| Oleksiy Orzhel | |
| Office: | Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine |
| Primeminister: | Oleksiy Honcharuk |
| Term Start: | 29 August 2019 |
| Term End: | 4 March 2020 |
| Successor: | Vitaliy Shubin (Acting)[1] |
| Office1: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
| Term Start1: | 29 August 2019 |
| Term End1: | 29 August 2019 |
| Birth Name: | Oleksiy Anatoliyovych Orzhel |
| Birth Date: | 26 January 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Education: | Kyiv Polytechnic Institute |
| Occupation: | energy expert politician |
| Party: | Servant of the People |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
Oleksiy Anatoliyovych Orzhel (Олексій Анатолійович Оржель; born 26 January 1984[2]) is a Ukrainian energy expert and politician. He was Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine from August 2019 to 4 March 2020.[3] [4]
Orzhel graduated from the Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.[5]
He was the Head of the Energy Sector at the Better Regulation Delivery Office.[6] From 2006 to 2014, Orzhel worked at the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities.[7]
Head of the Ukrainian Association of Renewable Energy.[7]
He was on a party list of the Servant of the People political party during the 2019 parliamentary elections,[8] yet himself is not a registered member of the party (non-partisan, according to the Central Election Commission).[9] Orzhel was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.[10] He surrendered his deputy mandate upon his ministerial appointment on 29 August 2019. On March 4, 2020, he was dismissed from the post of Minister.[11] [12]