My name is Vyacheslav and I am a 2nd year BSc Management student at LSE. I was born in Kyiv and grew up in Germany. My driving force has always been to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
Everything started with the immigration to Germany and my family's hop to start a new life giving me an opportunity to self-actualize in a new country that was fundamentaly dfferent from my home country Ukraine.
I went to school and reached the Abitur (Germany university entrance qualification) in June 2009 with the best possible grade average of 1.0. While at school I was simultaneously enrolled at the University of Munster and went to lectures and passed exams as a 'junior student'. These academics had a vast impact on my future professional plans and inspired me with a passion for Business and Economics which I could develop further at the London School of Economics. I am very grateful to Sir Stelios for granting me the possibility to take up the offered place at LSE and enrol in the BSc Management programme - a degree focused on essential managerial, strategic and organisational issues that international companies face in daily planning and runnin their operations.
In order to enhance my academic studies with practical experience, I have served internships in an advertising agency, in the banking sector and in the Corporate & Business Development of Europe's leading business-process-outsourcing service provider. Dealing with social entrepreneurship questions I have also worked for the World Economic Forum in Geneva and could amplify my knowledge acquired at university and get to know social innovators worldwide.
Guided by my determination to pursue new challenges and ventures I have also been involved in several multinational projects and social commitments. For example, I have tutored children with a migration background and assisted their integration. Besides, I worked with Amazon.com Inc. as junior editor of the book "Barack Obama: Inspire a Nation", creating a bi-lingual collection of President Obama's most electrifying speeches. Finally, I have founded and organized the LSE Strategy Consulting conference in 2010, which became Europe's largest student forum for financial, economic and strategic business issues.
In accord with the Stelios Foundation's pillar of entrepreneurship, it is very important for me personally to craft sustainable solutions to prevailing problems and create new innovative concepts out of the creative chaos. When I was younger I designed a whole fantasy world with distinct races, creatures and a complete storyline. Today, I am on the way to put my business ideas to feasible entrepreneurial models. I believe that Sir Stelios reasons in a similar manner and I wander how he arrived at this mind-set?
With this scholarship my journey to new achievements has just began and Sir Stelios might want to know where my next stops will be in the coming years. Admittedly, I cannot give a clear answer to this, but all I know is that I will strive and seek and find and never yield.
