On the day marking the
anniversary of the introduction of the Ukrainian hryvnia and the
beginning of the school year, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva met
with the first-year students at the National Technical University of
Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” to brief them about the National Bank of
Ukraine and its role and place in the society, to speak about the
country's future and encourage the students to succeed in their studies, take
part in the transformation process the country is going through and move
decisively toward the goal.
“I got my first higher
education at this university,” said the NBU Governor, reflecting nostalgically
on her years as a student here. She gained profound knowledge and
met her tried-and-true friends and future husband at the Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute. “Frankly speaking, back then 30 years ago I never could have guessed
that I would be giving a lecture to the first-year students in the capacity of
the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. Not least because I majored in
Optical and Optical Electronic Instrument Engineering,” she said
joking.
In 1987, she graduated
from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Optical Engineering. After
graduating from the Institute, ValeriaGontareva launched her career as
planned: first as a research associate at the Ukrainian Center of
Standardization and Metrology, and later - as a design engineer at the Gydrobudmashina Institute.
“The Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute has always been an elite training centre. "I have
recently seen the ranking of universities and I am pleased to note that the
graduates from our university hold senior executive positions in the largest
companies in Ukraine,” said Valeria Gonatreva. Four out of the 6 Board
members of the National Bank of Ukraine have engineering backgrounds, and the
two Board members are the graduates from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
The motivational
lecture delivered by Valeria Gontareva was focused on the
transformation the National Bank of Ukraine is undergoing and the banking
sector reform implemented by a new team led by the Governor of the National
Bank of Ukraine. The lecture also touched on the changes the country
is going through – the transition to the European standards. She also told the
audience about a drastic turning point in her life, when 22 years ago she
decided to change her career and connect her future with business, and then, in
July 2014, she met another challenge – to take office as NBU Governor.
Valeria Gontareva told
the students that back then, when she was a student at the Kyiv Polytechnic
Institute, they worked on designing an infrared thermal imaging device and an
unmanned aerial vehicle. If these projects had not been shelved, Ukraine
wouldn’t have to ask the U.S. to provide it with infra-red vision devices that
could be used in the ATO area and ask the international community to supply it
with drones now.
The NBU Governor urged
the students not to be afraid to change their lives and find strength to change
life in the country for better:
“Don’t give up! Put
your ideas and projects into action! Register your inventions,
contact business incubators, and search ways to keep your projects moving
forward,” Valeria Gontareva said, calling on the students.- Our
country needs your brains and your energy, because it is high time to depart
from a resource-based economy model. The time is right to create a hi-tech and
highly innovative country”.
The idea to give a
course of lectures to first-year students belongs to Governor of the National
Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva. The aim of the project is to show the students unlimited
opportunities for development, brief them about the changes, drawing on the
example of the National Bank and provide inspiration to the youth to change
Ukraine for better.
It is common practice
around the world for heads of central banks to meet with university students.
For instance, when in office, Ben Bernanke, Former Chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors, gave a course of lectures to M.B.A. students at
George Washington University's School of Business. Mario Draghi,
President of the European Central Bank, also met with the students from the
University of Helsinki. Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing
Director, also devotes her attention to the financial education of the youth.
Besides the Governor of
the National Bank, her three Deputy Governors have already participated in the
project. Today, First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Oleksandr Pysaruk has
aroused aspirations in the minds of the students from the National University
of “Kyiv-MohylaAcademy”.
Yesterday Deputy
Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Vladyslav Rashkovan delivered
a highly motivational lecture to the first-year students from the Institute of
International Relations of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University
and the Banking University (Kyiv). On Monday, NBU Deputy Governor Dmytro Sologub met
with students at the Kyiv School of Economics.
On Friday, September 4,
NBU Deputy Governor Oleh Churii is to give a lecture at Taras Shevchenko
Kyiv National University. On the same day, NBU Deputy Governor Yakiv Smolii is
to deliver a lecture at his alma mater, I. Franko Lviv National
University.
The project is expected
to cover 1,000 students. Approximately 700 first-year students have already
attended the lectures given by the NBU’s senior executives.
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