OREANDA-NEWS. May 23, 2012. Andriy Bespyatov, Ph.D., CFA has been appointed President of CFA Ukraine, the leading national society of investment professionals and a member of the CFA Institute global network.

Currently Andriy Bespyatov, Ph.D., CFA occupies the position of Managing Director, Head of Research at Dragon Capital.

Andriy Bespyatov has over ten years’ experience in the Ukrainian securities market. Andriy joined Dragon Capital as an equity analyst in 2001. During his tenure at Dragon Capital, Andriy analyzed companies in the oil and gas, chemical, machine-building, and metals & mining sectors, and was responsible for macroeconomic research. He was promoted to the position of Head of Research in 2005 and currently manages the largest research department in Ukraine covering all publicly traded Ukrainian companies and bond issuers as well as economics and politics. Under Andriy’s supervision, Dragon Capital’s research team has remained in the Top 3 in all surveys on research in Ukraine, including Thomson Extel, Institutional Investor and Cbonds. He was named "Top Ukraine Analyst" and “Top Ukraine Analyst in the Oil & Gas Sector” in a Thomson Extel Survey in 2008.

Andriy holds a Master’s degree from the joint graduate program of the Donetsk National Technological University (Ukraine) and Dutch Hogeschool van Utrecht (the Netherlands). He has also completed a finance program at Arizona State University (USA). Andriy became a CFA charter holder in 2004, and a year later he earned a Ph.D. in International Economics from the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economy and International Relations.