Name: Yuliya Tychkivska
Age: 27
Education: National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy
Profession: economist, vice president for management education at Kyiv School of Economics
Did you know? Tychkivska has four sisters and four brothers. She also was an active Plast member, a non-political scout organization in Ukraine.
Yuliya Tychkivska, Kyiv School’s of Economics vice president, jokes that she doesn’t have time for anything.
However, Tychkivska, 27, managed to launch several new programs at one of Ukraine’s top business schools and co-founded Bendukidze Free Market Center, a Ukrainian think tank named after Georgian philanthropist Kakha Bendukidze that aims to create “open and transparent society” based on individual and corporate liberty.
Now Tychkivska devotes lots of time to her “most important project” – her newborn son, but doesn’t forget her long-time passion – running.
“There’s no secret,” she says, adding that everything she does brings her joy, because she knows why they’re doing it for.
In 2015, the Kyiv School of Economics teamed up with the Finance Ministry and launched the Leadership in Public Finance project, educational program for civil servants that want to increase expertise in the management of public finances.
“I’m glad that we not only shared the knowledge with the participants, but created a community of experts that landed in different spheres and they keep in touch with each other and coordinate,” Tychkivska explains.
In January, Kyiv School of Economics launched a 24-day Knights of Honor program. It aimed to boost management skills and educate police officers who underwent the vetting launched in November 2015. The program educated police officers on how to ensure proper work of the central and local units of Ukraine’s National Police. They selected 12 people out of 2,000 police officers who studied leadership and management courses, personal development and effectiveness of law enforcement. Tychkivska says they plan to run this program again.
It was a “touching program,” she says, adding that some of the graduates reached out to her thanking for experience or asking for her advice.
Her career started with the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy where she studied economics. During her freshman year, she became involved in AISEC, an international non-governmental organization that provides young people with cross-cultural global internship and volunteer exchange experiences around the world.
Tychkivska’s always open to new opportunities. During the EuroMaidan Revolution that toppled ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, she founded an Open University of Maidan that offered daily free lectures on politics, economics and civic education. Later she headed an advisory group at the Economy Ministry.
Her recipe to unwind in difficult situations is running. “It cleans your head,” Tychkivska explains, adding that her first five kilometer run after giving birth felt “incredible.”
