Mykola Prysyazhnyuk

Mykola Prysyazhnyuk (Микола Володимирович Присяжнюк; born 3 January 1960 ) is the former Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.

Biography
Prysyazhnyuk graduated from Voronezh University and the Donbas Mining-Metallurgical Institute. He has worked as a diamond cutter before becoming a chief process engineer at Ordzhonikidzevugillya coal mine. In the years 2002-2005 he was the first deputy chairman of Zhytomyr Regional State Administration and in the years 2005-2007 head of the National Association of Meat and Meat Products Producers before becoming a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) for the Party of Regions in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, keeping his seat in the 2007 elections. He did not participate in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.