Ihor Sorkin
Ihor Vyacheslavovych Sorkin is a Ukrainian banker who was the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine between 2013 and 2014.
Early years and military service
Igor Sorkin was born on March 3, 1967, in Donetsk. He graduated from high school in 1984. From 1988 to 1996, he served in the Soviet Army and the National Guard of Ukraine.Education
Ihor Sorkin has three higher education degrees:- in 1988, he graduated from the Baku Higher Combined-Arms Command School with a degree in engineering.
- in 1998, he graduated from Donetsk State University with a degree in law.
- in 2006, he graduated from Donetsk National University with a degree in banking.
Career
Since 1996, he has been working in the system of the National Bank of UkraineIn July 2010, he was appointed deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine
Since January 17, 2011, he was the 3d ranking civil servant.
In December 2012, he became acting governor of the National Bank of Ukraine and on January 11, 2013, he was appointed governor of the National Bank of Ukraine by Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine after being proposed by President Viktor Yanukovych.
Since January 18, 2013, he has been a member of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
On 24 February 2014, just after the "Maidan revolution", the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Sorkin as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.
On 17 March 2014, the Kyiv Pechersky District Court approved the arrest Sorkin in absentia on suspicion of embezzlement.
Family
Sorkin's parents live in Moscow, Russia. Where his father Vyacheslav Sorkin is an executive of Gazprom.Sorkin's wife Anzhela is a former executive of UkrBusinessBank. The head of the board of this bank was Sorkins predecessor as national bank governor Serhiy Arbuzov; while UkrBusinessBank was owned by Oleksandr Yanukovych who is the son of president Viktor Yanukovych at the time of the appointment of Sorkin as national bank governor.