Andriy Yermak


Andriy Yermak is a Ukrainian film producer, lawyer and current Head of the Presidential Administration. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed him on 11 February 2020.

Biography

Andriy Yermak was born on 21 November 1971 in Kiev, Ukraine. Yermak's Russian born mother Maria met his Kiev native father Borys on a school trip of a Leningrad school to Kiev. They met through mutual acquaintances. The couple married in 1971 and she moved to Kiev. Yermak has a brother Denis, who is 8 years younger.
In 1990 he started and in 1995 Yermak graduated from Kiev's Taras Shevchenko National University's Institute of International Relations with a master's degree in international private law. The same year he received his license for law practice. In his second year of University, at the request of one of his teachers, he started working for the law company Proxen.
In 1997 Yermak founded the International Law Firm and was engaged in the field of intellectual property and commercial law. Between 2006 and 2014 he, in his profession as lawyer, aided Party of Regions MP Elbrus Tedeyev.
In the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election Yermak was a proxy of candidate Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev's 216th constituency.
Yermak founded the Garnet International Media Group in 2012 and is the producer of such films as "" and "The line".
Yermak became acquainted with Volodymyr Zelensky in 2011, when Zelensky was the general producer of the TV channel Inter. The two became friends.
Yermak worked in Zelensky's election campaign team of the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
On 21 May 2019 newly elected President Zelensky appointed Yermak as Presidential Aide for Foreign Policy Issues. In this role he negotiated major prison exchanges with Russia during the War in Donbas. Yermak was the point of contact for Kurt Volker and Rudy Giuliani on behalf of Zelensky during the buildup of the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
President Zelensky appointed Yermak as Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine on 11 February 2020.
Member of the NSDC since 12 February 2020.

Personal life

Yermak has lived in Kiev his whole life is single and has no children.
Yermak has a brother Denys Yermak.