Andrii Prokopenko
Andrii Leonidovych Prokopenko (; born 10 January 1982) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. Prokopenko is a former Governor of Chernihiv Oblast. Biography. In 2003, he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Prokopenko is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences. Former director of the NGO Institute of Social Development. He was a managing partner of Prokopenko & Partners. From 2015 to 2017, Prokopenko was a member of the Chernihiv Oblast Council for the party Our Land. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Prokopenko & Partners did sociological research for the party Servant of the People, and Prokopenko himself led that  party's headquarters in Odesa during the parliamentary elections. Prokopenko was Governor of Chernihiv Oblast from 1 November 2019 until 12 September 2020. Prokopenko resigned as Governor on 12 September 2020 because he claimed he was left out of the selection of candidates for the 2020 election of the Chernihiv Oblast Council. 4 days later the Cabinet of Ministers approved the resignation of the head of the regional state administration.