Fireside Chat with Kateryna Yushchenko, First Lady of Ukraine (2005-2010)
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Join the Europeanist Society, the Ukrainian Society and Lincoln College for a fireside chat with Kateryna Yushchenko, moderated Dr Jody Laporte. The event will feature a moderated discussion on Yushchenko´s experiences serving as First Lady of Ukraine, legacies of the Orange Revolution and contemporary efforts to support and plan the reconstruction of Ukraine.

Kateryna Yushchenko served as First Lady from 2005-2010. Yushchenko was born in the United States to Ukrainian immigrants who had been taken out of Ukraine as slave laborers during WWII. After receiving a Bachelors in International Economics at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Kateryna served in various positions in The White House, Departments of State and Treasury and the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. She moved to Ukraine in 1991. She founded and worked at the US-Ukraine Foundation, then she was the Country Director for KPMG Barents Group, which provided technical advice in banking, fiscal and monetary reform to the Ukrainian government. As First Lady, she concentrated on projects to promote grassroots civic involvement in improving health, education and the arts. She taught Corporate Social Responsibility at the Ukrainian Banking University from 2014 to 2018. She now works diligently to increase global support for Ukraine and its reconstruction.

Dr Jody La Porte is the Gonticas Fellow in Politics and International Relations at Lincoln College and Associate Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government. Her research focuses on the dynamics of politics and policymaking in non-democratic regimes, with a regional focus on post-Soviet Eurasia.
Date: 15 May 2025, 18:00
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Langford Room
Speaker: Kateryna Yushchenko (First Lady of Ukraine (2005-2010))
Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organiser: Severin Dauer (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: severin.dauer@politics.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr. Judy La Porte (University of Oxford)
Part of: Europeanist Society Oxford
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://forms.office.com/e/Lx9K69vfKc
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Severin Dauer