| Pavlo Kukhta | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Office: | Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture |
| President: | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Primeminister: | Denys Shmyhal |
| Term Start: | 4 March 2020 |
| Term End: | 17 March 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Tymofiy Mylovanov |
| Successor: | Ihor Petrashko |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1985 |
| Birth Place: | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Spouse: | Iuliia Mendel |
| Education: | Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Aspen Institute |
| Occupation: | Economist politician |
| Party: | Voice |
Pavlo Andriiovych Kukhta (Ukrainian: Павло Андрійович Кухта; born 3 December 1985)[1] is a Ukrainian economist and politician. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.[2] [3]
He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. In 2018, he studied at Aspen Institute Kyiv.[4]
Kukhta is an economist at the Center for Economic Solutions. He cooperated with the Reanimation Package of Reforms.[4]
From 2015 to 2019, he worked as an adviser to the Minister of Finance.[4]
From 2016 to 2019, he was an adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine.[4]
In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kukhta failed as a candidate of Voice to get elected to parliament.[4] His 25th place on the national election list was 8 places behind the elected members of the party.[4] [5]
From September 2019 to April 2020, Kukhta served as First Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.[6] [7]
On March 26, 2022, Pavlo Kukhta went to the front line of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,[8] and around April 20, 2022, he resigned from the army.[9]