Oleksandr Vilkul has extensive experience in managing industrial enterprises, as well as in parliament and executive government. He is the founder of the Ukrainian Perspective Foundation.
He has been named among Ukraine’s top ten executives five times in the "TOP-100. Best Top Managers of Ukraine" and "Guard of Executives" rankings.
From 2010 to 2012, Oleksandr Vilkul served as Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. From 2012 to 2014, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for Regional Development, Housing and Communal Services, and Infrastructure.
In 2014, Oleksandr established the Ukrainian Perspective Foundation. The Foundation has provided systematic assistance to people displaced by the war and has implemented a range of other social projects.
Oleksandr served as a Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine during its 5th, 6th, and 8th convocations. He served as Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship. He was also a member of the Committee on European Integration and parliamentary friendship groups with Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Since 2022, he has headed the Defence Council of Kryvyi Rih. With the support of the Defence Council, the city has implemented a number of social support programmes during the war, including 50 types of direct financial assistance from the city budget, free public transport, and free food packages for 40 categories of residents. The city also operates a programme providing assistance to people whose homes have been damaged by shelling.
As part of the city’s veterans’ policy, a comprehensive programme supporting veterans and their families has also been implemented. It includes 70 measures across 10 key areas. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, support from Kryvyi Rih for Ukraine’s Defence Forces has exceeded UAH 3.612 billion and has been provided to 280 military units and formations.
Oleksandr Vilkul has received the following awards and honorary distinctions:
For businesses in frontline regions, risk has long been part of daily operations. Companies must maintain production, their workforce, logistics, and energy supply simultaneously while continually adapting to new threats.
What enables businesses to remain and operate under such conditions, what support do they need from the state and local communities, and how can the economic life of frontline regions be preserved? We will discuss this at KIEF 2026 during the panel discussion "Under Fire: How Business Keeps Running in Frontline Cities".