Finance Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko officially became a record holder among government officials. As it turned out, he works with 37 advisers at once - five of them receive a salary from the state budget, and the rest are freelance consultants.
This was reported by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance Dmitry Samonenko in response to the request of Glavkom.
Five staff advisers - Ivan Bogdan, Roman Gorbunenko, Irina Zhigulin, Dmitry Kovalenko and Oleg Pavlovsky - are officially employed in the ministry. Their salary in 2025 is UAH 17,800, however, as the Ministry of Finance recognizes, numerous allowances are added to this amount: in years of service, the intensity of work, the performance of particularly important work. The bonuses are also provided. But the specific figures of the department decided not to disclose.
Another 32 advisers cooperate with the Minister on a public basis. Among them are international experts and former government officials:
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Tanaka Masaru, an expert in the Central Bank of Japan, who previously worked in the financial institutions of Japan, the UAE and Myanmar;
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Sergey Aleksashenko, expirer of the head of the Central Bank of Russia, now co -founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom;
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Artem Shevalyov, Member of the Board of Directors of the EBRD and Deputy Chairman of the PrivatBank Supervisory Board.
There are also many former Ukrainian toplines on the team:
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Inna Draganchuk, expirer of the Minister for Reintegration of TT;
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Vitaliy Lisovenko, former Deputy Minister of Finance and Debly Commissioner;
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Yegor Stadny, expirer of the Minister of Education, now the first Vice -Rector of the Kiev School of Economics;
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Vasyl Shkurakov, former First Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Minister of Finance.
Among the freelance advisers is political technologist Boris Thizenhausen, who in 2014–2019 was an adviser to the Presidential Administration Petro Poroshenko. In the same years, Sergey Marchenko worked in the same structure - the deputy chairman of the AP. The administration was then headed by Igor Rainin.
Thus, the Minister of Finance Minister is not just technical assistants, but an influential circle of former high -ranking officials, international analysts and political advisers.
