<p><img alt="" src="/images/Yuriy_Prykhodko(1).jpg" style="float:left; height:211px; width:200px" />Yuriy Prykhodko is Director of IKEA Ukraine.<br />Prior to this appointment, since 2016 Yuriy worked as a Managing Director, PBN Hill+Knowlton Strategies Ukraine.<br />Yuriy carries over 25 years of experience in government relations, commercial diplomacy, and business advocacy delivered to dozens of multinational companies pursuing opportunities in the NIS region. </p><p>Prior to joining PBN Hill+Knowlton Strategies in 2016, Yuriy worked as a Government and Public Affairs Advisor to ExxonMobil. Besides the Ukraine portfolio, Yuriy handled political and regional issues of relevance to the corporation, most notably the US-EU-Russia relations. From 1993 – 2012 Yuriy was part of US Embassy Kyiv working as a principal local advisor and analyst to the U.S. Department of Commerce in the formulation of the bilateral commercial strategy, planning and administering trade development programs. </p><p>Yuriy holds Executive MBA from the International Management Institute in Kyiv, and is a graduate from Kyiv State Linguistics University. Yuriy was awarded US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal being recognized a Foreign National Employee of the Year (2010).</p>