Natalie Ann Jaresko, American economist, accountant, government official. Certified Public Accountant, Illinois. Recipient special achievement award United States Export-Import Bank, 1988, Meritorious Honor award United States Department State, 1991, 94. member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Harvard Club.
Background
Jaresko was born on 24 April 1965 in Elmhurst, Illinois, the daughter of Mary (Maria), nee Budziak, and John (Ivan) Jaresko, both Ukrainian immigrants to the United States. Her father was born in Poltava Oblast during the Holodomor, during which her kulak great-grandparents, Feofan and Natalia Brazhnyk, starved to death.
Education
Residing in Ukrainian Village, Chicago, she studied accounting at DePaul University, earning a Bachelor of Science
Career
Jaresko lived in Ukraine from 1992 to 2000, and returned in 2004. She received Ukrainian citizenship on 2 December 2014, the day of her appointment as Minister of Finance of Ukraine. She remains a United States. citizen.
Although the United States. does not prohibit dual citizenship, Ukrainian law states that she must renounce her non-Ukrainian citizenship(s) within two years.
Jaresko held several economics-related positions at the United States Department of State in Washington, District of Columbia, and eventually coordinated activities of the State Department, the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, the United States Trade Representative, and Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) in their economic relations with the Soviet Union and its successors. As part of her work she interacted with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Later from 1992 to 1995, she was the first Chief of the Economic Section of the United States. Embassy in Ukraine, responsible for strengthening economic cooperation between the two countries. Jaresko also held several key positions in the private business sector.
In February 2001 she became President and Chief Executive Officer of Western Network Information Service Enterprise Fund (WNISEF).
In 2006, she co-founded Horizon Capital, where she served as a Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer. In those positions she established and strengthened economic ties with Ukraine and Moldova.
Membership
Between 2005 and 2010 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.