Syarhey Rumas

Syarhey Rumas
Сяргей Мікалаевіч Румас
9th Prime Minister of Belarus
Assumed office
18 August 2018
President Alexander Lukashenko
Preceded by Andrei Kobyakov
Personal details
Born Syarhey Mikalayevich Rumas
1 December 1969 (age 48)
Gomel, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Children 4
Alma mater Military Finance and Economics Institute
Academy of Public Administration

Syarhey Mikalayevich Rumas (Belarusian: Сяргей Мікалаевіч Румас, Russian: Сергей Николаевич Румас/Sergey Nikolayevich Rumas, born 1 December 1969 in Gomel) is a Belarusian politician and economist who was appointed Prime Minister of Belarus on 18 August 2018.[1]

Biography

Rumas was born in Gomel, but in early 1970s his family moved to Minsk. He graduated from the Higher Military Financial School in Yaroslavl (1990) and the Academy of Public Administration in Minsk (1995).[2][3] In the early 1990s Rumas successively served in the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus as a chief of several departments and in private banks. In 1995, he became a regional director of Belarusbank and later became the first deputy chairman of the board of this bank.[3] In 2001, Rumas was awarded a Candidate of Sciences degree in economics, his thesis was entitled "Ways of optimization of resource structure of commercial bank".[4] In 2005, he headed Belagroprombank, another big state-owned bank in Belarus.[5]

In 2010, he was made a vice-premier in the new government led by his old acquaintance Mikhail Myasnikovich. During the financial crisis of 2011, Rumas supervised the creation of a program of structural reforms, which was criticized by the president Alexander Lukashenko and his adviser Sergey Tkachyov. Rumas advocated privatization, foreign investments, and abolition of preferential loans for state-owned companies[6][7][5] In 2012, Alexander Lukashenko appointed him a head of Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus.[3]

Rumas was appointed Prime Minister by Alexander Lukashenko on August 18, 2018.[8] The decree had a clause on the subsequent approval of Rumas's appointment in the House of Representatives, but the Constitution prescribes an opposite procedure. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, his predcessor Andrey Kobyakov was appointed in the same way.[9][10][11]

Rumas also heads the Football Federation of Belarus.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Кто такой Сергей Румас, которого Лукашенко назначил 18 августа премьер-министром" (in Russian). Intex-Press. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Кто вы, господин Румас?
  3. 1 2 3 4 Сергей Румас
  4. ↑ Пути оптимизации структуры ресурсов коммерческого банка: Автореф. дис. на соиск. учен. степ. канд. экон. наук: 08.00.10 / Румас Сергей Николаевич
  5. 1 2 Кто такой Сергей Румас? Банкир, либерал, футбольный болельщик, охотник, многодетный отец
  6. ↑ Сергей Румас больше не вице-премьер Беларуси
  7. ↑ Кто придет на место Румаса?
  8. ↑ Президент сменил правительство. Новым премьер-министром назначен Сергей Румас
  9. ↑ Прэм’ера Румаса прызначылі, не спытаўшы згоды дэпутатаў. Гэта законна?
  10. ↑ Прэм’ера Румаса прызначылі, не спытаўшы згоды дэпутатаў. Гэта законна?
  11. ↑ CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS OF 1994 (with changes and additions adopted at the republican referenda of November 24, 1996* and of October 17, 2004): Article 106 "...The Prime Minister shall be appointed by the President of the Republic of Belarus with the consent of the House of Representatives. The decision on this issue shall be taken by the House of Representatives within two weeks from the day of submitting a proposal on the candidacy of Prime Minister"
Political offices
Preceded by
Andrei Kobyakov		 Prime Minister of Belarus
2018–present		 Incumbent
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