Dr. Nataliia Versal has over 17 years of experience in the financial system researching and is the author of more than 35 scientific publications in this field (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8801-6351), including peer-reviewed articles, textbook chapters, and conference papers (Lithuania, Turkey, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic).

Dr. Versal has worked at Faculty of Economics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She has provided teaching activities (‘Central bank and monetary policy’, ‘Risk Management in Banking’, ‘Financial Stability and Financial Shocks’) and researched such issues as financial intermediation, banking system stability and its sustainability to shocks, the influence of instability in financial markets on banking activity. In 2021 she got a doctoral degree with thesis ‘Adaptation of banking system to financial shocks’.

She also has worked as an expert in finance and banking, USAID, ‘FINREP II’ (2015), ‘Financial Sector Transformation (FST)’ (2019 - 2021). She collaborated with experts to develop the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s financial literacy program for adults. In 2019 she worked with FST’s experts on the final review and editing of the Financial Literacy Course textbook and workbook. In 2021 she worked with FST and the central bank of Ukraine on the questionnaire for the survey ‘Financial literacy, financial inclusion and financial well-being in Ukraine in 2021’.