A graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a Master's in marketing and finance, Veronika Rastvortseva has spent more than 25 years in education management — student recruitment, international collaborations, and the operations that make ambitious programs actually run. Since 2022 she has been part of greenlight for girls, the international movement inspiring girls into science and technology — where she brought the Ukrainian community into g4g Day London for the first time, including forty students of the St Mary's Ukrainian School.
When the full-scale invasion scattered Ukraine's young golfers and their families across Europe, Rastvortseva — then a participant in The R&A's Women in Golf Leadership Programme — helped turn a leadership course into a lifeline. Project Ukraine, created by nine women of the programme, has helped displaced Ukrainian families with relocation and access to education, and brought the Ukrainian Golf Federation's junior players back together for residential development camps in the UK.
The work won golf's recognition twice over: the inaugural Women's Initiative award at the 2022 Women in Golf Awards, and the Confederation of Professional Golf's 2022 President's Award for Golf Development — which she accepted on the project's behalf.
“Words simply cannot express what this award means to me in this dark chapter of my country's history… We are still alive, and I'm absolutely certain we will overcome.”
Her three threads — education, events, and golf development — are exactly the ones the Summit's golf mission runs on: the tournaments, the Ukrainian Veterans Golf Team, and the conviction that sport rebuilds what war breaks.
