Maryna Saprykina is a leading voice for women’s entrepreneurship and sustainability in Ukraine. She is the Founder of U&WE Hub: Women Rebuilding Ukraine movement, a nationwide platform supporting women entrepreneurs in rebuilding their lives, businesses, and communities. As CEO of CSR Ukraine, she has worked for 20 years to promote corporate responsibility and gender equality, developing national standards, coalitions, and educational programs.
Maryna is the national Initiator of the WE-Finance Code in Ukraine, working to embed gender-lens finance in Ukraine’s recovery through financial inclusion, public-private dialogue, and global cooperation. A global speaker and coach, she won the international Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest 2023 in Helsinki with her talk “Sustainability During the War”—becoming the first Ukrainian and first woman to win this title.