Iryna Schaer-Tkachenko

Iryna Schaer-Tkachenko was born in Kyiv in 1964. She studied music at the Zhukovsky School and economics at the Ukrainian National Technological University Kyiv. In 1991 she defended her thesis and in 1995 became the associate professor at the Economy and Management Department of the above University. In 1995 she obtained the Scholarship at the University Purdu in the USA (international marketing, strategic management). In 1995, she married the Swiss Painter Hugo Schaer and up to 2005 lived and worked in Switzerland. She completed a post-graduate degree in economic information science at Lucerne High Economic School. Since 2000, she has arranged and carried out cultural tours into Ukraine. She has organised projects of cultural exchange between Ukraine and Switzerland, Germany and Italy. She has worked as the production manager of Hugo Sсhаer’s video art and film projects. In 2005, she became an execituve producer for filmOdessa. In 2006 she completed production courses at the Hollywood School in Ukraine in Kyiv. From 2005 to 2009 she worked as the culture manager for the Brandland Wine Culture Centre Schabo.