Victor Pinchuk conferred with the title of the ‘Honoured citizen of Kyiv’

On May 21st, 2009, according to the decision of the Kyiv City Council, Victor Pinchuk was conferred with the title of the ‘Honoured Citizen of Kyiv’ for the ‘valuable personal contribution to the development of business in Ukraine and in the city of Kyiv, for strengthening the international authority of the Ukrainian capital – Kyiv – and for personal merits in the state, public, philanthropic and cultural activity, and on the occasion of the celebration of Kyiv Day’.

For more than 12 years Mr. Pinchuk has been developing and supporting a number of philanthropic projects in Ukraine. In 2006, he consolidated these activities under the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which became the largest private Ukrainian philanthropic foundation. Its numerous projects include the creation of a network of modern neonatal centres throughout Ukraine, cooperation programs with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the ANTIAIDS Foundation of his wife Elena Franchuk, the creation of the Kyiv School of Economics, a cooperation with the Aspen Institute, the opening of the PinchukArtCentre, a first large scale contemporary art centre in Ukraine, the creation and development of the only Ukrainian private chamber orchestra, a charitable concert with Paul McCartney, the production and promotion of a film with Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust in Ukraine, human rights projects with George Soros and support of local Jewish communities.

Mr. Pinchuk has long promoted closer ties between Ukraine and the EU. In 2004, he created the Yalta European Strategy - YES - an international independent organization that is promoting Ukraine joining the European Union. Its annual meeting every summer in Yalta has become the main high-level Ukraine-EU forum for debate and policy recommendations.

Mr. Pinchuk serves as a member of the Board of the International Crisis Group, a member of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a member of the International Advisory Council of Brookings Institution and a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the Global Business Coalition against HIV/AIDS.

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