Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine
Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine is a non-governmental organization that provides platform and facilitation for a dialogue between business, authorities and global investor community.
Based in Kyiv since early 2017, the Office is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Functions:
- Facilitation of the dialogue between all stakeholders - business community, state authorities, regulators and international financial institutions - on improving investment climate in Ukraine
- Policy-making and advocacy of the legislation and regulatory acts that improve the investment climate in Ukraine
- Co-ordination and facilitation of dialogue between foreign investors and key stakeholders in Ukraine
- Organization of sectoral working groups to identify key issues related to the investment climate and investment flows, development of roadmaps.
- Providing analytical and legal coverage of key issues affecting the investment climate in Ukraine
- Organizational and communication support of the Council's activities - planning and organization of Council meetings, agenda development, monitoring of the implementation of Council decisions and recommendations, dealing with requests to the Council
Head of the Office of the National Investment Council
Head of the Office is Yuliya Kovaliv. She has almost ten year experience of executive positions in the energy sector and public administration. Before the creation of NIC Office she served as the First Deputy Minister of Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (Ukraine) and was responsible for reforming state enterprises and investment policy. She was also a member of the state regulator of the National Commission, which perform state regulation in the energy and utilities. From April 2016 to April 2017, Julia Kovaliv held the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board in Naftogaz.
In her early career Julia worked for Ernst & Young, LLC "Financial Consulting Company". For the next three years she held the position of financial director of LLC "Gazex Ukraine." From 2011 to 2013 she worked in the Coordination Center for economic reforms.