Effective 27 April 2015, Director of Open Market Operations Department Oleh Churii is appointed Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine responsible for the overall supervision and control of subdivisions concerned with regulator’s market operations.
According to Valeria Gontareva, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, this appointment completes the process of staffing the central bank’s senior executive level: ‘The National Bank’s top management is finally fully staffed. So now, market operations will be overseen by a person who has proved himself as a highly-qualified specialist and talented manager’.
She said that during his work at the National Bank, Oleh Churii displayed substantial managerial qualities and was very efficient at improving performance of department he ran and achieving effective cooperation with banks. She believes that expansion of the scope of Oleh Churii’s duties will surely improve effectiveness of open market securities operations and help upgrade the banking system liquidity regulation mechanisms.
Oleh Churii was born on August 19, 1970. In 1993 he graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and in 1994 from the Higher School of Banking of the International Center for Market Relations and Entrepreneurship, majoring in Finance & Credit and gaining qualification of Economist and Banking Manager. In 2006 he received a certificate of financial analyst (CFA). He is fluent in English.
Oleh Churii has been working in banking industry since 1993, in managerial positions since 1999: Head of Treasury at Bank Austria Kreditanstalt Ukraine Joint-Stock Commercial Bank; Assistant Director of Investment Business Department and then Director of Investment Business Department at Ukrsibbank Joint-Stock Commercial Innovative Bank; Head of Operations on the Fixed-Yield Instruments Market, Investment Department of VTB Bank Public Joint-Stock Company.
In October 2014 Oleh Churii was appointed Head of the NBU Office for Open Market Operations and Floating of Government Securities, and in December 2014 – Director of the NBU Open Market Operations Department. Since 10 December 2014, he is a member of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine.