Halyna Fedorivna Hereha (; born 9 August 1959) is a Ukrainian businesswoman and politician who served as acting mayor of Kyiv from 2012 to 2014. Hereha also was a Deputy Mayor and Secretary of the Kyiv City Council from 20 April 2011 to 5 June 2014. She is the co-owner of the store chain Epicentr K along with her husband, Oleksandr Hereha.

Biography

She was born on 9 August 1959 in the village of Hlynets, Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast.

Halyna Hereha

She defended her PhD thesis on "Economic efficiency of shopping malls" in 2015.

Halyna Hereha

In 2011, Oleksandr and Halyna Hereha took 27th place in the ranking of the richest people in Ukraine according to FOCUS magazine with a fortune of $890.8 million. In a similar ranking for 2010, they held 26th place with a fortune of $395.4 million.

Halyna Hereha

In 2012, she ran for the Verkhovna Rada in the G215 constituency (Kyiv, Troieshchyna), but was defeated by Andriy Ilyenko, a candidate from the All-Ukrainian Union of Freedom.

See also

List of mayors of Kyiv

References

1959 births

Living people

Politicians from Lviv Oblast

Mayors of Kyiv

21st-century Ukrainian women politicians

Ukrainian women in business