On June 3, 2025, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine approved the new composition of the Supervisory Board of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
The new Supervisory Board of KPI includes world-renowned scientists, managers, and partners of KPI who will help our university develop even further and not only be a leader in higher education in Ukraine, but also set high standards for its sustainable development.
📌 MANAGERS AND PUBLIC SECTOR
• Oleksandr Kornienko – Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (First Deputy Chairman, Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
• Oleksandr Kamyshin – Advisor to the President of Ukraine on Strategic Issues, Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine 2023–2024
• Darka Olifer – Leonid Kuchma Presidential Fund “Ukraine” (Secretary of the Supervisory Board)
📌 HIGH-TECH BUSINESS
• Oleksandr Konotopskyi – Ajax Systems (founder of the group of companies, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
• Stepan Mitish – EPAM (Head of EPAM Ukraine, Vice President of EPAM System)
• Oleksandr Olshanskyi – Internet Invest Group (President of the holding company, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council)
• Viktor Slobodyanyuk – PlazmaTek (founder and director of a group of companies)
• Oleg Urusky – Progresstech-Ukraine (director, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine 2020–2021)
📌 ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
• Anatoliy Zagorodniy – National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (President)
• Igor Kryvtsun – E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Director, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
• Vasyl Lazoryshynets – M. M. Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Director, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
• Ivan Sergienko – V. M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Director, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
• Yaroslav Yatskevych – Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Director, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
• Yuriy Gogotsi – 🇺🇸 E. J. Drexel Institute of Nanomaterials (Founder and Director, most cited scientist of Ukrainian origin in the world)
It is important to note that 40% of the Supervisory Board members are KPI graduates (Oleksandr Korniienko, Oleksandr Kamyshin, Oleksandr Konotopskyi, Stepan Mitish, Oleksandr Olshanskyi, Yurii Hohotsii). The Supervisory Board has been renewed by 50%.
We would like to thank the previous Supervisory Board, headed by Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005, for their significant contribution to the development of Igor Sikorsky KPI!