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Join us on October 3rd, 2024, Day 953 of Russia's brutal assault on the sovereign country of Ukraine as Ambassador Yuliya Kovaliv takes us behind the scenes of this high-stakes struggle for freedom, democracy and human rights.
Moderator: Pauline Couture
Date: October 3, 2024
Time: 5:30-6:30PM ET
Format: Virtual (Zoom)
Dernière heure : exclusivité IWF ! Rencontre avec Mme Yuliya Kovaliv, ambassadrice d'Ukraine au Canada
Rejoignez-nous le 3 octobre 2024, 953e jour depuis l'Invasion brutale russe de l'Ukraine—une lutte aux enjeux graves pour la liberté, la démocratie et les droits de la personne.
Animatrice : Pauline Couture
le 3 octobre 2024
17h30-18h30 heure de l'est
Yuliya Kovaliv was appointed Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada and arrived to Ottawa on March 29, 2022.
Yuliya Kovaliv has almost ten years of experience in executive positions in public administration and Ukraine's investment promotion.
Prior to joining the Embassy Ambassador Kovaliv held the position of the Deputy Head of Office of the President of Ukraine in charge of economic policy development and IFIs coordination. She also served as the Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of National State-Owned oil&gas company "Naftogaz of Ukraine" (2019-2021), the Deputy Secretary of the National Investment Council of Ukraine under the President Ukraine and the Member of the National Reform Council. In 2017- 2019 Ambassador Kovaliv served as the Head of the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine under the President of Ukraine, advisory platform, which included global business leaders and IFIs, where she was in charge of investment promotion, policy dialog and FDI attraction.
In 2015 – 2016 Ambassador Kovaliv served as the First Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade overseeing reforms of privatisation, corporate governance of state-owned enterprises, investment policy, liberalization of the energy sector and IP. In 2016-217 she served as a Chairwomen of a newly-launched Supervisory Board of National State-Owned oil&gas company "Naftogaz of Ukraine", aimed to bring governance of the biggest state-owned company to the OECD standards, open access to global financial markets and strengthen Ukraine's energy security. In 2014-2015 Ambassador Kovaliv served as the Commissioner of the National Regulatory Commission for Energy and Utilities. Before joining the Regulator, Yuliya Kovaliv was in charge of public administration and energy sector reform coordination at the Coordination Center of Economic Reforms.
Prior to her career in public sector Ambassador Kovaliv spent 6 years working in the private sector.