The Washington Group

is pleased to invite you to its annual

  TWG Leadership Conference – 2011

--- Ukraine’s Current Reality and Prospects ---
--- Ukrainian-American Community Needs and Directions ---

Saturday, February 19, 2011  --  9:00 AM to  3:30 PM

L'Enfant Plaza Hotel (www.lenfantplazahotel.com)
480 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington, DC 20024
  
The Conference will consist of interactive panel discussions on today’s key Ukraine-related issues in Ukraine itself (morning session) and in the United States (afternoon session).  The latter will feature issues and tasks facing existing, and possibly new, Ukrainian-American organizations, as well as their broadening relationships with governmental  and NGO supporters representing a wide range of professions and activities.  The Conference will feature presentations by the following experts from Washington, DC and beyond:

Ambassador Oleksandr Motsyk, Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, DC
Ambassador William Green Miller, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ambassador Steven Pifer ,  Brookings Institution
Judge Bohdan Futey, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Lawrence Silverman, U.S. Department of State
Orest Deychakiwsky, U.S. Helsinki Commission
Nadia Diuk, National Endowment for Democracy
Morgan Williams, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council
James Greene, Effective Engagement Strategies
Nadia McConnell, U.S.- Ukraine Foundation
Michael Sawkiw, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America  – UNIS
Ihor Gawdiak,Ukrainian-American Coordinating Council
Myron Smorodsky, Ukrainian-American Bar Association
Oleh Wolowyna, Center for Demographic and Socio-Economic Research of Ukrainians in the US
Mykhajlo Datsenko, Ukraina Citizens International Association

Registration fee: $30.00, students $10.00, payable by check or cash at the door.  Space is limited. 

Please register as soon as possible to apidlusky1@verizon.net with cc to: MyBihuny@aol.com .  Please include name, affiliation, phone, email and an indication of full or student payment option. 

In this effort, we appreciate the cooperation of the Taras Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Studies of Greater Washington, DC (Ridna Shkola), see  www.ukieschool.org , which is hosting a Ukrainian Winter Ball in the same hotel on the same evening, see http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=gb64cddab&oeidk=.

 

TWG is very grateful for the continued support and cooperation of our co-sponsors:

•  U.S. - Ukraine Business Council (USUBC)
•  Ukrainian-American Bar Association (UABA)
•  Taras Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Studies of Greater Washington, DC (Ridna Shkola)

 

Thank you and please join us,

Andrew Bihun, President
The Washington Group
www.TheWashingtonGroup.org