Valeria Hontareva

On 1 October 2018 Hontareva became a member of the Institute of Global Affairs, an initiative of the London School of Economics.

On 10 April 2017, Hontareva submitted her resignation. On 11 May 2017, while still not formally dismissed, she left the bank and Deputy Governor Yakiv Smoliy took over her duties.

On 19 June 2014 Hontareva replaced Stepan Kubiv as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. Hontareva is the first female to lead the bank.

In her official public income declaration for 2013, Hontareva stated an income of 3.884.679 UAH, a car park with an Infinity FX35, a Porsche Cayenne, a Porsche Panamera, a Toyota Landcruiser, and several real estates. According to Hontareva's e-declaration for 2016, her total income amounted to UAH 57 mln (the most of which was due to the third tranche of selling her shares in ICU Holdings Limited - UAH 52,57 mln).

In 1996 she became director of resource management at Societe Generale in Ukraine and in 2001 deputy chairman of ING Bank (in 2007 for six months first deputy). From 2007 to 2014, she served as Chairwoman of then Investment Capital Ukraine (now ICU), Kyiv based financial group.

Hontareva is married and has two sons; Anton born in 1988 and Mykyta born in 2000. 2018 she moved to London.

After obtaining her degree in 1987, she was a junior researcher at the Ukrainian Centre for Standardization and Metrology for two years, and from 1989 to 1993, Hontareva worked as a design engineer in the institute "Hiprostrommashyna". In 1993 Hontareva started her career in the financial sector and she held top positions in the Kyiv branches of ING Bank and Societe Generale.

Valeriia Oleksiivna Hontareva, also spelled as Valeria Hontareva and Valeria Gontareva, (Ukrainian: Вале́рія Олексі́ївна Го́нтарева) (born 20 October 1964 in Dnipropetrovsk) was Governor or Chairwoman of the National Bank of Ukraine. She submitted her resignation on 10 April 2017 and left the bank on 11 May 2017.

Hontareva was born on 20 October 1964 in Dnipropetrovsk. She graduated in 1987 from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and in 1997 from Kyiv National Economic University with a master's degree in Economics.

28.03.2019 right before the 2nd round of the presidential election, a new agency UNIAN published fake news "In particular, Gontareva, together with ICU top manager Konstantin Stetsenko, is charged with 'assisting in a criminal organization and assisting in the illegal seizure of another's property – monetary funds of PJSC Agrarian Fund worth UAH 2.069 billion through the conclusion by JSC Brokbusinessbank of fake contracts of sale and purchase of government domestic loan bonds with the Agrarian Fund under direct repurchase agreements with the National Bank of Ukraine". The press secretary of the General Prosecutor's office Andrey Lysenko in a comment to Hromadske denied the information about the announcement of suspicions around President Petro Poroshenko, in particular the former head of the presidential administration [Boris Lozhkin], the former head of the NBU Valeria Hontareva and the deputy head of the Presidential Administration Alexei Filatov.