The culmination of the IV International Corporate Secretaries Forum was a ceremony of awarding the winners of the «Corporate Secretary of the Year – 2016» competition for personal professional achievements in corporate governance in Ukraine.The event was held on June 16, 2017.

Although in Ukraine the profession of a corporate secretary is still insufficiently regulated by the norms of national legislation, the requirements for it are formed at the level of world practices and advanced Ukrainian experience.

The winner of the Competition was Alena Ageenko, head of the corporate management department of JSC «Shipping Company Ukrrichflot».

Laureates of the contest were Lyudmila Mikhailova, corporate secretary of JSC RETAIL GROUP, and Anastasia Andreeva, manager of DTEK’s Corporate Governance Department.

The nomination «Dedication to the Profession» was given to Irina Varetsa, Deputy Head of the Corporate Rights Department at Ukrtransgaz, and Roman Kuzyuk, Director of the Corporate Management Department at Nova Poshta LLC, received the nomination «Promotion of the Profession». The nomination «Aspiration for Self-Development» was presented to Oksana Sivashenko, Deputy Head of the Department – Head of the Corporate Relationships Department of the Property and Corporate Relations Department of Ukrtransgaz.

Annual competition «Corporate Secretary of the Year» is a public award, which is awarded to the winners for personal professional achievements in the field of Corporate Governance. The objective of the competition is to introduce high standards and best practices of Corporate Governance in Ukrainian companies; increase the status of the profession of the Corporate Secretary; assessment and recognition of the personal contribution of the Corporate Secretary to the development of Corporate Governance of his company; raising standards of professional ethics for corporate secretaries; experience exchange; informing the professional society about the best specialists of the industry and public recognition of their achievements. The main principles for determining winners are objectivity and complexity in assessing the professional and social activities of participants.