Oleksiy Volodymyrovych Kucher (Ukrainian: Олексій Володимирович Кучер; born 23 March 1985) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. Kucher was Governor of Kharkiv Oblast from November 2019 until November 2020.
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Biography
Kucher studied at the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.
He also graduated from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.
He obtained his lawyer's license in 2011. Teacher at the High School of Advocacy.
Kucher was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. As a candidate of Servant of the People he won election district 179 (located in Kharkiv Oblast) with 50.62% of the votes; Serhii Chernov of Opposition Bloc placed second with 17.25% of the votes. In parliament he became member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy.
On 11 November 2019 President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Kucher Governor of Kharkiv Oblast.
In the October 2020 Kharkiv mayoral election Kucher was the mayoral candidate of Servant of the People. He finished third with 7.24%, losing to incumbent mayor Hennadiy Kernes.
President Zelensky dismissed Kucher, as Governor of Kharkiv Oblast, on 27 November 2020.
Head of the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine
On January 13, 2021, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal signed CMU Resolution No. 12-p on the appointment of O. Kucher as the Head of the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine effective January 14, 2021, by concluding a contract for civil service for the period of quarantine.
After being appointed as the Head of the SRS in January 2021, he resigned his powers as a deputy of the Kharkiv City Council ahead of schedule.
By the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1230-r dated October 11, 2021, he was appointed Head of the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine for a five-year term, following a competitive selection process, effective October 13, 2021.