Ivan Mykhailovych Hryshchenko (born on 11, 1956, Kamin, Krolevets district, Sumy region, Ukrainian SSR) is an economist, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. Member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the first convocation (1990-1994). Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, civil servant of the 1st rank. Rector of Kyiv University of Technology and Design (since 2010). Honorary Doctor of Khmelnytskyi National University.
Biography
He was born on November 11, 1956 in the village Kamin of the Krolevets district of Sumy region in a peasant family. He started working at the age of 15 at the handyman collective farm named after Zhdanov, Krolevetsky district, Sumy region. He graduated from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy in Kyiv (now National University of Bioresources and Nature Management) with a degree in mechanical engineering. and economist-organizer. After graduating from the academy, from 1979 he was the chief engineer of the collective farm named after Kovpak of Krolevetsky district, Sumy region. At the age of 24, he was elected chairman of the collective farm named after Zhdanov of the Krolevetsky district (Kamin village). From 1986 to 1988, he was a student of the Higher Party School at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
In 1988, I. M. Hryshchenko defended his candidate's thesis in economics at the Lviv Agricultural Institute. In 2008, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Scientific-methodological principles of complex management of commercial mediation" at the Scientific Research Institute of Economics (NDEI).
In 1988, he was elected the second, and a year later, the first secretary of the Krolevets district committee of the party. In 1990, he was elected chairman of the Krolevetska District Council of People's Deputies and the Executive Committee. Elected People's Deputy of Ukraine for the majority Krolevetsk electoral district No. 350 (1990). Since 1994, he has been the head of the department for supplying petroleum products to the agricultural industry in the State concern "Ukragrotechservice" (Kyiv), the director of the company "Agroenergo", the deputy chairman of the board of the concern. Since 1999, he worked in the positions of the corporation "Agrotech" (Kyiv) as the vice president of the corporation, the director of the company, the deputy chairman of the board of the corporation. He held the position of vice-rector for economic issues and prospective development of the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design (2003-2008). Worked as deputy director for scientific and innovative work at the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine (2008-2010). Since 2010 - rector.
Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal "Visnyk KNUTD", Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Electronic Journal "Technology and Design", Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal "Management" and "Light Industry", Member of the Editorial Board of the Specialized Journal "Economy and Management", Member of the Editorial Board of the Specialized Journal " Economy and the State", member of the editorial board of the professional magazine "Labor Market and Population Employment". Since 2015, he has been elected a member of the executive committee of the Sports Student Union of Ukraine, a member of the presidium of the "Knowledge of Ukraine" society.
Honorary citizen of Kralevechyna. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the III degree, the Certificate of Honor of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Certificate of Honor of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Signs of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine: "Excellent in Education of Ukraine" and "Petro Mohyla", the «K. D. Ushinsky Sign» NAPS of Ukraine, etc.State prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology in 2013.