Andriy Pyshnyi

Andriy Hryhorovych Pyshnyi (Андрій Григорович Пишний; born 26 October 1974) is a Ukrainian banker and politician.

He is the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine and a member of the NSDC of Ukraine.

Pyshnyi is a former CEO of the Ukrainian state-owned bank Oschadbank.

Pyshnyi was born on 26 October 1974 in the village of Dobrovody, Zbarazh Raion, Ternopil Oblast.

In 1991–1996, he studied at the Law Faculty of Chernivtsi University, where he met Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

After graduation, in 1996–2000, he remained there as a trainee teacher and assistant at the Department of Constitutional, Administrative and Financial Law.

Since 1998, Pyshnyi has headed the Pravkon law firm in Chernivtsi and was its co-owner.

In 1998–2005, Andrii Pyshnyi was a co-owner (2%) of Inter-Chernivtsi TV and Radio Company LLC together with local politician and journalist Vasyl Zabrodskyi (he owned 98%).

Later, the company was acquired by the structures of pro-Russian oligarchs Dmytro Firtash and Valeriy Khoroshkovsky.

In 2000, he headed the legal department of Oschadbank and moved to Kyiv.

During 2003-2007, he was the first deputy chairman of the board of Oschadbank and the chairman of Oschadbank from 2004 to May 2005.

In 2005, he graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine.

In 2006, Pyshnyi agreed the bank's development strategy which included changes in the bank's management and introduction of independent directors to the Supervisory Board.

In May 2007, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

From March to May 2007, he was the first deputy chairman of the Board of OJSC Ukreximbank.

He was dismissed from the post by a decree of President Viktor Yushchenko in June 2009.

In 2009 (at the age of 34), Pyshnyi partially lost his hearing.

He is the initiator of a number of social projects including the NGO Vidchuvay, established together with Andriy Yermak, which helps the adaptation of people who have lost their hearing or were born with hearing impairments.

In particular, Oschadbank headed by Pyschnyi became the first in Eastern Europe to open inclusive bank branches for people with impairments.

In 2010, he focused on Arseniy Yatsenyuk's political party's project Front for Change, where he headed the party control committee.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he became the deputy chief of staff of the Batkivshchyna party, and in December he became the leader of the Yatsenyuk group in the Batkivshchyna faction and the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on regulations.

On 15 June 2013, after the merger of the Front for Change and the Batkivshchyna party, he was elected deputy leader of Batkivshchyna.

Since 26 March 2014, he has been the chairman of the board of JSC Oschadbank.

Pyshnyi is a co-author of the charity project called "Art that Saves" established in collaboration with Art Arsenal and volunteer organizations to help Ukrainian soldiers and residents of the front-line zone of Donbass wounded since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014.

After the beginning of the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine in Donbas, Oschadbank officially continued to operate in the territories controlled by the DPR and LPR at least until December 1, 2014 when it ceased all its activities within the territories.

Pyshnyi's performance as the chairman of the board of Oschadbank has been subject to various assessments.

He was noted for his active work on the repayment of the bank's bad loans and the transformation of the bank itself.

However, the state bank's equity decreased from UAH 20.5 billion (January 1, 2014) to UAH 19.6 billion (January 1, 2019).

According to Obozrevatel, in 2018, Oschadbank showed the lowest return on equity - 0.6% with the highest level of non-performing loans - 63%, while the return on equity of Ukrgasbank in 2018 was 13.5%, and PrivatBank - 46.5%.

Pyshnyi was officially introduced as the newly elected head of the National Bank on 10 October 2022, by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

Pishnyi declared macro-financial stability, the effectiveness of macroeconomic policy and international negotiations, a new dialogue between the National Bank and the government, and opening access to sources of state funding as his priorities.

In December 2022, Pyshnyi made an official visit to Washington where he met with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva.

Pyshnyi is part of the Ukrainian representatives participating in IMF missions to Ukraine.

The intermediate results were Ukraine's successful completion of the monitoring program, and the approval of a four-year program by the IMF Board of Directors of expanded financing for Ukraine amounted to US$15.6 billion.

The funds provided by the program are part of a larger package of financial assistance to Ukraine totalling US$115 billion.

According to Ukrainian analysts, Pyshnyi played an active role in improving the relations between the NBU and the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine and renewing the interaction of fiscal and monetary policies to intensify the domestic debt market activities.

Since 2 August 2019, Pyshnyi's powers at Oschadbank were extended for the next 5 years.

On 7 October 2022, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the election of Andriy Pyshnyi as the head of the National Bank of Ukraine.

290 MPs voted for the decision.

On October 10, 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy officially introduced the newly elected NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyy to the NBU team.