Hawrylyshyn, Bohdan

Bohdan Dmytrovych Hawrylyshyn (Ukrainian: Богдан Дмитрович Гаврилишин; 19 October 1926 – 24 October 2016) was a Ukrainian, Canadian, and Swiss economist, thinker, benefactor, and advisor to governments and large companies worldwide. He was a full member of the Club of Rome, a long-time director of Switzerland's International Management Institute (now International Institute for Management Development), a founder of the European Management Forum in Davos (now World Economic Forum), a fellow and member of the Board of the World Academy of Art and Science. Hawrylyshyn also was a consultant of General Electric, IBM, Unilever, Philips and advisor to several countries. After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, he was an advisor to several Ukrainian prime ministers, and to most chairmen of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada. Hawrylyshyn was awarded five honorary doctorates, a gold medal from the President of the Italian Republic, and two medals from presidents of Ukraine. From 1988 he worked mainly in Ukraine, and created the International Management Institute which he chaired. He also chaired the International Centre for Political Studies, initiated the creation of a number of student organizations, acted as an advisor to the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, (and also advised) four successive chairmen of Parliament and three prime ministers. At the end of his life, Hawrylyshyn focused on youth organizations through the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Charitable Foundation. Hawrylyshyn was also an active member of the Lisovi Chorty fraternity within the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. From 2006 to 2008, Hawrylyshyn was the Headman of Plast. In 1980 his report to the Club of Rome was published: Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, (1980) Road Maps to the Future — Towards more effective societies, Elmsford, New York: Pergamon Press. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, (2016) Identity in a Globalized World, Old Lion Publishing House.