Location Ukraine, Europe Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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In July 2014, Dmytro Shymkiv was appointed by Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko as deputy head of the Presidential Administration, responsible for reforms coordination, innovations, and change management in the Administration. Currently Dmytro is co-chair of the Executive Reforms Committee and secretary of the National Reforms Council, advisory
body to the president. The Committee's main function is to prepare proposals for reforms strategic planning, coordination of reforms implementation, and monitoring. In addition, Dmytro is responsible for change management, reorganization, innovations, and implementation of e-governance. Among his achievements are drafting the president's strategy for sustainable development ("Ukraine 2020"), establishing the National Reform Council and Project Management Office for reforms, creating the National Reform Monitoring framework, enabling the possibility of launching third-generation mobile technology (3G) through competition, driving the "Digital Ukraine" and "Go Global" initiatives, evangelizing the electronic public procurement system "ProZorro," creating electronic petitions service to the president, introducing various innovations in the Presidential Administration, and more.
Dmytro is a technology entrepreneur, innovator, and respected professional with 20 years of leadership experience in the IT industry across Ukraine, Europe, and the US. Since May 2009, as general manager of Microsoft Ukraine, he has successfully led the company from the recession toward a new growth across all product groups and customer segments, as well as developed new business opportunities.
