The Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation invites to the Discussion Club «Open World» meeting with the Head of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski.
The theme of the meeting is «Lay the foundation for the future of Ukraine».
The Ambassador had the opportunity to observe the most dramatic pages of Ukrainian history, have communicated with Ukrainian politicians and civil society for a long time and was at the center of all processes related to the European integration of Ukraine. He is like no other European diplomats and experts can provide an external perspective to the processes inside Ukraine and tell how the Europeans see them.
If Jan Tombinski will talk about the past during the meeting, it will be only from the point of its influence on building of the future. During the meeting, we will discuss the future of our country. We will talk about Ukraine we would like to see, discuss what Ukrainians should do to lay the foundation for the building of modern, democratic and European state.
The meeting will take place on Friday, June 10th, at 15:00.
The venue is a creative space INVERIA (Kyiv, Volodymyrska str., 49a).
Participation is free.
Registration for the event is required at following link: http://goo.gl/forms/WobadtZglBfzbpcv2.
Media accreditation is obligatory till 12:00, June 10th. Contacts for accreditation [email protected], (044) 220 18 40.
Working language of the event is English.
For your information:
Jan Tombinski is a polish diplomat, the Head of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine from 2012.
He graduated the Jagiellonian University, where he took master's degree in Germanics (1984) and History (1985). In 1985-1987 he worked in the university library of Jagiellonian University, and later as a lecturer at the Institute of History of this University. In 1987-1989 he worked as a lecturer assistant and a senior lecturer at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University.
In 1989 he was a founder and a president of the Association of European integration in Krakow, and a member of the appeal committee of trade union «Solidarity» at the Jagiellonian University.
In 1990-1995 he held a number of positions (from the Second Secretary of the Embassy to the Adviser Plenipotentiary to the Minister) at the Polish Embassy in Prague. In 1995-1996 he was the Adviser Plenipotentiary to the Minister in Ljubljana, and in 1996-1998 he held the position of the Ambassador.
In 1996-1999 he was the Ambassador of Poland in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1998-2001 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, including the position of the Adviser of Foreign Minister Bronislaw Heremko, he took care of the issues of the foreign policy towards Europe. In 2001-2006 he was the Ambassador in France. In 2007-2012 he held the position of The Permanent Representative of Poland to the European Union. In 2012 he was appointed The Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine.
He is fluent in English, German, French, Slovenian and Czech, and now he is studying Ukrainian. Ambassador has a number of works on the modern history of Poland and Europe.
Discussion Club «Open World» is an educational project of the «Open Ukraine» Foundation for socially active young people. Its goal is to raise a new generation of responsible leaders. Every month the Foundation holds lectures with renowned experts, politicians and public figures, during which they discuss ways of effective solutions to social problems in Ukraine and in the world.
