EBRD manager appointed as new deputy energy minister

Serhiy Maslichenko, former Associate Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Energy Efficiency and Climate Change department, has been appointed as the Deputy Energy and Environmental Protection Minister of Ukraine.

"At a meeting on November 3, the Government approved a number of personnel decisions. In particular, Serhiy Maslichenko has been appointed as the Deputy Energy and Environmental Protection Minister of Ukraine," the press service of the Ministry reports.

Maslichenko is known as one of the authors of the EBRD thermal modernization program called IQ Energy, as well as the USELF (Ukraine Sustainable Energy Lending Facility) program. He is also a co-founder of the Finance and Technology Transfer Centre for Climate Change (FINTECC).

In 1999-2002, Serhiy Maslichenko worked as an energy consultant in the Verkhovna Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In 2003, he founded and headed the NGO “Ukrainian Center for Economic and Legal Analysis.” Maslichenko advised the Government of the UK on Russia and Kazakhstan's energy strategy. Since 2007, he managed EBRD's business development in the areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy in Ukraine, Poland, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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