Participants of the 5th Davos Ukrainian Lunch will discuss the ways to overcome global economic crisis

During the World Economic Forum, international investment advisory group EastOne and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will conduct the 5th Davos Ukrainian Lunch "Crisis: In & Out".

[for a full archive of information on the event – see project's page]

The Ukrainian lunch will take place on January 30 at the Morosani Schweizerhof Hotel.

The main topic of the discussion will be the new structure of the global economic and financial relations taking shape under the influence of crisis. The Lunch participants will try to analyse the evolution of the global challenges and their effect on Ukraine, find the most advantageous ways to strengthen transnational cooperation in view of today's realities and also define a concept for the future economic development of Ukraine in the global context, taking into account new risks and new opportunities.

The key speakers at the Davos Ukrainian Lunch include Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine on European and International Integration Hryhory Nemyrya; Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Ex-speaker of Parliament of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk; financier, investor and philanthropist George Soros; famous columnist of
The New York Times newspaper Thomas Friedman. The former European Commissioner for External Relations, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and
Co-chairman of the International Crisis Group Chris Patten will moderate the discussion.

The event will gather more than 200 delegates from the top world's companies, politicians and public figures from Ukraine, Russia, USA, Germany, France and other countries, as well as Ukrainian and international mass-media representatives. Deutsche Bank AG, Morgan Stanely, ArcelorMittal, ITI Group, Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC, Bombardier Inc., Nestlé SA, Soros Fund Management LLC, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Renova, VTB and other companies have already confirmed their presence at the Lunch.

The Davos Ukrainian Lunch hosted for the 5th year since 2005 has become a traditional event, which is conducted during the World Economic Forum and one of the most significant international events intended to form opinion of the international elite as to the tendencies in political, economic and investment environment of Ukraine.

Editors note

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation (pinchukfund.org)

Established in 2006 by a businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is one of the largest Ukrainian private philanthropic organizations. The Foundation develops and implements social projects aimed at modernising Ukraine and the bringing about a new generation of Ukrainian leaders.

The Foundation's top fields of activities are health care, education, culture, human rights, Ukraine's global integration and local communities' development.

Among the largest projects of the Foundation are: the "Cradles of Hope" Programme for opening neonatal health care centres all over Ukraine, student scholarship programme "Zavtra.UA", the PinchukArtCentre contemporary art museum, international network YES (Yalta European Strategy) to support Ukraine's aspirations for European integration.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a member of European Fund Centre and Ukrainian Grant makers Forum, a partner of the Yalta European Strategy (YES); the Foundation cooperates with Clinton's Global Initiative and other non-governmental organizations.

EastOne (eastonegroup.com)

EastOne is an international investment advisory group that provides strategic and investment management services to a diversified portfolio of assets across multiple geographies and industry 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 also 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.

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