Mustafa Nayyem

Mustafa Masi Nayyem (, ; born June 28, 1981) is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics, and public figure who was influential in sparking the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Since January 2023 Nayyem had been the head of the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development. He resigned (and was officially dismissed) in June 2024. Prior to this he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure appointed in August 2021.

Formerly, before his bureaucratic career Nayyem was a reporter for the newspaper ''Kommersant Ukraine'', the TVi channel, and the online newspaper ''Ukrayinska Pravda''. He also participates in Ukrainian journalists' anti-censorship movement, "Stop the censorship!" (, Stop tsenzuri!), and Hromadske.TV. In the parliamentary elections he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament on the list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Nayyem did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Provided by Wikipedia