Victor Pinchuk Foundation to host Public Lecture “How to Get the Global Economy Back on Track” featuring director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics Fred Bergsten

On Friday, November 18, 2011, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will host a Public Lecture featuring Doctor C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The lecture to be given by this famous American economist is entitled How to Get the Global Economy Back on Track. After the lecture Dr. Bergsten will answer questions of the audience. Traditionally, the event will be attended by Zavtra.UA scholarship holders, selected students of the top Ukrainian universities and Ukrainian experts.

The Peterson Institute is led by Dr. Bergsten since its creation in 1981 and is the only major research institution in the United States devoted to international economic issues. It has been called "the most influential think tank on the planet".

Dr. Bergsten has been the most widely quoted think tank economist in the world over the eight-year period (1997–2005(. He was ranked 37 in the top 50 "Who Really Moves the Markets?" by Fidelity Investment’s Worth and as "one of the ten people who can change your life" by USA Today, along with the inventor of the World Wide Web and the discoverer of ozone layer depletion. He has received the Meritorious Honor Award of the Department of State, the Exceptional Service Award of the Treasury Department, and the Legion d’Honneur from the Government of France. Fred Bergsten has been named an honorary fellow of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

By organizing such a dialogue between world leaders, experts and Ukrainian students, the Foundation contributes to fostering a new generation of responsible leaders. For five years, the Foundation has been inviting internationally renowned economists, politicians and public figures to Ukraine to discuss today’s challenges facing the country and the world.

Following experts have previously given public lectures: Dr. Robert Engle, 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate; Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University; co-author of ‘Microeconomics’ Dr. Robert Pindyck; James Wolfensohn, the 9th president of the World Bank Group; Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Colin Powell, the 65th US Secretary of State; Javier Solana, former High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (1999-2009) and Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999); former Vice Chancellor of Germany Joschka Fischer; the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton; President of Israel Shimon Peres; Tony Blair, former Prime minister of Great Britain Tony Blair and others.

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All applications should be made via the Victor Pinchuk Foundation website only: http://pinchukfund.org/en/media/accreditation/4694/

Please note the application deadline is 17 November 2011 at 24:00.

For more details on the accreditation procedure, please call Olga Kudinenko on 044 494 11 48, 097 941 48 24 or send your e-mail topress@pinchukfund.org

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation (www.pinchukfund.org) 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 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 organizations.

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