Natalie A. Jaresko is a leader in EY-Parthenon’s Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy practice, overseeing sovereign advisory efforts and complex public sector turnarounds. She has over 30 years of transformational leadership experience in the private, public, and non-governmental sectors.
Natalie served as Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2014–16) at a difficult time in Ukraine’s history, rocked by a deep recession, Russia’s initial occupation and war. She led the successful negotiation and implementation of the IMF program, including reduction of budget deficits, introduction of budgetary transparency, fiscal decentralization, improved corporate governance at state-owned banks, reduction of monopolistic practices, as well as a complex sovereign debt restructuring. As a result, Ukraine enjoyed its first signs of economic recovery, including stabilization of its currency, growth in banking deposits, sharply reduced inflation, and restored industrial production.
Natalie served five years (2017–2022) as the Executive Director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. She led the sustainable exit from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history while restoring the Island’s fiscal health. Notwithstanding environmental and political instability, she focused limited budgetary resources on improving critical public services, while strengthening budgetary practices, financial reporting, and transparency.
Earlier she spent two decades in private equity as co-founder/CEO of Horizon Capital, a fund manager with over $600 million under management, and as President/CEO of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund.
She serves as Chairperson of Aspen Institute Kyiv, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Nonresident Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Distinguished Fellow at Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Senior Advisor to the U.S.–Ukraine Business Council, Commissioner of the CSIS Ukraine Economic Reconstruction Commission, Kyiv Security Forum Council Member, Member of GLOBSEC Women’s Leaders Council, and as a Board member of WeBuildUkraine Fund, Superhumans Center, and BlueCheck Ukraine.