Hryhoriy Surkis

Who is Hryhoriy Surkis?

Hryhoriy Surkis; born September 4, 1949 in Odessa is a Ukrainian businessman and politician, one of five vice-presidents of UEFA since 24 May 2013. Surkis was the president of Football Federation of Ukraine till September 2012.

Hryhoriy was born to a Jewish family. His father Mikhail Davydovych Surkis was a military doctor, mother, Rimma Yakivna Surkis, - sales specialist. He also has a brother Ihor Surkis. Surkis has an undergraduate diploma of an engineer-mechanic. At 22 he finished the Kyivan technological institute of food industry under a specialty in machines and apparatuses of food production. Already while in school, he worked as a senior engineer in material-technological logistic for Holovplodvynprom of Ukraine in 1971. From 1974 to 1988 he worked as a deputy-chief at "Kyivzhytlorembudmontazh", foreman of the SRBU#1 in Kharkiv, and chief of logistics for RBU #3. Then and until 1991 he held a variety of a technical leadership positions at the Kyiv City Council such as a chief engineer, chief of department, and others.

From 1991 to 1993 Surkis became a general director of "Dynamo-Atlantic". From 1993 to 1998 he was the president of the Ukrainian industrial financial concern Slavutych and the FC Dynamo Kyiv, LLC. Since 1998 and until 2006 he was a people representative of Ukraine, and since 1998 he has been a member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.