Olena Pinchuk

Olena Kuchma Pinchuk^{[citation needed]} (Ukrainian: Олена Леонідівна Пінчук, romanized: Olena Leonidivna Pinchuk; born 3 December 1970; often written in Russian: Елена Пинчук, romanized: Yelena 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.

Olena Pinchuk
Олена Пінчук
Born	Olena Leonidivna Kuchma (1970-12-03) 3 December 1970 (age 54) Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Other names	Elena Pinchuk Yelena Pinchuk
Alma mater	Dnipropetrovsk National University
Organization(s)	ANTIAIDS Foundation UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention
Spouses	Igor Franchuk ​ (div. 1997)​ Victor Pinchuk ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	3
Parents	Leonid Kuchma (father) Lyudmyla Kuchma (mother)
Website	www.antiaids.org/eng.html/

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

• November 2007 - ranked the 17th among 100 most influential Ukrainian women, according to Ukrainian magazine Focus^[9]
• December 2012 - 3rd place at the same rating ^[11]