Press-releases
25.01.2011
At the 7th Davos Ukrainian Lunch Viktor Yanukovych and Bronislaw Komorowski will discuss the role of EURO 2012 for the development of Ukraine and Poland
On Friday, 28 January 2011, in Davos (Switzerland), the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and international investment advisory group EastOne will hold the 7th Davos Ukrainian Lunch at the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. This year’s Davos Ukrainian Lunch entitled ‘2012@PL&UA’ will feature President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski.
The key topics to be discussed include the preparations to the UEFA 2012 European Football Championship (EURO 2012) that will be jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine. The two heads of states will also focus on issues like developing the countries’ tourism potential, ways of raising investments to fund major infrastructure projects, and fostering the European and global integration of Ukraine within the framework of the cooperation with Poland – the EURO–2012 is the first ever international project on that level between Poland and Ukraine.
Around 300 leaders from business, politics, the third sector and journalists will attend the event.
The Davos Ukrainian Lunch is the most preeminent international gathering dedicated to Ukraine, held annually in Davos at the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. It is dedicated to giving world leaders an opportunity to learn about and discuss Ukraine’s political and economic situation and challenge. The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and international investment advisory group EastOne have been hosting the Davos Ukrainian Lunch since 2005. Since then the Ukrainian Lunch featured, among others, Viktor Yanukovych, Carl Bildt, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Chris Patten, George Soros, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Thomas Friedman, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
The 7th Davos Ukrainian Lunch is supported by partners:
General partner - DCH
Communications partner - Kyivstar
Special partner - Alfa-Bank
Partner - Horizon Capital
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The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is an international, private, non-partisan, philanthropic foundation based in Ukraine. The Foundation was established in 2006 by businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk. Its goal is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow. To achieve this goal, it develops a variety of projects, build partnerships in Ukraine and worldwide, and invests in three main areas:
- in people, to boost human capital,
- in society, to promote social responsibility,
- in the world, to foster a more integrated world.
The projects of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation include the network of neonatal centres ‘Cradles of Hope’, the largest private scholarship program in Ukraine ‘Zavtra.UA’, the ‘WorldWideStudies’ project encouraging Ukrainian youth to get Master’s degrees in the world’s best universities, the centre for contemporary art PinchukArtCentre, and the international network YES (Yalta European Strategy) to support Ukraine’s European integration.
The Foundation is a member of the European Foundation Center and the Ukrainian Grant Makers Forum. It cooperates with the Clinton Global Initiative, the Brookings Institution, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other non-governmental organisations.
EastOne
EastOne is an international investment advisory group that provides strategic and investment management services to a diversified portfolio of assets across multiple geographical and industrial sectors. The group was established in 2007 by Victor Pinchuk. EastOne provides a broad range of services to assets under its mandate: portfolio strategy development and implementation, sector expertise, long-term business planning, support for M&A and capital market transactions, risk and performance management. In addition, the Group advises on corporate social responsibility, broader social innovations and not-for-profit activities. EastOne provides services to a portfolio of over twenty companies and large scale projects, among them the Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company, Ukrainian media investments (TV Channels: STB, Novy and ICTV; Fakty i Komentarii newspaper, Ekonomika publishing house (InvestGazeta, Delo, and other).
EastOne’s Chief Executive Officer is Mr. Gennady Gazin.
EastOne is headquartered in London, with its offices in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
