Nadezhda Kuzmicheva

Nadezhda Kuzmicheva is a Ukrainian educator, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Brief biography

Nadezhda Kuzmicheva was born on November 29, 1985.

She received her higher education at Zaporizhzhya National University, where she received a master's degree in sociology. There she also studied at the postgraduate program.

Since 2022, Kuzmicheva has also been studying at the master's program in global management at the American University of Kiev.

She has worked in education and business.

From 2008-2017, Kuzmicheva taught at the Department of Sociology at Zaporizhzhya National University (ZNU).

Until 2018, she headed the Center for Independent Sociological Research at ZNU. The Center studied the issues of virtue, corruption risks, quality of education, models of formation of high school students' choice of profession.

Kuzmicheva was co-founder and CEO of Global Education LLC.

She managed the opening of the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies in Kiev. In this Center teenagers 12-18 years old can get alternative practice-oriented education. A similar space under the UA-Teens brand was later opened in Lviv.

Since 2023, she has been an advisor to Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology. Kuzmicheva also headed the implementation office.

From the same 2023, Kuzmicheva was in charge of supervising strategic projects of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in particular, "School Offline", "New model of teachers' salaries".

Since September 2024, she has been appointed Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, where she will be responsible for school education.