Supervisory Board of the ICPS

On 8 December, the Supervisory Board of the International Centre for Policy Studies met in Kyiv. The meeting was facilitated by Alexander Kwasniewski, Chair of the ICPS Supervisory Board and a former President of Poland. At this meeting, ICPS management presented its view of the political and economic situation in Ukraine, the Centre’s strategic development plan and a financial forecast for the Centre’s activity for 2007.

Members of the Board present at this meeting included Chairman Emeritus Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, Kyiv City Council Deputy Vitaliy Klichko, National Deputy Ksenia Liapina, Chairman of the Board of the XXI Century Investment Company Lev Partskhaladze, Director of the Chief Administration for Economic Policy at the National Bank of Ukraine Ihor Shumylo, and Deputy Executive Director of the IMF in Ukraine Yuriy Yakusha.

As the higher governing body of ICPS, the Supervisory Board is in charge of making decisions regarding the ICPS strategy and of evaluating the Centre’s performance. The Supervisory Board currently includes 15 members: high-level Government officials, Verkhovna Rada Deputies, foreign experts, ambassadors, and representatives of business and academia in Ukraine and around the world.