competition in accordance with the best practices of regulating the business environment;
will process legislative initiatives on business and investment activity, form proposals for improving the legislation of Ukraine in the relevant areas, in particular, taking into account the tasks of adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union;
will promote interaction between state bodies, local self -government bodies and business entities, public associations that represent their interests in order to effectively solve problematic issues in conducting business, support for the implementation of entrepreneurial initiatives.
The chairman of the Council Zelensky appointed Andriy Yermak, his deputy – the first Vieuvinister, the head of the Ministry of Economy Yulia Sviridenko.

It is known that the council includes more than 70 entrepreneurs, including businessman and banker, co -founder of Fintech Band and Monobank’s projects and British Nedovan KOTO Oleg Gorokhovsky, DTEK CEOs Maxim Timchenko, politician and entrepreneur, chairman The founder of one of the largest construction companies by KAN Igor Nikonov, co -founder of Nova Poshta, President of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Vyacheslav Klimov and others. The staff of the council can be found on the website of the President of Ukraine.

By the same decree, Zelensky eliminated five previously advisory bodies created:

National Reform Council (created in 2014 by the fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko for coordination of common policy on reform);
The Executive Committee of Reform (in the days of Zelensky was headed by Mikhail Saakashvili);
National Investment Council (created by Poroshenko in 2014 to stimulate investment in Ukraine);
Council for the Promotion of Small Business Development (created by Zelensky in 2020 to establish a connection between the authorities and the small business);
Council for the support of entrepreneurship in the conditions of martial law (created after the scandal with the detention of Igor Mazepa in January 2024 in order to establish relationships between the authorities and business).

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