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“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 44 years old, is the 6th President of Ukraine.
Zelensky who was born to Jewish parents, a University Professor father and an Engineer mother, studied law at one of Ukraine’s best universities (ranked in the top 3), but decided after graduation that he did not want to practise law.
After his degree, he went into comedy, eventually setting up a TV production company, that created several TV shows, films and cartoons.
He acted and starred in many films and TV shows, but it is one of the TV shows he created ‘Servant of the people’, that changed his trajectory.
In the highly successful comedic TV show, he played a fictional Ukraine President. The show ran for 5 years (2015 – 2019) and catapulted him to great fame.
In 2018, Zelensky set up a political party, also called ‘Servant of the People’ and ran a highly successful presidential campaign in 3 – 4 months of viral campaigning, that saw him defeat a billionaire sitting President, and win the presidency with 73.3% of the vote in the Ukrainian 2019 presidential elections.
This lawyer, businessman and actor, parlayed all these elements of his life into running for, and winning the Ukraine presidency when he was only 41 years old.
Zelensky is married with 2 children. In 2018, the asset documentation released by presidential candidates, he declared assets of $1.5Million dollars.
Most would agree that Zelensky has had a highly successful career. ;-)…”
By Dele Momodu, Politician & Columnist
