In 1996 Shevchenko won a Muskie Scholarship of University of Minnesota Law School to study in America where he earned a Master's degree.

In 2006 Shevchenko Didkovskiy and Partners was acknowledged as the best employer in Ukraine among leading law and audit firms by the rating in "Korrespondent" magazine.

There he worked in the areas of international tax law, corporate law and international securities market regulation and also took part in legal processes for energy production sharing agreements on Sakhalin Island involving the most successful  companies such as ExxonMobil, British Petroleum (BP), Shell, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips.

Shevchenko Didkovskiy and Partners provided legal services to leading international companies, worked as an advisor in resonant investment projects which brought billions of dollars of investment to key sectors of the Ukrainian economy, generated thousands of new jobs and introduced cutting-edge global technologies to Ukraine.

In 2006-2007 Ihor Shevchenko was a member of the board of Kyivstar, the leading Ukrainian mobile company, representing the interests of shareholder Telenor (Norway).

Forum's activists as part of this project launched an annual celebration of the Ukrainian Flag Day with the participation of influential public figures.

As a result, an anti-tobacco law was adopted which banned tobacco advertising, smoking in public buildings and increased taxes on cigarettes.

[3] Some of the other Forum members include British Prime Minister David Cameron, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Canadian Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, head of Alibaba Group Jack Ma, co-founder of PayPal Max Levchin, lawyer Amal Clooney, Ivanka Trump, Chelsea Clinton, Jonathan Soros, Miguel Forbes, Michael Schumacher, Crown Prince of Norway Haakon, Princess Victoria of Sweden, Beatrice Trussardi, Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher, model Natalia Vodianova, footballer and Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Georgia Kakha Kaladze, presidents, ministers, congressmen and parliament members of many countries.

Recent members of the forum from Ukraine are Andriy Kolodyuk, Wladimir Klitschko, Hanna Hopko and Mustafa Nayyem.

Following invitations from Shevchenko, the first participants of the forum included MP Hanna Hopko, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Svitlana Kolomiyets, Director of the Department of International Projects at the Ministry of Economy and Trade Olena Tregub, co-founder of Petcube Yaroslav Azhnyuk and founder of internet-portal PLATFORMA Oleksandr Akimenko.

He then terminated all corrupt schemes and returned more than 20 oil and gas fields stolen by accomplices of the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to the state ownership.

He established the first public tenders for the posts of directors of reservations and national parks were held with online broadcasting of candidates' interviews.

Improved water control processes were implemented, thus eliminating a corruption scheme at the Ecological Inspectorate of the Black Sea which previously significantly reduced the competitiveness of Ukrainian seaports.

As a result of intense multi-round negotiations Shevchenko managed to extend expired contracts with Japanese companies worth $500 million for environmental projects under the Kyoto Protocol.

During Shevchenko's time as Minister, Ukraine improved from 95th to 44th place in the international Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which measures achievements in terms of the state of the environment and natural resources management.

In addition, Shevchenko refused Yatsenyuk's demand to appoint Hennadiy Rudenko as head of the state geological service as he had been an associate of President Yanukovych in the 2004 elections.

For the first time in the history of Ukraine, an acting Minister openly and publicly criticized the Cabinet's decision, as stated at a joint press conference with MPs Yegor Sobolev and Sergei Leshchenko and representatives of civil society.

Further Yatsenyuk, Lyashko and several MPs from the People's Front party accused Shevchenko of flying free of charge on the corporate jet of Oleksandr Onishchenko to Ukraine.

In turn, Shevchenko provided documentary evidence that he personally paid for his flight and that the plane belonged to a Dutch aviation company and not Onishchenko.

[4] In turn, Shevchenko accused Prime Minister Yatsenyuk of "political reprisals", "defending the interests of oligarchic clans" and corruption.

In March 2016, Solomenskiy district court of Kyiv declared the charges against the ex-Minister of Ecology Ihor Shevchenko to be unfounded and dismissed the case initiated by the Security Service of Ukraine.

At its session of March 22, the court ruled that Shevchenko had not violated Part 1, Article 28, paragraph 2 of the Law "On Prevention of Corruption", as he was accused by the SSU, declaring a conflict of interest in the actions of the ex-Minister was absent.

Shevchenko initiated 10 lawsuits against a variety of parties for false accusations, including against former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, MPs Serhiy Pashinsky, Tatiana Chornovil, Irina Suslova, Yuri Chizhmar, Andrei Pomazanov, Leonid Emets and the leader of the Radical Party, Oleh Lyashko, who claimed that the post of Minister for Shevchenko was bought for $5 million by Oleksandr Onishchenko.

In 2012 discussions were held about cooperation in parliamentary elections with Anatoliy Gritsenko (Civic Position) and Vitali Klitschko (UDAR) but the forces remained independent.

"I am convinced that if Ukrainians want to see their country become truly European and successful - in reality, not just by formal membership of the EU – the choice to bring decent people to power, as is the essence of meritocracy, is clear.

"[11] He submitted the documents to the Central Election Commission for registration as a presidential candidate on 31 December 2018 (which was also the first day of the electoral campaign).

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