Kyiv – UDAR party leader and heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko will be among the speakers at the Kyiv Post/East Europe Foundation Conference on “Protecting Ukraine’s Food Supply: Quantity, Quality and Safety.” The conference will be held Wednesday, May 22 at the Fairmont Grand Hotel in Kyiv.
“Klitschko
will be an exceptional draw and help guarantee the success of the
conference,” said Kyiv Post CEO Michael Willard. “He joins an
amazing lineup of speakers from Brazil, Hungary, the Czech Republic
and Ukraine in discussing the theme: ‘Can Ukraine fulfill its
promise as the breadbasket of Europe?’”
Other
speakers joining the one-day conference include keynoter Czech
Republic Agriculture Minister Petr Bendl, Vice-Premier Kostyantyn
Gryschchenko (former ambassador to the U.S.), Agriculture Minister
Mykola Prysyazhnyuk, Health Minister Raisa Bogatyriova, First Deputy
Economic Development and Trade Minister Anatoliy Maksyuta, and FAO
Food Safety and Consumer Protection Officer Eleonora Dupouy.
The
Brazilian embassy has indicated an expert would be on hand to tell
about the “Brazilian Miracle” in agriculture, said Willard.
Other
highlights of the conference include four panel discussions involving
leading multi-national and Ukrainian business and health executives,
who will address issues of food safety, regulations in the food
industry, and export and marketing issues.
This
is the second Kyiv Post/EEF conference. The first, the “Tiger
Conference”, was held last November with the keynote address given
by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. A second “Tiger
Conference” will be held in November.
For
tickets and information, contact Kateryna Kalendruz at
[email protected].
For
media accreditation and attendance, please contact Katya Komarova,
Willard, at [email protected]
