[5] After obtaining her degree in 1987, she was a junior researcher at the Ukrainian Centre for Standardization and Metrology for two years, and from 1989 to 1993, Hontareva worked as a design engineer in the institute "Hiprostrommashyna".

[6] In 1993 Hontareva started her career in the financial sector and she held top positions in the Kyiv branches of ING Bank and Societe Generale.

[8] President Poroshenko hired for the sale of his Roshen holding her former employer company ICU beside Rothschild Group.

[13] International financial institutions representatives state that the biggest reform achievement in Ukraine under Hontareva's rule has been the clean-up of the banking system with the grand finale of the nationalization of Privatbank.

[16] [17] Hontareva has a good reputation among professionals as the Ukrainian central bank for the first time started to act independently from the interests of oligarchs and politicians.

On the contrary, the predecessors of Hontareva on firsthand wanted to maintain the stable national currency exchange rate.

First, the country has moved to a flexible exchange rate and implemented a new monetary policy of inflation targeting.