Victor Pinchuk
(*1960) Ukraine
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Entrepreneur in the investment finance business and steel industry, owner of several TV stations, former member of the Ukrainian parliament and prominent philanthropist; graduated from the Metallurgy College in 1983. In 2006, he opened the greatest centre of modern art in Eastern Europe –Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev. It supports fine art, the Ukrainian Chamber Orchestra, film industry or projects fighting for human rights. He established the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in the same year. It is considered to be the biggest philanthropist organization in Ukraine. He established and also owns many companies producing steel. A substantial amount of their profit is used to finance the Global fight against AIDS. Mr Pinchuk is founder of the Kiev School of Economics. In the list made by the TIME Magazine, he became the first Ukrainian state official to be ranked among the 100 most influential people in the world. In this list Mr Pinchuk became 7th in the Thinkers Category. Giants such as Steve Jobs, founder of the Apple Company, Sonia Sotomayer, Judge of the US Supreme Court, or the renowned architect Zaha Hadid can be also found in the same category. Since 2008, the British Review Art Magazine has ranked him among
the one hundred most influential people in art.
