Yuliya Svyrydenko was born on 25 December 1985 in Chernihiv.
She graduated with honours from Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics and obtained a master's degree in Antimonopoly Management. In 2009, she completed a full course in accounting at the Kyiv School of Market Economy. She completed courses at the State Property Fund of Ukraine and is a certified specialist in real estate and equipment valuation, as well as business, securities, intangible assets, and intellectual property valuation. She completed a series of training courses in land valuation at the Kyiv International Institute of Business.
She began her career in 2008 as a financial economist at the Ukrainian-Andorran joint venture AMP JSC (Kyiv). She worked as an appraiser at the Chernihiv Intercity Technical Inventory Bureau and as deputy director of Eco-Vtor LLC (Kyiv).
Since 2015, she has held management positions in the Chernihiv Regional State Administration: she headed the Department of Economic Development, served as first deputy head of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration, and from July to December 2018, she served as acting head of the regional state administration.
Since 29 September 2019, she has been Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine, and since 22 July 2020, she has been First Deputy Minister.
By decree of the President of Ukraine on 22 December 2020, she was appointed Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
On 4 November 2021, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Yuliya Svyrydenko as First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy.
It was Yuliya Svyrydenko who signed an agreement with US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent on the creation of the US-Ukraine Investment Fund for Reconstruction in Washington on 30 April 2025.
On 8 May, parliament ratified the agreement with the US. But MPs rewrote the text.
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In particular, in 2024, her salary amounted to 1,205,771 hryvnias, fees and other payments under civil law agreements from the Kyiv School of Economics amounted to 3,102,506 hryvnias, income from leasing property amounted to 133 thousand hryvnias, and bank interest amounted to 66 hryvnias. She also reported 377,500 hryvnias in bank accounts and $4,000 in cash.
Svyrydenko owns an apartment (33.5 square metres) in Kyiv, an apartment (74.3 sq. m) in Chernihiv and another 25% of an apartment (87.5 sq. m) in Chernihiv, a land plot (1,496 sq. m) in the Chernihiv Region, and also rents an apartment (119.8 sq. m) and a parking space (23 sq. m) in Kyiv.
In 2022, Svyrydenko declared 975,000 hryvnias in income, and in 2023, 1.9 million hryvnias.
Incidentally, Volodymyr Aryev, a member of parliament from the European Solidarity party, called Svyrydenko's million-dollar fees from the Kyiv School of Economics ‘a story of conflict of interest,’ arguing that in 2024, the Kyiv School of Economics was the executor of grant programmes whose beneficiary was the Ministry of Economy headed by Svyrydenko.
In response, the president of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Tymofiy Mylovanov, called this reaction a ‘political attack’ by Petro Poroshenko's party.
According to Mylovanov, this amount corresponds to market rates for specialists of her level.
The media remind us that Yuliya Svyrydenko's husband, Serhiy Derlemenko, heads the companies DKS-Group LLC and Ditel LLC, which are engaged in construction, repair, telecommunications and communication network maintenance. In 2015, Serhiy Derlemenko ran for the Chernihiv City Council from the Samopomich party, but was not elected. The couple has a daughter, Sofia.