Bohdan Hawrylyshyn

He also chaired the International Centre for Political Studies, initiated the creation of a number of student organizations, acted as an advisor to the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, (and also advised) four successive chairmen of Parliament and three prime ministers.

In 1980 his report to the Club of Rome was published: Bohdan Hawrylysyn was born in Koropets village, Ternopil Oblast where he spent most of his childhood on his father's farm.

He was the author of two books; one of these “Road Maps to the Future - Towards More Effective Societies” won international recognition and has been published in nine languages.

In 1989, with Dr. Hawrylyshyn's active participation and organizational assistance, an international charity "Vidrodzhennya" fund was set up in Kyiv; the institution is financed by George Soros.

From the beginning of the fund activity to 1998, Hawrylyshyn was the head of the Supervisory Board of this public organization, the purpose of which is to develop the foundation of civil society in cultural, educational, scientific and social spheres.

In Ukraine, the fruitful activities of Dr. Hawrylyshyn are highly appreciated by a broad community of education, science and state officials.

The key program of the Foundation is called Young Generation Will Change Ukraine and is created in the form of an international study-trip.

According to it the selected groups of young people choose one of the effective European countries, i.e. Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland or Poland, study their experience, make a short study trip to the country in question, then select "components" for political, economic, social "architecture" for the future Ukraine and use that knowledge in their political or civil careers for transformation of Ukraine.

The results of the studies will be presented in mass media and at different events and also will be submitted to the legislative process including drafting and amending national laws.