NBU Governor from 7 October 2022.

The Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine provides overall leadership for the central bank and oversees the NBU units responsible for HR management, legal support, risk management, communications, consumer protection in financial services, security, state secret protection, and anti-corruption efforts.

Andriy Pyshnyy was honored with two prestigious international awards in the field of central banking for his outstanding achievements in 2023:

• Central Banker of the Year 2024 in the Global and Europe category by the esteemed British financial publication, The Banker

• Governor of the Year from Central Banking Awards 2024, an annual recognition presented by the British specialized magazine Central Banking.

Andriy Pyshnyy has been working in the financial sector for more than 16 years. In 2000, Andriy Pyshnyy embarked on his career in banking as the Head of Legal Support Department at Oschadbank OJSC. From 2003 to 2007, he held positions of a Management Board Member, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, and Acting Chairman of the Management Board of Oschadbank OJSC. From April 2007, Mr Pyshnyy continued to develop the Ukrainian financial sector as the First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at Ukreximbank OJSC, and later as a Member of the Supervisory Board of Ukreximbank OJSC and Oschadbank OJSC.

From March 2014 to November 2020, he served as the Chairman of the Management Board of Oschadbank JSC.

In 2012, Andriy Pyshnyy was elected a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the First Deputy Head of Parliamentary Committee on Rules of Procedure, Parliamentary Ethics, and Administration of Verkhovna Rada's Work. In 2009–2012, he held the position of the Director of Social Strategy Fund LLC.

From August 2007 to June 2009, Andriy Pyshnyy served as the Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Andriy Pyshnyy started his career in 1996 as an assistant teacher in the Department of Constitutional, Administrative, and Financial Law of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.

He graduated from Chernivtsi National University with a degree in law and from Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine with a degree in banking.

In 2008, Andriy Pyshnyy earned his PhD in Law from the Legislation Institute of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Kyiv).

Since July 2021, Sergiy Nikolaychuk has been working as a Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). In this role, he has oversight of monetary policy, statistics, and international relations. Sergiy used to work at the NBU from 2004 to September 2019. Starting his career as an economist, he was promoted to a Director of the Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis Department in 2015. Sergiy has contributed heavily in implementing inflation targeting in Ukraine and establishing research function at the NBU.

Then, in September 2019, Sergiy joined the Ministry of Economy as Deputy Minister where he was responsible for the analytical support of economic policy-making decisions, macroeconomic forecast and attracting investments.

In April 2020, Sergiy moved to Investment Capital Ukraine (ICU), where he worked as a head of macro research. Sergiy was responsible for analytical support of investment decisions, both on global and domestic capital markets.

Sergiy conducts research on monetary and macroeconomic issues. He is a visiting lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

In 2004, Sergiy received a MA in Economics from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the same university.

Born on 24 January 1969 in Gorzów Wielkopolski.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Magister Iuris) and of Collège d’Europe in Bruges (LLM). From 1994 to 2004 practised law and was admitted to the bar. In 2003 co-founded the Sobieski Institute (general policy think tank) and was its chairman from 2008 to 2011. Graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (Mid-Career MPA program).

From 2005 to 2007 he was the Deputy Minister of State Treasury, supervising companies of financial sector, chemicals, oil, shipbuilding engineering and minerals. Member of the Parliament (the Sejm) from 2011 to 2015 representing 38th district of Pila (Greater Poland), active in treasury and public finance committees. In 2010 appointed to the National Development Council at the office of President of Poland Lech Kaczyński.

On 6 October 2016, the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda appointed Paweł Szałamacha a member of the Management Board of Narodowy Bank Polski. On 12 October 2022 nominated for the second term.

Michał Brzoza-Brzezina is Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Economic Advisor at Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland). His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics and business cycle theory. He has previously worked at the European Central Bank and Austrian National Bank. His research papers were published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics and European Economic Review among others.

Jacek Suda is Economic Advisor at Narodowy Bank Polski and Assistant Professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

He earned his degree at Washington University in St. Louis and before joining the NBP he was an economist at Banque de France and adjunct professor at the Paris School of Economics. He also held a short-term visiting position at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Texas A&M University, and Aix-Marseille School of Economics.

In his research he studies the implications of non-rational expectations and learning for real and financial cycles, as well as the impact of monetary policy on labor market. His research was published in, among others, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Is the Senior Research Officer in the Economic and Financial Research Department. His research interests center on business cycle fluctuations, with a special focus on monetary theory and policy. Oleksiy contributed to topics including consumer price behaviour, real effects of monetary policy shocks, dynamics of markups and costs over the business cycle.

Oleksiy received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2004.

Is Advisor to the Governor at the National Bank of Moldova and Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. His experience includes a range of professional roles in managerial and executive positions at various seniority levels in finance, real estate, and central banking.

A native of Ukraine, is a professor at the Department of Economics, University of California — Berkeley. He received his BA and MA at EERC/National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and his PhD at the University of Michigan. A significant part of his research has been about monetary policy (effects, optimal design, inflation targeting), fiscal policy (countercyclical policy, government spending multipliers), taxation (tax evasion, inequality), economic growth (long-run determinants, globalization, innovation, financial frictions), and business cycles. Yuriy serves on many editorial boards, including the Journal of Monetary Economics and VoxUkraine (www.voxukraine.org). Yuriy is a prolific researcher. His work was published in leading economics journals (e.g., American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies) and was cited in policy discussions and media. Mr Gorodnichenko has received numerous awards for his research.

Is a Junior Researcher at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2022, with the Edgeworth prize for best doctoral thesis. Mishel’s research interests are in macroeconomics, with a particular focus on production networks, firm heterogeneity and goods market frictions for monetary and fiscal policies. Mishel has recently published two articles in the Journal of Monetary Economics, one of which has received the 2024 JME Best Paper Award. Other prizes include the Best Paper Prize at the 2022 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2020 European Economic Association Young Economist Award as well as the Poster Session Award at the 2018 ECB Sintra Forum on Central Banking. Mishel’s policy experience comes from prior positions as Chief Expert at the National Bank of Ukraine and David Walton Scholar at the Bank of England.

Aaron Mehrotra is a Principal Economist in the Emerging Markets section at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. He has also worked at the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific in Hong Kong SAR. Prior to joining the BIS in 2011, he was adviser in the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT). Aaron’s research areas of interest include monetary policy and economic policy in emerging market economies. He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Is Head of the Research Division, Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis Department, National Bank of Ukraine.

Oleksandr Faryna earned his Ph.D. in Finance at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where he is a Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics.

His research interests include macroeconomics, international finance, monetary policy, and forecasting. His research papers concern forecasting and nowcasting of economic indicators based on alternative data sources, the exchange rate pass-through, and the monetary policy of small open economies, with case studies on Ukraine and the specifics of economic activity in wartime and during post-war recovery.

Anton Grui has nine years of experience at the National Bank of Ukraine, where he is currently leading the modeling team. He specializes in macroeconomic modeling, forecasting, and monetary policy analysis, contributing to the Bank’s mandate of maintaining price stability.

Anton has also actively engaged in knowledge exchange through public lectures and non-academic publications, offering insights on pressing economic issues facing Ukraine. Anton is a Ph.D. candidate in economics and finance at Charles University in Czechia. His research focuses on the wartime monetary policy transmission mechanism. He holds a master of arts in economic analysis from the Kyiv School of Economics.

Anton Nakov is a Bulgarian macroeconomist specializing in central banking and monetary policy. At the European Central Bank, Nakov has been a Senior Economist in the Monetary Policy Research Division since 2013. Prior to joining the ECB, he worked as an Economist at the Bank of Spain and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the US. He completed his doctoral studies in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) in 2007.

Elina Ribakova has been a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since April 2023. She is also a nonresident fellow at Bruegel and a director of the International Affairs Program and vice president for foreign policy at the Kyiv School of Economics. Her research focuses on global markets, economic statecraft, and economic sovereignty. She has been a senior adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security (2020–23) and a research fellow at the London School of Economics (2015–17). Ribakova has over 25 years of experience with financial markets and research. She has held several senior level roles, including deputy chief economist at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, managing director and head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Research at Deutsche Bank in London, leadership positions at Amundi (Pioneer) Asset Management, and director and chief economist for Russia and the Commonwealth for Independent States (CIS) at Citigroup. Prior to that, Ribakova was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington (1999–2008) working on financial stability, macroeconomic policy design for commodity-exporting countries, and fiscal policy. Ribakova is a seasoned public speaker. She has participated in and led multiple panels with leading academics, policymakers, and C-level executives. She frequently collaborates with CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, and NPR. She is often quoted by and contributes op-eds to several global media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais, and several other media outlets. Ribakova holds a master of science degree in economics from the University of Warwick (1999), where she was awarded the Shiv Nath prize for outstanding academic performance, and a master of science degree in data science from the University of Virginia (May 2023).

Frank Smets is Adviser to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and a part-time professor of economics at Ghent University. Previously, he was Director General of the Directorate General Economics (2017-2022), Adviser to the President (2013-2017) and Head of Research (2008-2013) at the ECB. He is a research fellow of the CEPR. He has published extensively on monetary and macroeconomic topics in top academic journals. He was managing editor of the International Journal of Central Banking from 2008 till 2010. Before joining the ECB in 1998, he was a research economist at the Bank for International Settlements. He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University.

Łukasz Postek is an economic advisor in the Economic Analysis and Research Department in Narodowy Bank Polski. He obtained his PhD in economics from the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, where he works as an assistant professor. His main research interests include modeling nonlinearities and asymmetries, and default prediction models.

Nicolas Véron cofounded Bruegel in Brussels in 2002-05, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC in 2009, and is currently employed on similar terms by both organizations as a Senior Fellow. His research is primarily about financial systems and financial services policies, with a main geographical focus on Europe. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines, his earlier experience included senior positions in the French government and private sector in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is also an independent board member of the global derivatives trade repository arm of DTCC, a financial infrastructure company that operates on a non-profit basis. In September 2012, Bloomberg Markets included Véron in its yearly global “50 Most Influential” list with reference to his early advocacy of European banking union.

Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan is Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, College Park. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Currently, she is the co-editor of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and serves at the editorial board of American Economic Review. She also serves at the economic advisory panels of the NY Federal Reserve and the Bank of International Settlements. She was the Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank in 2008 and held a position as Lead Economist/Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank during 2010-2011. She was the Houblon-Norman Fellow of Bank of England and CFR International Affairs Fellow during 2017-2018. She served as the Senior Policy Advisor and Assistant Director at the International Monetary Fund during 2019-2020. She is the first Turkish social scientist who has received the Marie Curie IRG prize in 2008 for her research on European financial integration. Her research focuses on capital flows, macroeconomic fluctuations, and financial frictions, using big data on global firms and banks. Currently, she works on the impact of COVID pandemic on supply chain bottlenecks, business failures and inflation.

Yevhenii Skok is a macroeconomist with a specific interest in Monetary Economics and the design of macro-financial policy. He is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool Management School. Throughout the years, he has held positions as a research intern at the Deutsche Bundesbank and the National Bank of Slovakia. Additionally, he served as a Monetary Policy Chief Expert for the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Since 2009, he has worked in various roles at the NBU, primarily in the Department of Monetary Policy, accumulating a decade of central banking experience.

Dr. Jacob Funk Kirkegaard – Short Bio Jacob Funk Kirkegaard has been nonresident senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and resident senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in the GMF's Brussels office since September 2020. Jacob further in the Fall of 2022 joined 22V, a private financial market research firm in New York, as the Head of European Research. He has been associated with the PIIE since 2002 and was resident senior fellow from 2013. Before joining the PIIE, he worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is the author, coauthor or coeditor of Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity (2012), US Pension Reform: Lessons from Other Countries (2009), The Accelerating Decline in America’s High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy (2007) and Transforming the European Economy (2004). He is a graduate of the Danish Army's Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant; the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; the Columbia University in New York; and received his PhD in political economy from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. Jacob frequently appears in global media and his current research focuses on European economies and reform, the transatlantic economic and political relationship, EU institutional reforms, efficient decarbonization strategies, China long-term economic growth prospects, immigration, foreign direct investment trends and estimations, pension systems, demographics, offshoring, and the productivity impact of information technology.

Marek Jarociński is a Team Lead Economist in the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank. His research in macroeconomics and econometrics has been published among others in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, The Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of International Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

In 2004, Volodymyr Lepushynskyi joined the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on the position of economist responsible for forecasting money market performance. From 2008 to 2019, worked as the Head of Unit, Deputy Head of Division, Head of the Division for Monetary Policy Strategy, Deputy Director of Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis Department. In December 2019, was appointed as a Director of Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis Department. Has contributed to implementing inflation targeting regime in Ukraine, elaborating strategic documents on monetary policy and developing a rules-based monetary policy framework.

Graduated from Kyiv National Economic University with MA degree (with honors) in Finance (2004). Holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Ukrainian Academy of Banking. Has published extensively on monetary, macroeconomic, and modeling issues.

Damien Capelle is an Economist in the Research Department. Since joining the IMF in 2020, he has held positions in the African and Research Departments. He holds a Master from the Paris School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His research focuses on macro-finance, inflation-stabilization policies as well as on the role of higher education systems in shaping economic inequalities, growth and intergenerational mobility.

Paolo Cavallino is a Senior Economist at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Before joining the BIS he worked at the International Monetary Fund in the Research and African departments. His areas of research are international macroeconomics and finance. His current work focuses on monetary and exchange rate policies in emerging countries, the determinants of exchange rates, and the role of international financial frictions.

Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy is currently a Professor of Economics at Lehigh University College of Business, where he has been teaching since 2012. Prior to this, he held an Assistant Professor position at the University of Memphis from 2008 to 2012. His educational background includes a PhD in Economics and a master's degree in Physics. In addition to his academic role, he also serves as a Research Development Advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Professor Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy's research is primarily focused on applied macroeconomics, with a special emphasis on monetary policy analysis and finance. His scholarly work has been featured in prestigious academic journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Banking and Finance.

Kilian Huber studies the interaction between the financial sector and the real economy as well as the propagation of shocks across different parts of the economy. In his academic work, he has analyzed how the structure and health of banks affects firm growth, how firms react to interest rate and asset price fluctuations, how connections between different industries and regions shape macroeconomic growth, and how discriminatory ideologies harm firms. Huber was the inaugural Saieh Family Fellow in Macroeconomics at the Chicago Becker Friedman Institute and received a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE). His work has been awarded a Sloan and a Lamfalussy Fellowship.

Alberto has worked in the European Commission since 2015. Firstly, in the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, where he coordinated financial assistance to countries in the Eastern Partnership and relations with International Financial Institutions. Following this, in 2018 he worked as auditor of EU social funds in Spain. Between 2019 and 2022 he worked in the Directorate-General for Trade as policy coordinator for Ukraine. Since September 2022 he is the Head of the Trade and Economic Section at the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

Prior to this, Alberto worked for three years in the banking sector in Brussels and also coordinated the economic topics during the 2010 Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the OSCE in Vienna. He also served as UN volunteer in 2007-2008 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Alberto is an economist and holds two master’s degrees: European Economics (College of Europe, Bruges) and International Relations and Diplomacy (Spanish Diplomatic School, Madrid).

Oleksandr (Sasha) Talavera is a Professor of Financial Economics, University of Birmingham. He received his B.A. at Ostroh Academy (Ukraine), M.A. at EERC (Ukraine), M.A. at Boston College, and his Ph.D. at the European University Viadrina (Germany). Prior to joining the faculty at University of Birmingham, Sasha worked for Swansea University, University of Sheffield, Durham University, University of East Anglia, the Robert Gordon University, and DIW-Berlin. He is broadly interested in social media, online-prices, big data analytics, banking, international finance, and emerging market economies.

Ander Perez-Orive is a Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, where he has worked since 2016. His areas of expertise are in macroeconomics and financial economics, with a focus on firm financing constraints and monetary policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and, prior to joining the Federal Reserve, was a member of faculty at Pompeu Fabra University and at Boston University.

Denys Maliuska studied at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, graduating with a degree in law (2004).

In 2016, he graduated from the University of London, obtaining a Master of Laws degree.

From 2010 to 2019, he worked as a lawyer in business regulation, dispute resolution and bankruptcy at Business-Pravo Law Firm.

In 2010, he was appointed as a consultant on private sector development to the World Bank Group. In this capacity, he provided technical support to the governments of Ukraine and Central Asia.

Since August 2019, he held the position of Minister of Justice of Ukraine.

Jakub Growiec (PhD 2007) is Head of Division at Narodowy Bank Polski, and Full Professor and Head of Department of Quantitative Economics at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. His research interests include economic growth theory, macroeconomic production functions, automation and AI, measurement of productivity, human and social capital. He has published his research in numerous high-quality academic journals such as Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, International Journal of Central Banking, Social Networks, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Economic Theory or Economics Letters. He has received several prizes for his outstanding scientific achievements, including the National Science Centre award (2020) and the award of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2014). In 2022 he published the book “Accelerating Economic Growth: Lessons From 200 000 Years of Technological Progress and Human Development” which frames the development of the human civilization in a single overarching framework.

PhD candidate at the University of Basel and a collaborator at the Pricing Lab at Harvard. His research focuses on empirical macroeconomics, specifically on price-setting and inflation. His previous professional experience covers research and policy positions at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA).

Viacheslav Sheremirov is a senior economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. He is interested broadly in macroeconomics and international finance. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public Economcis, and the Journal of the European Economic Association, as well as presented in numerous invited seminars and conferences. Sheremirov holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Vitaliia Yaremko is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2023. Her research encompasses topics in macroeconomics, comparative economics, and economic history. She has published in the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and Comparative Economic Studies. Her recent work consists of designing and testing interventions using randomized controlled trials to study the effects of macroeconomic expectations of households and firms on their decisions. In the domain of comparative economics and economic history, her work focuses on the role of socialist institutions and policies in shaping individual and aggregate outcomes.

He has served as the Head of the Centre for Economic Strategy since its establishment in May 2015, carrying out its general management and representing it in dealings with partners. Since 2020, he has held positions on the Development Board of Mystetskyi Arsenal, the Supervisory Board of DEJURE Foundation, and the Board of StateWatch. Additionally, since 2021, he has chaired the board of Hromadske TV. With over 25 years of experience in economic analysis and research, Hlib Vyshlinsky previously served as Deputy Director of GfK Ukraine from 2010 to April 2015, contributing to its position as a leader in the Ukrainian social and marketing research market since 2003. Prior to that, from 1997 to 2003, he held roles including Chief Economist, Publications Director, and Deputy Director at the International Centre for Policy Studies. Hlib began his career as an economic journalist and editor, working for various print media from 1993 to 1998.

Gediminas Šimkus joined the Bank of Lithuania in 2002, and over the 18 years of his work at this institution consistently furthered his career, gaining experience in banking supervision, financial stability, analysis and forecasting of global and domestic economic developments, statistical compilation and dissemination, monetary policy formation, macro-prudential and economic policy decision-making. Two years spent working at the European Central Bank (ECB) contributed even more to his knowledge and experience. As Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, he oversaw the field of banking and financial stability as well as research. As the Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, Gediminas Šimkus oversees monetary policy, research,as well as organisational management (administration) to the extent that it is implemented by the Strategy and Governance Department and the Internal Audit Division.

Serhiy Stepanchuk is a professor of economics at the University of Southampton. He has obtained his MA in Economics from the Kyiv School of Economics in 2003, and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. In the past, he has worked as a researcher at the Central bank of Hungary. His research interests include macroeconomics, computational methods, labour economics, public finance. He has published his work in top economic journals such as Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics , International Economic Review.

Before founding OGResearch in 2006 with a small group of leading macroeconomists in Prague, David worked for the International Monetary Fund. As part of this engagement, he advised dozens of central banks on monetary policy around the globe. He also served as an advisor to the governor of the Czech National Bank during the financial crisis and implemented a model-based forecasting and analysis system for the Czech economy.

David has helped a series of central banks move to flexible exchange rate regimes and implement inflation targeting frameworks. Throughout his career, he has regularly engaged with academic institutions such as the Economic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Prague School of Economics.

David Vavra holds a Ph.D. in Economics.

Dr Tymofiy Mylovanov currently is the President of the Kyiv School of Economics and holds the position of Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as the Deputy Chairperson of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2016 to 2019, and as the Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020.

From December 2020 until November 2023, Dr. Mylovanov served as Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine. From 2021 to 2023, he chaired the Supervisory Board of 'Ukroboronprom' and was reappointed as a member in 2024.

Dr Mylovanov earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and has taught at several leading universities, including the Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He has published academic articles in top-tier journals such as Econometrica, American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies. Dr Mylovanov co-founded VoxUkraine during the Revolution of Dignity to improve Ukraine's economic discourse. Forbes Ukraine recognized him as a top economist in 2014 and 2015.

Dr Mylovanov leads Kyiv School of Economics and has transformed it from a graduate program in economics to a fully fledged university, a top Ukrainian think tank KSE Institute, a prominent charity foundation, and a top ranked business school.

Since February 2017 Vladyslav has been a member of the International Monetary Fund Executive Board. As an Alternate Executive Director Vladyslav represents Ukraine and 15 other European countries.

Prior to the IMF Vladyslav had a prominent banking career, serving as a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ukraine, and being responsible for the financial sector reforms and central bank transformation. Before joining the NBU in 2014, Vladyslav occupied a position of the Chief financial officer of UniCredit Bank in Ukraine, also being engaged in leadership of the Group turnaround projects in Central and Eastern Europe.

Before that Vladyslav pursued the academia and consultancy career. In his non-profit activity Vladyslav served as a member of the National reform council (2014-2016), Chair of the banking committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (2010-2014) and member of the Board of directors of the Kyiv school of Economics (2012-2014).

Since the Russia’ invasion of Ukraine, Vladyslav stands in the center of many international projects to provide financial support to Ukraine and plan its post-war reconstruction and modernization. He currently focuses on building reform and recovery architecture and creating mechanisms for financing of the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, including on the city level.

Dmytro Oliinyk has been working in Ukraine’s financial system since 2005.

He started his career as a specialist at a Ukrsibbank branch. From 2007 to 2013, Dmytro Oliinyk worked in Ukrainian and international banks.

In 2013, he started working for the multinational company PricewaterhouseCoopers PJSC (PwC), providing consulting services to banks in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the Ukrainian authorities.

Since 2017, Dmytro Oliinyk had been working as Director of the Credit Risk and Asset Assessment Department, and later as Director of the General Risk Management Department, at the state-owned bank Oschadbank.

In 2019, Dmytro Oliinyk was Director of the Financial Policy Department at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.

From May 2021 until his appointment at the NBU, he was Director General of the Economic Policy Directorate at the Office of the President of Ukraine.

In 2007, Dmytro Oliinyk graduated Khmelnytskyi National University with a degree in economic cybernetics. In 2011, he earned his PhD at the same university. Since 2020, he has been a postgraduate student at the Academy of Financial Management, a state education and research institution.

Gita Gopinath is the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as of 21 January 2022. In that role she oversees the work of staff, represents the Fund at multilateral forums, maintains high-level contacts with member governments and Board members, the media, and other institutions, leads the Fund’s work on surveillance and related policies, and oversees research and flagship publications. Ms Gopinath previously served as the Chief Economist of the Fund from 2019-2022. In that role, she was the Economic Counsellor of the Fund and Director of its Research Department. Prior to joining the IMF, Ms Gopinath was the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University’s economics department (2005-2022) and before that, she was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business (2001-2005). Her research, which focuses on International Finance and Macroeconomics, is widely cited and has been published in many top economics journals. She has authored numerous research articles on exchange rates, trade and investment, international financial crises, monetary policy, debt, and emerging market crises.

Uma is currently Deputy Director in the European Department at the IMF overseeing the work on a portfolio of countries in the region including Ukraine. In previous roles at the IMF, she has worked as a key architect of the IMF’s non-concessional lending toolkit, including the creation of several lending instruments like the FCL, PLL, and most recently the RST. Her experience as mission chief spans countries in the Western Hemisphere and the Middle East. Uma has also co-authored papers on crisis prevention, financial development, building economic resilience to natural disasters, and advancing growth in small countries.

Jeffrey Lehrer is a career Foreign Service Officer with over 22 years of experience leading complex programs in Europe and Eurasia, Central America, and Asia. He recently completed a Master's of Science at the Eisenhower School, an elite program for select rising senior government and military personnel and industry executives. Mr Lehrer also holds a Master's degree from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Brandeis University.

Mr Lehrer's assignments have included serving as Program and Operations Support Division Chief in the Center for Conflict and Violence Prevention, Director of the Office of Economic Development and Governance at USAID Philippines, Director of the Planning and Program Support Office in Guatemala, Tajikistan Country Office Director, Deputy Economic Growth Office Director for the Regional Program for Central America and Mexico, and Economic Growth Office Director in Tbilisi, Georgia. He speaks fluent Russian and Spanish.

Higher education at the Kyiv National Economic University, Master’s Degree in Finance. Also has a Financial Analyst Certificate from the CFA Institute (USA).

Extensive work experience in the investment and financial sector. Worked as an Asset Manager at Dragon Asset Management.

In 2015-2016, as an Adviser to the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, coordinated projects to increase transparency of activities, open data and improve corporate governance of state-owned enterprises.

In 2016-2018, managed the Prozorro.Sale project at Transparency International Ukraine, coordinated the development of IT solutions for the transparent sale of state assets.

Since 2018, he has been the Head of Prozorro.Sale SE.

President of CFA Society Ukraine, Head of the Consulting Supervisory Group of CoST Ukraine.

In 2023 was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalization.