In-person attendance for this event is sold out. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please contact programs@dacorbacon.org. Virtual attendance is still available.
Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 6 - 8:30 pm, starting with a reception featuring a cash/credit car bar for the first 30 minutes, and will include dinner. The live stream will begin around 7:30 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email).
Join DACOR for a conversation with the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Ambassador Oksana Markarova. The ambassador will participate in a fireside chat on Ukraine's past, present and future.
Oksana Markarova is Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States (since February 2021), Permanent Observer of Ukraine to the Organization of American States (since May 2021) and Ambassador of Ukraine to Antigua and Barbuda (since July 2023).
Before she arrived in DC on Apr 20, 2021, she served in Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance from 2015-2020, first as Deputy Minister and Government Commissioner on investments, then as Minister of Finance starting in 2018. During her time at the Ministry, she was a co-author of Ukraine’s macroeconomic revival program; conducted unprecedented fiscal consolidation leading to a GDP deficit of 2% and a debt to GDP reduction of below 50%; introduced midterm budgeting and gender oriented budgeting; as well as successfully negotiated, structured and coordinated two IMF programs and other IFI cooperation programs. During her tenure, she and her team also created the Ukraine Invest government promotion agency, the Ukrainian Startup fund, and an eData ecosystem of government public finance portals including spending.gov.ua, openbudget.gov.ua and analytical instrument BOOST, which opened the majority of public finance data to the public and increased Ukraine in all major international data transparency ratings.
Prior to her career in public service, Mrs. Markarova spent 17 years working in private equity and financial advisory having leadership roles in ITT investment group, Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Chemonics and the World bank, as well as founded Archidata, a startup electronic archive company, in between service positions in 2020.
Oksana Markarova serves at the Boards of Ukraine House DC foundation in Washington DC, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and the Ukrainian Development Foundation and supports Ukrainian Catholic University and Ukrainian Press Museum-Archive.
She holds BS and MS degrees in Environmental Science from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and an MPA in public finance from Indiana University with academic excellency and best international student awards.
Markarova is married with four children and a grandson.
Location
Setting: Hybrid DACOR Bacon House OR Online 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
