Speakers

• THOMAS ACHELIS, Germany
• THIERRY JEAN CIPIERE, Switzerland
• KRISTIANS ROZENVALDS, Latvia
• DENIS BOHUSH, Ukraine
• ANDREY ROTOVSKY, Ukraine
• VALENTINE KOROL'KO, Ukraine
• KOSTYANTYN GRIDIN, Ukraine
• VAHTANG KIPIANI, Ukraine
• PAVLO TSYRUL, Ukraine
• VOLODYMYR DUHNENKO, Ukraine
• VOLODYMYR LUPATSY, Ukraine
• OLEKSANDR PALIY, Ukraine
• VITALIY KOVALENKO, Ukraine

• Olena Derevyanko, Ukraine

• ANDREY NAIDEK, Ukraine

• IEVGENIIA PANKRATIEVA, Ukraine

THOMAS ACHELIS, Germany

Past-President CERP 1995-1998, 2000-2005

PR consultant and specialised journalist, former editor in chief of several trade magazines
Member of the public relations committee of the German Road Safety Council
1988 - 1994 board member Deutsche Public-Relations-Gesellschaft, (DPRG) the German professional association of PR practitioners
1995 - 1998 and since 2000 president of the European Public Relations Confederation CERP (Confederation Europeenne des Relations Publiques), that represents about 22.000 PR experts in 23 countries of Europe
Council Member IPRA (International Public Relations Association)
Director IQPR, The International Institute for Quality in Public Relations, a common foundation of the three international PR organisations IPRA, CERP and ICCO
Member of the board of DAPR (German Academy of Public Relations) and president of the European Academy of Public Relations (EAPR), a subsidiary of DAPR
Chairman of the Forum for International Communications, Bucharest
Member The Institute of Public Relations (IPR), UK, honorary member of the Romanian (ARP) and the Russian (PACO) PR association
President ACHELIS & PARTNER GMBH PUBLIC RELATIONS
http://www.achelis.com/

“Models of investments into Ukraine and crisis management of investments”

“Motivation, investment technologies and PR”

“Technologies of country image promotion”

KRISTIANS ROZENVALDS, Latvia

PR-consultant, owner of companies: “CorpMedia”, “Kristians Rozenvalds”

Director of Public relation and advertisement program in Latvian College of business administration.

Owner of “CorpMedia” – publish lot of journals and newspapers for different organization and industries.

Owner of PR consultancy firm “Kristians Rozenvalds”, serve ministries, municipalities, business organizations in Baltic states.

One of the most experienced Baltic public relation specialist. In area of PR since 1989, when was PR assistant for Latvian Popular front, was also first press secretary in Latvian embassy in Moscow (1990), and chief of Baltic information bureau in Moscow (1996).

1994 established oldest PR agency in Latvia “RKT Publicitāte”, sold for Austrian “Hauska & Partners” in October of 2006.

2000 established Media monitoring service “Media Intelligence”, sold for BNS October 2007

Vice-president Ukrainian PR-League, Council Member of IPRA, Director General of “Bohush Communications” Agency , Leader of organize committee “PR-Days in Ukraine”

ANDREY ROTOVSKY, Ukraine

President of Ukrainian PR-League, Head of Kiev School of PR-technologies.

President of the Ukrainian League of Public Relations (2003).
www.pr-liga.org.ua
Director of the Public Relations Centre “R.A.P.I.D.” (from 1992).
Founder (1997) of the Kiev school of PR-technologies. http://prschool.kiev.ua
Organizer of the first International Festival of PR technologies (from 2002).
Rector of the National Certificate Institute of Public Relations (2006).
Vice-president of the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce dealing with social partnership.
Candidate of philosophical sciences, assistant professor.
Author of 4 monographs about communication, including the book “System PR”.
Specialization of the consultant – development and realization of large scale and nonstandard PR-programs dealing with promotion of corporations, brands, ideas, social programs, crisis PR.

The Head of Department of Theory and Method of Public Relations of NaUKMA, President ofthe company MAINSRTEAM Communication & Consulting

Korol'ko Valentine, Doctor of philosophy, professor, the Head of Department of Theory and Method of Public Relations of NaUKMA, President of the company MAINSRTEAM Communication & Consulting, President of High School of Public Relations of association ''Znannya'' of Ukraine, leading research worker of Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, the Head of the Sector of Institute of political researches.
Professional activity:
Member of the specialized Council on defending the thesis for a Doctor’s degree in sociological sciences at the Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine.
Member of the specialized Council on defending the thesis for a Doctor’s degree in sociological sciences at the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.
Member of Scientific Council of NaUKMA.
Member of Scientific Council of Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine.
Member of the Ukrainian Academy for Political Sciences.
Vice-president of the Ukrainian League for Public Relations.
Scholar of UNESCO: Harvard, Columbian, Michigan Universities (the USA); Sasek University (England) (1976–1977).
Basic subject of scientific researches:
Development of the system of public relations as a factor of creating the civil society. Power and public: problems of theory and practice in public relations (in a collaboration with Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine).

KOSTYANTYN GRIDIN, Ukraine

Partner CFC Consulting

Kostyantyn joined the CFC Consulting Company in 2003.

His primary responsibilities within the company include operational management and control, financial management, as well as strategy development and the supervision of projects in key areas of the company’s portfolio. Kostyantyn is also actively involved in the spheres of strategic communications, corporate positioning and reputation management.

Kostyantyn is a graduate of the Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry program at Iacocca Institute, Lehigh University (USA). He also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in International Economic Relations from the Institute of International Relations, Kyiv, Ukraine. Kostyantyn was a grant recipient of an exchange program in Cairo University, Egypt. On December 17, 2007 he was elected the Chairman of EBA PR Committee.

As a fluent speaker of Arabic language Kostyantyn is in charge of the projects that require close cooperation with the countries of the Arab Gulf and Middle East.

 «Positioning of Ukraine»

VAHTANG KIPIANI, Ukraine

Honored journalist of Ukraine

Ukrainian journalist, editor, honored journalist of Ukraine (August, 2005)

The Winner of Competition on the best publication in a press about the Ukrainian human rights movement in the USSR (Charity fund of memory of Oleksa Tihiy, May, 2001), Winner of Competition of publicistic articles by the name of Vyacheslav Chernovol (Nikolaev, December, 2002), Winner of the Second All Ukrainian journalistic competition "Media about Media-2004" (Center of media reforms, with assistance of Great Britain government, March, 2005) and Awards of Alexander Krivenko "For a step in journalism" (Kapitula “Postupy", Lviv, May, 2007) .

July 2007 - May 2008 - the chief-editor of the project "The Greatest Ukrainians", TV channel "Inter"

June 2006 - July 2007 - the editor-in-chief of magazine "Focus"

October 2005 - May 2006 – the commissioning editor of the program "One week", TV channel K1.

Summer 2002 - September 2005 — the editor-in-chief and the leader of the program "Podviyniy Dokaz", TV channel "1+1"

November 2001 - September, 2004 — the commissioning editor of TSN, TV channel "1+1"

Education and specialty:

1989-1994 historical faculty of the Nikolaev state pedagogical Institute "Teacher of history and law knowledge”

1993-1995 teacher in Ukrainian pedagogical gymnasia № 5 in Nikolaev

Political activity:

1990-1992 - member of political party “NRU”

1990-1996 - member of political party “URP”

2005-2007 - member of political party "PORA"

“Euro-2012, tourism, image of Ukraine - three components of the consolidated concept of development of Ukraine!”

PAVLO TSYRUL, Ukraine

The Head of non-governmental organization "Public Control of "EURO - 2012"  

Tsyrul Pavel Ivanovich, born in 1974, has two higher educations, he has finished - Kiev state trade and economic university and Kiev state university of T. Shevchenko (legal adviser).

He heads the non-governmental organization "Public control of "EURO-2012"

Professional work:

1997 – 2000 – deputy director of Kiev branch of Simferopol joint-stock bank "AKSI-BANK".

2002-2004 – acting general director of JSC" Yalta-INTOURIST", one of the largest hotel complexes in Ukraine with staff of 1000 persons.

Since 2005 he is the head of board of public organization «Fund of business protection»

In December 2007 he was elected as the head of Council of All Ukrainian federation of employers of Ukraine in tourism sphere. 

“Voluntary rating in Ukraine: principles, technology and prospects” 

VOLODYMYR LUPATSY, Ukraine

Centre for Social Research "Sofia", Executive director

• Evaluation of political risks - expertise and consultation;
• Research in the fields of internal policy and foreign affairs;
• Country branding. The Nation State and European Identity;
• Project-management in mass-media sphere (Internet-magazine etc.);
• Cooperation with non-government organizations.

OLEKSANDR PALIY, Ukraine

Diplomatic Academy of MFA of Ukraine

Foreign Policy Research Institute, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, leading expert. 

Ph. D. in Political Science (candidate’s degree).

Specialization: Political Science, History

Author of 2 books (Why Ukraine Needs NATO?, 2006, 2 editions), (Key to The History of Ukraine, 2005) and more than 700 articles, mostly on Ukrainian security problems, history, foreign affairs and domestic policy

Editor of 5 collective papers от Ukraine-NATO and Ukraine-EU relationships, Freedom of Speech in Ukraine.  

“Investment attraction as a communication product”

VITALIY KOVALENKO, Ukraine

The head of analytical projects CG "New conceprtion"

The head of analytical projects of Communication Group “New Conception” (www.nc.ua).

Elaboration of communication programs for the companies of group "Smart-holding" and other large industrial actives, carrying out of anti-crisis projects in various fields.

Participation in the program "Investment attraction rating of regions".

“Particularities of PR-support of investment projects of various types within the limits of Ukraine preparation to Euro-2012”

Olena Derevyanko, Ukraine

Managing partner and creative director of PR-Service Agency, vice-president of the Ukrainian PR-League, PHD in Economics, lecturer in the International Institute of Business Education 

The unique combination of theoretic background and various practical experience:

- Excellent scientific career (laureate of the scholarship of Cabinet of Ministers for young scientists, dissertation on strategic management, PHD in Economics in her 25, lecturer with 10-year teaching experience),

- Experience in real business and managing consulting.

- Authority in the professional PR-society.

From 1998 – in PR-consulting and journalism.

From 2003 – the managing partner and creative director of PR-Service Agency, coordinates the realization of PR-programs of client companies on the conceptual and strategic levels.

At the beginning of 2007 – is elected as vice-president of the Ukrainian League of Public Relations, advisor in the questions on regional development, participant in the Commission on Science and Education.

The author of numerous printed Mass Media, co-author of several manuals for students in universities, teaches on the programs MBA in several business-schools, gives author trainings, constant speaker at branch professional conferences.

 “The tourist image of Ukraine:market analysis, regions preparedness, image forming issues»

ANDREY NAIDEK, Ukraine  

The head of "Dinay Tour" Company