Oleksandr Kornienko
Oleksandr Serhiyovych Kornienko is a Ukrainian politician, business coach and development consultant. He is one of the leading members of Servant of the People political party. Kornienko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.Biography
Kornienko received his education at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and studied at the Wiesbaden Academy for Psychotherapy.
Kornienko worked as a journalist from 2001 until 2006. Between 2005 and 2008 and again from 2011 to 2013 he was the concert director and manager of the Ukrainian rock band Krykhitka. Since 2005 Kornienko worked in youth orientated NGO's. Kornienko is one of the founders and leaders of the Initiative Youth Union organization. From 2010 to 2019 he worked as a business coach and development consultant.
In 2006 Kornienko started a career as political counsellor during election campaigns with various forces and candidates. During the 2015 Ukrainian local elections he worked at the headquarters mayoral candidate of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Senkevych for the party Self Reliance. Senkevych was elected Mayor. Kornienko served as the national coordinator for Volodymyr Zelenskiy's 2019 presidential campaign and reprised this role for the party Servant of the People in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Kornienko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as number 7 on the candidate list of Servant of the People. On 10 November 2019 Kornienko was elected head of this party.
Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning.
