Bohdan Boyko

Bohdan Fedorovych Boyko (Богдан Федорович Бойко; born 29 September 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who formerly served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2002 as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine. He was also a candidate in 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Movement of Ukrainian Patriots. In 2000, he formed a third faction within the People's Movement of Ukraine aimed at reconciling the differences between two other opposing factions.

Biography
He was born on 29 September 1954 in the village of Pidiarkiv, in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast in what was then the Soviet Union.

Education

 * Ivan Franko Lviv State University, Faculty of Economics (1971–1976), economist;
 * graduate student at the Department of Political Economy, Lviv University (1979–1982);
 * Candidate's dissertation "Efficiency of commodity turnover of means of production in the period of developed socialism" (1982).

Career
1982–1986 – Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Lviv Agricultural Institute.

1986–1990 – Art. Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Political Economy, Ternopil Pedagogical Institute.

From 1990 – 1st Deputy Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council.

Since 15 January 1992 – Chairman of the Executive Committee and Regional Council.

April 1992 – June 1994 – Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council.

7 September 1996 – 20 April 1998 – Governor of Ternopil Oblast.

Since 1990 – co-chairman, chairman of the Ternopil Oblast council of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

1993 – co-chairman of the Ternopil Regional Council of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

1995–1999 – Deputy Chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

1995–1997 – c. at. Chairman, Chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine Secretariat.