Hereha also was a Deputy Mayor and Secretary of the Kyiv City Council from 20 April 2011 to 5 June 2014.

[1] She was born on 9 August 1959 in the village of Hlynets, Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast.

She defended her PhD thesis on "Economic efficiency of shopping malls" in 2015.

In 2011, Oleksandr and Halyna Hereha took 27th place in the ranking of the richest people in Ukraine according to FOCUS magazine with a fortune of $890.8 million.

[3] In 2012, she ran for the Verkhovna Rada in the G215 constituency (Kyiv, Troieshchyna), but was defeated by Andriy Ilyenko, a candidate from the All-Ukrainian Union of Freedom.