Kirilo Shevchenko

The Verkhovna Rada supported the appointment of Kirilo Shevchenko as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

Before that, on the evening of July 1, Yakiv Smolii resigned as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. Smolii named systematic political pressure on the NBU leadership as the reason for his resignation.

Shevchenko has extensive experience in the banking sector. He first worked at the Ukrainian Credit Bank (now A-Bank) as acting head of the credit resources attraction sector. In 1995, he became a leading economist in the credit resources sector of the credit department of Aval Bank.

After that, he worked for ten years at Finance and Credit Bank. There he rose from head of the standards department to first deputy chairman of the bank's board. He also headed the State Mortgage Institution.

In 2009, he was an adviser to then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. After that, he worked as first deputy chairman of the board of JSB Ukrgasbank.