Oleksandr Kamyshin
Oleksandr Mykolayovych Kamyshin (, ; born on 2 July 1984) is a Ukrainian politician who has been the Minister of Strategic Industries since 21 March 2023. He was the CEO of state-owned Ukrainian Railways from August 2021 to late February 2023. Biography 
Oleksandr Kamyshin was born on 2 July 1984 in Kyiv in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He studied finance at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from 2001 to 2007. In 2006 he started his professional career as an auditor at KPMG; he left the company in 2008. From 2008 to 2012 he was the General Director of Kyiv Motorcycle Plant, while also working for the investment management company Dragon Capital. In 2012 Kamyshin became an investment manager at SCM Holdings. Kamyshin left SCM in 2019. In January 2020 Kamyshin became a managing partner of Fortior Capital. On 11 August 2021 Kamyshin was appointed acting CEO of state-owned Ukrainian Railways. At the time he was advisor to Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov. He was appointed permanent CEO in March 2022. Kamyshin gained world-wide recognition for keeping Ukrainian trains working during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kamyshin resigned as CEO late February 2023 to become the head of the European integration office of Ukrainian Railways. On 3 March 2023 he was appointed as a freelance Advisor to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On 20 March 2023, the Ukrainian parliament received Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal's submissions on the appointment of Kamyshin as Minister of Strategic Industries. On 21 March 2023 he was appointed to this post. Kamyshin is married and has two sons. References

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Living people
Railway executives
People of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
Politicians from Kyiv
Ukrainian accountants
Ukrainian Railways
KPMG people
Auditors
SCM Holdings people
1984 births
Government ministers of Ukraine