Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko Visits Chicago Graduate School of Business

July 1, 2008, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko visited the Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Mrs. Kateryna met with the School’s high management, in part, Dean Scott Meadow, Deputy Deans Stacey R. Kole and Caroline Karr, faculty members of the University and School of Business. Also was present Michael Polsky, alumni of the Chicago Graduate School of Business and founder of some of its programs, in part, the Center for Entrepreneurship.

Kateryna Yushchenko told the audience about the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s educational programs and projects and a reunion of the School of Business alumni who are Ukrainians or live in Ukraine, organized by her initiative.

The participants of the meeting also discussed cooperation between the Chicago Graduate School of Business and Ukrainian universities, in part, the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute National Technical University. The parties also agreed on cooperation in organizing a presentation of the Chicago Graduate School of Business in Kyiv in the fall of 2008. The School CEOs and Mrs. Yushchenko also discussed the possibility to open a Chicago Graduate School of Business campus in Ukraine.

Mrs. Kateryna toured the auditoriums, library and Michael Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship. She also walked around the University of Chicago campus and visited the places of interest.

The University of Chicago was founded by John Rockefeller in 1890. It is widely recognized as one of the world’s best universities. The biographies of 79 Nobel Prize laureates are connected with the University of Chicago (second place in the world after Cambridge). Chicago-based physicists, economists, sociologists, and lawyers are the most recognized.

The Chicago Graduate School of Business is one of the world’s best educational institutions in economy and finance. Among its faculty members and alumni are six Nobel Prize laureates. In 1986, Kateryna Yushchenko received an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 2005 she received the Distinguished Public Service / Public Sector Alumni Award.

Kateryna Yushchenko is staying in Chicago on a brief working visit. Earlier she has visited the Chicago Lighthouse Agency for the people who are blind or visually impaired, taken part in a business lunch with wife of the Mayor of Chicago Maggie Daley, and met with Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley.  July 1, Mrs. Yushchenko visited Prof. Paul Sereno’s paleontology lab and the Comer’s Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago Medical Center.