We are pleased to inform you about the progress in creating the KSE Alumni Association.

Based on the suggested goals, the following activities of the KSE Alumni Association are proposed:

• Updating to the alumni about alumni careers and about news from KSE, by means of a quarterly Alumni Newsletter
• Sending Regular information about career opportunities
• Creating an Alumni Association web page on the KSE web site and promoting the Alumni Association activities in social networks
• Organizing an Alumni Congress to improve networking of academic, policy and business alumni
• Organizing open lectures with speakers suggested by alumni
• Organizing regular alumni reunions, for example at the ASSA meetings
• Fundraising for an Alumni Scholarship, the Roy Gardner Award, and Peter Kennedy Memorial Fellowship
• Creation of an Alumni Endowment fund for the support of KSE

If you have any suggestions for the Alumni Association and its activities, please let us know. We are looking forward to hear your ideas and comments.

We are now preparing the first KSE Alumni Congress. The event will be held on Friday, May 25, 2012, in Kyiv. The goal of this Congress is to provide a forum in which the KSE alumni can exchange academic, policy, and business ideas.

In March-April 2012 the following career presentations will be held at KSE:

March 26: KPMG

March 28: Dragon Capital

March 30: McKinsey & Company

April 6: Bain & Company

April 20: BCG

You are welcome to participate!

Since 1998, KSE graduated 482 students. The majority of the KSE graduates works in the private sector (71%). Fourteen percent of KSE alumni works in academia and the remaining 15% are employed in the public sector.

KSE graduates occupy various positions: 11% of alumni occupy top managerial positions, like Vice President, CFO, and Director; 20% of graduates hold middle level managerial positions (Project Manager, Investment Manager, Portfolio Manager); 10% are heads of various departments and divisions. Thirty-six percent of KSE graduates works as analysts and consultants.

Major employers of the KSE graduates, are:
— Bain & Company – 7 graduates
— Concorde Capital – 5 graduates
— Deloitte – 9 graduates
— Dragon Capital – 3 graduates
— Ernst & Young – 9 graduates
— KPMG – 6 graduates
— PricewaterhouseCoopers – 8 graduates
— SimCorp – 6 graduates.

Also, 5 graduates are employed by the EBRD, 2 by the IMF, 6 by the IFC, and 3 by the World Bank.

We continue to encourage you to make your charitable contributions to KSE supporting the following initiatives:

— KSE Alumni Scholarship 2011-12

— Roy Gardner Award

— Peter Kennedy Memorial Scholarship

Your participation is very important, since it allows us to provide support to the most determined and commendable KSE students.

To support KSE please visit www.kse.org.ua/suppport.htm

Thank you very much for your generosity!

Svyatoslav, son of Olesia Verchenko, KSE’2000, and her husband Dmytro was born on February 18, 2012

Congratulations!!!

Please let us know about your recent family news – we would be happy to share them with the KSE community!