Yalta European Strategy (YES) – is an international non-partisan network established in 2004 by Ukrainian businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk.
Its mission is to promote the development of a just, free and prosperous Ukraine and to support Ukraine’s reform process and eventual accession to the EU. YES brings together international leaders from politics, business and society to debate global and regional challenges and develop policy recommendations. Yalta European Strategy is governed by an international board: Mario David, Aleksander Kwasniewski (Chairman), Stephane Fouks, Victor Pinchuk, Alexander Rahr, Jean-Pierre Saltiel, Marek Siwiec and Havier Solana.
The YES Annual Meeting is the largest and most influential non government platform in Ukraine and the region. Among the speakers were, among others, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Alexey Kudrin, Shimon Peres, Gerhard Schroeder, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Larry Summers, Yulia Tymoshenko, James Wolfensohn, Viktor Yanukovych, Victor Yushchenko.
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Victor Pinchuk, 6th Yalta Annual Meeting, 2009
«To oppose the crisis there must be joined efforts and common acts on a global scale»
