Former head of Liman district administration Natalukha appointed head of the State Property Fund

Dmytro Natalukha, the former head of the Liman District State Administration in Odesa Oblast, has been appointed head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine. The decision was voted for by 244 MPs.

The decision was made by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

MP from the Servant of the People party, Natalukha, has been appointed chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine. Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko noted that the official has the necessary experience for this position.

Prior to the appointment, he emphasized that he had worked with three heads of the SPFU for more than six years in the parliamentary committee and sought to ensure the balanced operation of the fund.

"Our task is to approach non-core assets wisely and transfer them to private ownership, and to improve and launch strategic enterprises for the benefit of the economy," said Natalukha.

The State Property Fund has been without a full-fledged head since September 2024 after Vitaliy Koval resigned; before that, Ivanna Smachylo had been acting as the head.

After Natalukha's appointment, his parliamentary powers were terminated early, so the party lost one MP. During his tenure in the Verkhovna Rada, he voted for high-profile bills, including those on the work of the NABU and the SAPO, urban planning reform, and the issue of the Trilateral Contact Group with the SADLR.

Dmytro Natalukha also served as the head of the Liman District State Administration in Odesa Oblast from 2015 to 2017. He left the post in February 2017. Previously, he was engaged in GR, branding, and political consulting, was an advocacy expert at the Right to Protection All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, an associate researcher at the London-based Project for Democratic Union, and worked in leading law firms. He graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the University of Cambridge.

Анна Бальчінос