Valery Teziyovych Pyatnitsky (Ukrainian: Валерій Тезійович Пятницький) is Ukrainian politician and statesman. Government's Commissioner for European Integration (since 2011).
Valery Pyatnitsky was born April 19, 1962, in Chervona Motovylivka (Fastiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR).
In 1985 graduated from faculty of cybernetics in Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv (specialty «Economic Cybernetics», qualification «economist-mathematician»).
During 1987–1990 – PhD student of Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv. in 1999–2002 – doctorant in Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics.
Candidate of Economics Sciences. Docent.
Pyatnitsky was appointed by the Yatsenyuk Government to lead the (newly created) Institution of Trade Representative in Ukraine on 20 August 2014.[2] Then Minister of Economical Development and Trade Pavlo Sheremeta disagreed with this appointment and resigned over it (he felt that he as Minister himself should have nominated candidates for his deputies) on 21 August 2014.[2]