Olena Pinchuk
Олена Пінчук
Born
Olena Leonidivna Kuchma

(1970-12-03) 3 December 1970 (age 53)
Dnipropetrovsk. Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Other namesElena Pinchuk
Alma materDnipropetrovsk National University
Organization(s)ANTIAIDS Foundation
UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention
Spouses
Igor Franchuk
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(div. 1997)​
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(m. 2002)​
Children3
Parents
Websitewww.antiaids.org/eng.html/

Olena Kuchma Pinchuk (Ukrainian: Олена Леонідівна Пінчук, Olena Leonidivna Pinchuk; born 3 December 1970; often written in the Russian form Елена Пинчук, Elena Pinchuk) is the daughter of former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma. Together with her husband Viktor Pinchuk, she owns Ukraine's biggest media group, StarLightMedia and EastOne Group.

Early life and education

Olena Pinchuk was born on 3 December 1970 in Dnipropetrovsk (now known as Dnipro) to former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and Lyudmyla Kuchma. She attended physicotechnical and economics faculties at Dnipropetrovsk National University, and graduated in "Economics and Sociology".[1]

Career

From 1995 to 1996, she worked in department for economics at PrivatBank.[2] From 1997 until 2002, she was the marketing director of Kyivstar.[3]

Personal life

Elena Pinchuk was married to son of Anatoliy Franchuk, Igor Franchuk, who headed Naftogaz and was an MP in Ukraine up to mid-1997. She has a son with him, Roman, born on 3 April 1991.[4] who attends Brown University

In 2002, she married Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian businessman. They have two daughters, Katerina (born in 2003) and Veronika (2011).[5]

Olena Pinchuk founded the ANTIAIDS Foundation in 2003.[5] According to the Ukrainian magazine Focus, Olena Pinchuk was amongst the "top 10 most influential women" in Ukraine as of 2010.[6] In 2008, she bought a 10-bedroom villa in Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London for £80 million, at the time the most expensive home in the UK.[7]

Philanthropy

In 2003, she founded ANTIAIDS Foundation, aimed at fighting AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. It is the first and only Ukrainian charity fund that exists thanks to the private funds and donations.[1][8][9]

In 2010, she joined the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention.[10]

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b "Founder: Elena Pinchuk". ANTIAIDS Foundation. Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  2. ^ Заголовок. "Биография: Елена Франчук". Peoples.ru. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  3. ^ Amchuk, Leonid (12 January 2003). "Elena Franchuk goes social". ANTIAIDS Foundation. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  4. ^ Сергей Лещенко (2003-12-22). "Игорь Франчук: Я не обращаю внимания на характеристики "держатель наследства внука президента" | Украинская правда". Pravda. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  5. ^ a b "Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation : The daughter of Kuchma will be fighting against AIDS and her husband Pinchuk will provide his media support" Archived 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Antiaids.org (28 November 2003), Retrieved on 6 August 2011
  6. ^ 100 самых влиятельных женщин Украины. Рейтинг Фокуса Archived 21 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Focus.ua. Retrieved on 6 August 2011.
  7. ^ "Britain's top 20 most expensive homes - and their foreign buyers". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  8. ^ "The Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation launches competition to find top social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention". Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  9. ^ a b "Пинчук Елена Леонидовна- фото, биография// Пинчук Елена Леонидовна на ЛІГА.Досье". File.liga.net. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  10. ^ "Top world personalities join UNAIDS' High Level Commission to bring about a prevention revolution". UNAIDS. 2010-07-21. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  11. ^ "Фокус представил рейтинг самых влиятельных женщин Украины - Фокус.ua". Focus.ua. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2013-06-17.

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