PERSON: Dmytro Kuleba

Government of Ukraine

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba (born 19 April 1981) is a Ukrainian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was concurrently a member of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine.

The youngest foreign affairs minister in Ukraine’s history (after Arseniy Yatsenyuk), he previously worked as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe between 2016 and 2019.

On 4 September 2024, he resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs amidst a cabinet shuffle.

Kuleba was born on 19 April 1981 in Sumy, in the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. In 2003, he graduated with honors with a degree in International Law from the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Kuleba subsequently obtained a Candidate of Sciences degree (the degree of Candidate of Sciences was replaced with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) in Law in 2006.

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