This fall, CENES and various UBC Departments will welcome Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada, to UBC’s Point Grey campus for a talk and Q&A.
The Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies (CENES) in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies, the Office of Global Engagement, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, the Department of History, the Program in International Relations, the Public Humanities Hub, and the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada will welcome Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada, to UBC’s Point Grey campus for a talk and Q&A.
Her Excellency Yuliya Kovaliv – Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada is pleased to share the latest developments of Ukraine’s resistance against Russia’s war on Ukrainian soil, as well as in the international arena: Canadian and global assistance to Ukraine; a Peace Formula as a path to a just peace in Europe; opportunities to improve and strengthen cooperation between Ukraine, Canada and the world during and after the war.
How to Attend
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Light refreshments will be served. Doors will open at 12pm.
Yuliya Kovaliv was appointed Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada and arrived in Ottawa on March 29, 2022. 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. Yuliya Kovaliv was born in Ivano-Frankivsk. She holds a Master of Economics from the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and a Master of Public Administration from the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.