17 Facts About Natalie Jaresko

Natalie Jaresko was born on 24 April 1965 in Elmhurst, Illinois, the daughter of Mary, nee Budziak, and John Natalie Jaresko, both Ukrainian immigrants to the United States.

Natalie Jaresko was raised with two siblings, Katherine and John, in Wood Dale, Illinois.

Natalie Jaresko received a master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 1989.

Natalie Jaresko lived in Ukraine from 1992 to 2000, and returned in 2004.

Natalie Jaresko received Ukrainian citizenship on 2 December 2014, the day of her appointment as Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Natalie Jaresko has been a governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Natalie Jaresko held several key positions in the private business sector.

When Natalie Jaresko left Horizon Capital in December 2014, it had about $600 million of Ukrainian investments under management.

Between 2005 and 2010 Natalie Jaresko was a member of President Viktor Yushchenko's Foreign Investors Advisory Council and the advisory board of the Ukrainian Center for Promotion of Foreign Investment under the auspices of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Natalie Jaresko said that any company that continued to do business with the Russia was "indirectly financing the war".

Nine months after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Natalie Jaresko was approached by headhunters for the new Ukrainian government, and within days offered the post of minister of finance.

Ukraine Today and the Financial Times reported speculation that Natalie Jaresko could become Ukraine's new prime minister, which was suggested by former United States Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

The Ukrainian Weekly reported that Natalie Jaresko had started forming a provisional technocratic Cabinet of Ministers the previous month.

Natalie Jaresko was rejected as a prime ministerial candidate by the governing coalition.

In May 2016, Natalie Jaresko became chair of the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute unit in Kyiv, a US headquartered educational and policy studies NGO.

On 20 March 2017, Natalie Jaresko became the executive director of the Financial Oversight Board of Puerto Rico, as part of the PROMESA bill.

Natalie Jaresko's chairmanship was accompanied by multiple protests against the FOMBPR in Puerto Rico, the largest being a protest of 100,000 people in San Juan in the summer of 2019, before announcing her resignation in February 2022 effective on 1 April 2022.