1. Valeriia Oleksiivna Gontareva, spelled as Valeria Hontareva and Valeria Gontareva, is a prominent Ukrainian investment banker and millionaire.
12 Facts About Valeria Hontareva
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Valeria Hontareva served as Governor or Chairwoman of the National Bank of Ukraine from 19th of June 2014 until she submitted her resignation and left the bank on 11 May 2017.
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Valeria Hontareva graduated in 1987 from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and in 1997 from Kyiv National Economic University with a master's degree in Economics.
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In 1993 Valeria Hontareva started her career in the financial sector and she held top positions in the Kyiv branches of ING Bank and Societe Generale.
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Valeria Hontareva officially sold her stakes in the company before becoming governor of the NBU.
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On 19 June 2014 Valeria Hontareva replaced Stepan Kubiv as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.
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International financial institutions representatives state that the biggest reform achievement in Ukraine under Valeria Hontareva's rule has been the clean-up of the banking system with the grand finale of the nationalization of Privatbank.
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Valeria Hontareva had reduced the size of the central bank bureaucracy from 12,000 to 5,000.
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Valeria Hontareva has let the country's currency, the hryvnia, float, which stabilized the economy.
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Valeria Hontareva has a good reputation among professionals as the Ukrainian central bank for the first time started to act independently from the interests of oligarchs and politicians.
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Valeria Hontareva fulfilled modern monetary policy similar to the policy of the European Central Bank or the United States' Federal Reserve System moving to targeting inflation instead of targeting exchange rates.
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On 1 October 2018 Valeria Hontareva became a member of the Institute of Global Affairs, an initiative of the London School of Economics.