This program was presented by John Hewko, the General Secretary of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation, to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
Hewko leads a staff of 800 at Rotary’s World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and seven international offices. Before joining Rotary in 2011, he was vice president of operations and compact development at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance in a new and innovative manner.
An attorney, Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie (B&M), specializing in international corporate transactions in emerging markets and resident in the firm’s Moscow, Kyiv and Prague offices. While working in Ukraine in the early 1990s, he assisted the working group that prepared the initial draft of the new Ukrainian post-Soviet constitution.
Hewko holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in modern history from Oxford University (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar), and a bachelor’s in government and Soviet studies from Hamilton College in New York. He is an emeritus trustee of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine.
Today, you will hear about Rotary as “the original social network,” as the General Secretary describes how our organization connects people of every ethnicity and culture to address the world’s toughest humanitarian challenges.
Members and guests, please welcome John Hewko!