Oksana Markarova

Oksana Serhiyivna Markarova, born on October 28, 1976, is a Ukrainian politician and the current Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States since February 2021. She previously served as the Minister of Finance in the government of Volodymyr Groysman and Oleksiy Honcharuk. Markarova was born in Rivne, Ukraine, to an Armenian-Ukrainian family. She holds a master's degree in Ecology from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a master's degree in Public Finance and Trade from Indiana University. Markarova has worked as an economic policy advisor and manager for external and corporate communications at Western NIS Enterprise Fund. She also interned at the World Bank and held leadership positions in ITT-Invest company.