Dr. Nataliia Versal has over 16 years experience in the banking industry researching and is the author of more than 30 scientific publications in this field (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8801-6351), including peer-reviewed articles, textbook chapters, and conference papers (Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Turkey, and the Czech Republic).

After Ph.D. on the topic ‘Financial methods of state regulation of banking activity’ in 2002, 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.

She also has worked as an expert in finance and banking, USAID, ‘FINREP II’ (2015), ‘Financial Sector Transformation (FST)’ (2019, 2020). She collaborated with FINREP-II’s international financial literacy 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 2020 she developed the curriculum and materials for the training program in financial literacy for the Peace Corps staff.