Serhii Kyral
Deputy Mayor - Lviv, Ukraine
Lviv is one of Ukraine’s leading cities, with a population of over 800,000 and a strong role as a regional economic, cultural, innovation and resilience hub in Eastern Europe.
The city is actively developing its energy transition agenda, focusing on decarbonisation of city infrastructure and utilities, the resilience of the critical infrastructure to the attacks from air, district heating backup and modernisation, establishing the new energy generation and the development of renewable energy sources. Despite the russian war we are still developing our critical infrastructure projects, like the construction of a biogas station on sewage sludge, rehabilitation of the city landfill, and construction of the MBT solid waste treatment plant.
Serhii Kiral is the Deputy Mayor of Lviv for International Cooperation, with extensive experience in municipal and international development. He holds degrees in Foreign Languages (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) and Management (MBA, Lviv Institute of Management) and completed internships in Spain, Canada, and Ukraine. He began his career as a translator and consultant, later leading investment and marketing initiatives in both the private sector and Lviv City Council. He served as a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament and continues to build strategic international partnerships for Lviv.
The role of municipalities and mayoral teams has significantly evolved from service providers to key actors in managing complex transitions and crises. If before the cities were just silent consumers of energy and most utilities, paying tier bills to national or private monopolies for generation, transmission and distribution of energy, today the cities turned into active consumers and participants of the electricity market providing their own energy from renewables.
Serhii Kyral
