Andrii Leonidovych Prokopenko (; born 10 January 1982) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. Prokopenko is a former Governor of Chernihiv Oblast. Biography In 2003, he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Prokopenko is a Candidate of Sciences in Social philosophy. Former Deputy director of NGO “Youth Alternative” and Executive director of the NGO "Institute of Social Development". In 2012-2013, he worked as an Adviser to the Vice president and headed the Communications department of the major vertically-integrated oil company - TNK-BP. Until in 2013 TNK-BP was acquired by Russian oil company Rosneft. He was a managing partner of Prokopenko & Partners, specializing in Election campaign management, strategic and crisis communications. Early political career In 2015 Prokopenko was elected as a member of the Chernihiv Oblast Council for the party Our Land. He headed the Permanent Commission of the Chernihiv Oblast Council on issues of Public utility, Transport and Infrastructure. During his work, he managed to fulfill his pre-election promise and ensured the adoption of the Regional Energy Efficiency Program by the Chernihiv Oblast Council, which reimbursed to population costs of loans received for energy saving, and aimed to increase the Energy independence of Ukraine and reduce the consumption of russian natural gas. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Prokopenko was the head of the Odesa regional headquarters of the party Servant of the People Governor of Chernihiv Oblast Prokopenko was Governor of Chernihiv Oblast from 1 November 2019 until 13 October 2020. According to International Centre for Policy Studies research Andrii Prokopenko was one of the Top-3 best Ukrainian governors together with Vladyslav Skalsky and Denys Shmyhal. According to Ministry of Communities and Territories Development (Ukraine), during the tenure of governor Andrii Prokopenko, Chernihiv region raised from 15th to 9th place among the regions of Ukraine in the ranking of socio-economic development of Ukraine's regions. In 2020 Chernihiv region was in Top-3 regions in terms of implementation of the Decentralisation in Ukraine reform and local self-government reform. During Prokopenko's leadership, Chernihiv Oblast entered the Top-5 among regions in terms of the pace of implementation of the program of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy "The Big Construction". Under the supervision of Andrii Prokopenko, in 2020, for the first time since 2012, a newly built school was opened in Chernihiv Oblast. A new school was opened in Nosivka, the city where U.S. Representative Victoria Spartz was born. The