Yuliy Yoffe
Republican Party Vice Chairman Yuliy Yoffe is a four-term member of parliament with extensive experience in state matters and business. He was born in Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine, in 1940, and graduated from the nearby Komunarsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute as an electrical engineer in 1964. He has represented the Lugansk region in Parliament.

Before co-founding the Republican Party of Ukraine in January 2005, he had served on Parliament’s Committee on State Construction Projects and Local Self-Government, as well as an energy advisor to the president of the republic and a supervisory director on Ukraine’s largest energy company, Naftogaz.

He has been active in promoting increased powers for local administrations and served on the State Commission for Administrative Reform.

In the business arena, he is recognized as a leading expert on energy, a sector in which he has 34 years experience.

In politics, he is considered an outstanding party organizer.

He is married with two sons and four grandchildren.