Valentyn Nalyvaichenko

Valentyn Oleksandrovych Nalyvaichenko (Валенти́н Олекса́ндрович Налива́йченко; born 8 June 1966) is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician.

Born on 9 June 1966 in Zaporizhia, in 1983 Nalyvaichenko finished with golden medal (top honors) the general education school #30 in Zaporizhia and in September of the same year enrolled to the Kharkiv State University.

In June 1984 he finished the first year of Kharkiv State University and in 1984-86 served in the Soviet armed forces as a conscript.

Since September 1986 Nalyvaichenko studied in the Shevchenko State University of Kyiv (today is Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) from which he graduated with honors in June 1990 as philologist and a referent-interpreter of English.

From September 1990 to August 1991 Nalyvaichenko worked as a teacher in the department of Russian language of Kyiv Construction Engineering Institute (today is Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture).

In 1991-93 he was a student of the Andropov Institute of KGB (today is Academy of Foreign Intelligence), but refused to accept his diploma.

During that period from January 1992 to May 1994 Nalyvaichenko worked as a deputy director of local company in Zaporizhia.

In 1994-97 Nalyvaichenko worked for consular office of the Ukraine Embassy in Finland (concurrently in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland).

After returning from abroad, he worked in the central department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MZS) for the Consular administration.

In 2001-03 Nalyvaichenko worked as a general consul (adviser), for the Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, D.C. In 2003-04 he was a director of the Consular service department of MZS.

In February 2004 Nalyvaichenko was appointed a deputy minister of MZS.

In 2005-06 he served as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus.

From December 2006 until early March 2010 he had already headed the SBU.

In May 2006, he left that position to become the first deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine.

In December 2006, Nalyvaichenko became acting head of the SBU following Ihor Drizhchany's dismissal by parliament.

He kept this temporary position due to political deadlock but was finally confirmed as head of the SBU in March 2009.

He also served on the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.

In March 2010, following the defeat of Viktor Yushchenko in the presidential election, Nalyvaichenko was replaced by Valeriy Khoroshkovsky.

In September 2010, Nalyvaichenko was chosen to replace Vira Ulianchenko as the Chairman of the Political Council of Our Ukraine.

In May 2010, he announced the beginning of a public initiative called "Onovlennya Krainy" (Renewal of the Country).

In 2010-12 Nalyvaichenko also headed advising group "Smile Holding of Ukraine" (Kyiv).

In September 2010 he joined Our Ukraine party and became Chairman of the Political Council of the party.

Nalyvaichenko was placed at number 3 on the electoral list of UDAR during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

He was elected into parliament.

On May 24, 2012 he resigned as Chairman of the Political Council and left the party.

Supporting principles and political platform of UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms) of Vitaliy Klitchko, on August 1, 2012 he joined his political party.

Nalyvaichenko was elected Member of Parliament of Ukraine in October 2012 from the UDAR; he was third on UDAR's party list.

On 24 February 2014, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) appointed Nalyvaichenko the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), on 18 June 2015 he was relieved of the office.

On 22 February 2014, just after the "Maidan revolution", the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) appointed Nalyvaichenko (with the support of 333 of the 450 MPs ) its Commissioner in charge of supervision over the Security Service of Ukraine replacing Oleksandr Yakymenko who was dismissed by parliament the same day.

During his work as head of the Security Service of Ukraine, counterintelligence under the guidance of deputy head Victor Yahun received and published unequivocal evidence of the direct involvement of servicemen of the Russian Federation in hostilities in Ukraine.

As head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Nalivaychenko was noted by a number of resonant statements:

As of 2017 Nalyvaichenko is the leader of the political movement Spravedlivost (Justice).

In July 2017, Spravedlivost created a "joint action headquarter" with the political party Movement of New Forces of Mikheil Saakashvili.

He returned to parliament after the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this election Nalyvaichenko was placed third on the party list of Fatherland.

Since August 2019 he is a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee for Ukraine’s integration into the EU.

On 3 January 2019, Spravedlivost nominated Nalyvaichenko as their candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

In the election he gained 0.22% of the vote.

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Nalyvaichenko was placed third on the party list of Fatherland.

He was elected to parliament.

Since 2020 Nalyvaichenko studied in the Institute of Continuing Education at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv from which he graduated with honors in September 2022, received a law degree.