Lesia Kolesan was appointed Director of the Procurement Department of the National Bank of Ukraine on 3 February 2025.
Her responsibility in this capacity includes:
- methodological support to the procurement process
- coordination of the procurement planning process within the NBU structure, ensuring the organization and conduct of procurement of goods, works, and services at the NBU's cost
- ensuring the activities of the NBU Procurement Commission, as well as the NBU's authorized persons responsible for organizing and conducting procurement
- methodological support and organization of contractual work under agreements on issues related to the NBU's activities, conclusion and support of procurement agreements.
The Procurement Department is part of the NBU’s Finance, Administration, and Operations function, which is under NBU Deputy Governor Yaroslav Matuzka’s general management and control.
"Our procurement team is constantly improving its processes to make the regulator's procurement even more competitive and efficient, even amid a full-scale war, while at the same time meeting the need for critical and planned procurement for the NBU's smooth operation in a timely manner. As a result, in recent years, the NBU's procurement team has been recognized as one of the best public customers according to the Prozorro system. I am confident that under Lesya Kolesan's leadership we will be able to further expand these achievements and work even more efficiently and effectively. We count on her years of experience and thorough knowledge of the public procurement system," said Yaroslav Matuzka.
Lesia Kolesan has almost 18 years of experience in government and public procurement, including almost ten years in senior positions at the National Bank of Ukraine.
Since August 2024, she has been Acting Director of the NBU Procurement Department. In 2022, Lesia Kolesan was also included in the succession pool for the position of Director of the NBU Procurement Department.
She was transferred to the position of Director of the Procurement Department from the position of Head of the Public Procurement Office of this department, which she had held since 2019.
She started her work at the NBU in 2007 as a Lead Economist in the Contractual Relationships Division of the NBU Administration and Operations Office.
Lesia Kolesan has two university degrees: she graduated from the Poltava Cooperative Institute (major in Corporate Economics) and Institute of Higher Education of the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics (major in Law). She also regularly attended advanced training programs, in particular at the Center for Procurement Excellence of the Kyiv School of Economics (2017) and the International Institute of Management (IIM–Kyiv) (2022–2023).