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Paul M. Grod ( *Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian entrepreneur and a leading activist of the Ukrainian-Canadian community. He is President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), which represents the interests of 1.5 million Ukrainians in Canada. He is also President & CEO of Rodan Energy, a leading North American smart grid company.〔(website ) of Rodan Energy Solution: details about the company.〕 He holds Bachelor of Political Science, Bachelor of Laws, and Master of Business Administration degrees. He is married and has four children. ==Career== He was a corporate and investment banker with CIBC World Markets and a lawyer with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP practicing corporate finance and M&A law. He has been always engaged in affairs of the Ukrainian Canadian community and promoting democracy in Ukraine, the country of his ancestors. In 2001 he became Vice President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, 2007 he followed Orysia Sushko as President of the UCC. In 2010〔(At the XXIII Congress of Ukrainian Canadians ) on November 9, 2010 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Grod has been reelected as President of the UCC for three years.〕 and 2013〔(Report ) about UCC XXIV Triennial Congress on November 8-10, 2013 in Toronto.〕 Grod has been reelected for a third term he has been reelected in that influential position. Since 2007 Grod is the National President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress which coordinates and represents the interests of one of Canada’s largest ethnocultural communities (1.25 million). He is also Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress. He has led several international election observation missions in Ukraine. He has visited Ukraine several times and met with leading Ukrainian politicians as President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Yuliya Tymoshenko. He also accompanied Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s and Foreign Minister John Baird`s delegations to Ukraine.〔(President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met President of the Ukrainian World Congress Eugene Czolij and President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Paul Grod ), 11 June 2014.〕 During his tenure as UCC President, he has successfully ensured Ukraine becoming a top foreign policy priority for Canada. He negotiated the recognition of Canada’s first national internment operations along with Lubomyr Luciuk and Andrew Hladyshevsky and establishment of a $10 Million endowment by the Government of Canada. He also ensured that Canada recognized the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul M. Grod」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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