Olena Kuchma Pinchuk ( uk, Олена Леонідівна Пінчук, Olena Leonidivna Pinchuk; born December 3, 1970; often written in the Russian form Елена Пинчук, Elena Pinchuk) is the daughter of Ukrainian second president

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corrup ...

, founder of

ANTIAIDS Foundation The Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation is the first and only charity foundation in Ukraine that is privately funded. The main aim of the Foundation is to control the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. History The foundation was established in Septe ...

, and Head of the Supervisory Board of the biggest Ukrainian media group,

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Biography

Olena Pinchuk was born on December 3, 1970 in

Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

(now known as Dnipro). She attended physicotechnical and economics faculties at

Dnipropetrovsk National University Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, uk, Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is an establishment of higher education in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. ...

, and graduated in "Economics and Sociology". Within 1995-1996, she worked in Department for economics at PrivatBank. From 1997 - 2002, she was the marketing director of

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. In 2003, she founded

, 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. The Foundation is widely known for the national media promotional campaigns and attracting Ukrainian and international celebrities to the problem. In 2010, she joined the

UNAIDS The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) (, ONUSIDA) is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The mission of UNAIDS is to lead, strengthen and support an e ...

High Level Commission on

HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ...

Prevention.

Honours

* November 2007 - ranked the 17th among 100 most influential Ukrainian women, according to Ukrainian magazine ''Focus'' * December 2012 - 3rd place at the same rating

Personal life

Pinchuk's father is the second

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. Her mother,

Lyudmyla Kuchma Lyudmyla Nikolaevna Kuchma ( uk, Людмила Миколаївна Кучма, Lyudmyla Mykolayivna Kuchma; née Talalayeva (Талалаєва); June 19, 1940 in Votkinsk) is the wife of second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and a former Fi ...

, is the Honorary President of the National Fund of Social Protection of Mothers and Children "Ukraine to Children". Elena Pinchuk was married to Igor Franchuk, an MP in the Ukraine up to mid-1997 and has a son with him (Roman, born on April 3, 1991). In 2002, she married

Viktor Pinchuk Victor Mykhailovych Pinchuk ( uk, Віктор Михайлович Пінчук, ''Viktor Mykhailovych Pinchuk''; born 14 December 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. As of January 2016, ''Forbes'' ranked him as 1,250th on the list o ...

, Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist. They have two daughters, Katerina (born in 2003) and Veronika (2011). In 2008, she bought a 10-bedroom villa in Upper

Phillimore Gardens Phillimore Gardens is a street in Kensington, West London, England. Phillimore Gardens runs roughly north to south from Duchess of Bedford's Walk to Kensington High Street. The houses on the west side all back on to Holland Park. History The r ...

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, London for £80 million - at the time the most expensive home in the UK.

References

External links

Official website of ANTIAIDS Foundation
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