Viktor Pynzenyk

Viktor Pynzenyk

Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник) (born April 15, 1954 in Smolohovytsia, Zakarpattia Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance. He is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party.

Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping to transform the country into a market economy and introducing Ukraine's new currency, the hryvnia in September 1996, with the help of Viktor Yushchenko, at the time Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.