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Yuriy Butsa is Ukraine's Government Commissioner for Public Debt Management since 2018, working on sovereign debt management and attracting international financing.

Mr. Butsa's career began at the State Commission for Securities and Stock Market, and he later served as deputy head of the Warsaw Stock Exchange's office in Ukraine, where he focused on helping Ukrainian companies raise capital.

He then joined the Coordination Center for Economic Reforms in 2010, where he helped draft legislation to reform Ukraine’s financial sector, in particular, improving corporate governance at joint-stock companies, introducing new instruments on the financial market as well as improving the operations of the banking sector and the business climate. In 2015, he became a Commissioner at the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, focusing on corporate finance, market instruments development and implementing EU capital market directives.

Before his current role, Mr. Butsa was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance for European Integration in 2016, with a portfolio that included public debt management, IFI cooperation, EU integration, and state-owned banks. In 2019, he was also appointed as a member of the
Supervisory Board of Ukreximbank.

Mr. Butsa holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” and a Masters from the Central-European University in Budapest.

His expertise has been internationally recognized. He was named in the "Most Impressive Funding Official" category by GlobalCapital Bond Awards in both 2020 and 2021, and received
the "Most Impressive CEE Funding Official" award in 2022.