The mission of the Kyiv School of Economics is to build an intellectual foundation for a successful Ukraine. During its existence, the Kyiv School of Economics has graduated more than 600 students, a quarter of whom received a Western PhD. Graduates of the school successfully work in the public (Dmytro Sologub, Yevhen Dubogryz), public (Veronika Movchan, Dmytro Yablonovsky) and private sector (Olena Bilan, Yegor Hryhorenko). Yuriy Gorodnichenko (KSE'2001 graduate) was a young economist № 1 in the world in 2007 according to the RePEc rating.