Public Lectures: Global Leaders Inspiring Ukraine's Next Generation
Since 2006, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has been inviting global thinkers and leaders to Ukraine to inspire the country's brightest and most active students. Young Ukrainians discuss the challenges facing Ukraine and the world with some of the leading minds of our time. These conversations help the next generation to ask new questions and broaden their worldview.
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It is impossible to have a future if you cannot think about the past. If you do not know where you are coming from, there is no way that you know where you are going.
In 2019, Daron Acemoğlu, Institute Professor, MIT, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, the President of Colombia (2010-2014; 2014-2018) and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Yuval Harari, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Kersti Kaljulaid, President of the Republic of Estonia, Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Fareed Zakaria, host of Zakaria GPS on CNN, gave lectures and spoke to Ukrainian students in Kyiv. Previous speakers have included Tony Blair, David Cameron, Bill Clinton, Niall Fergusson, Michio Kaku, John Kerry, Shimon Peres, Condoleezza Rice, Jimmy Wales and Muhammad Yunus.
31 public lectures
with renowned politicians, thinkers and public figures
20 000 students
participated in public lectures
