Oleksandr Vilkul country of citizenship Ukraine
Early life and career
Oleksandr Yuriyovych Vilkul was born on 24 May 1974 in Kryvyi Rih, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union. His family had been miners for four generations. Oleksandr's great-grandfather, Oleksandr Vasyliovych Borovskyi (1896 – 1972) was a participant in the Russian Civil War, an honorary citizen of Kryvyi Rih, and member of the leadership of the Dzerzhinsky Mining Department. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
In 1996, Vilkul graduated from Kryvyi Rih Technical University, specialising in open-pit mining. He started his career as an assistant excavator driver at OJSC Southern Iron Ore Enrichment Works (PHZK), eventually becoming the mine master.
From 1997 to 2001, Vilkul was General Deputy Director of PHZK's Commerce and Finance Department. Afterwards, he served as Vice-President of Economics and Foreign Economic Relations of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Ukraine for a year before returning to PHZK, where he served as deputy CEO. The next year, he became the general director of Central Iron Ore Enrichment Works (TsHZK), a position he served in until 2006. From 2006 to 2010, he was honorary president of TsHZK and Northern Iron Ore Enrichment Works, a company he became general director of in 2004.
Over a period of five years, he was among the top ten managers, according to ratings of InvestGazeta's "TOP100: Greatest Managers of Ukraine" and Galitskiye Kontrakty's "Guards of Managers".
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