Valeriya Goffe

Valeriya Goffe

Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank

Valeriya joined the World Bank back in 2011 and has since worked in three regions: Europe and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa. She works on a broad range of financial sector topics, including SME finance, responsible financial access, housing finance, state-owned financial institutions, financial sector oversight and policy, and pension reform. In addition, she has extensively worked on business environment and competitiveness issues during her career at the Bank. Valeriya has led preparation and implementation of lending projects in Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda and Morocco and technical assistance and analytical activities in various countries. She currently works in the Europe and Central Asia region. She leads financial sector work in Uzbekistan, including preparation of the housing finance strategy, strengthening of the financial consumer protection framework and financial safety net, improving payment systems oversight, reforming state-owned financial institutions, and other activities.

Over the years, Valeriya has accumulated significant experience leading Financial Sector Assessment Programs (FSAPs) which provide a comprehensive framework through which assessors and authorities in participating countries can identify financial system vulnerabilities and develop appropriate policy responses. Valeriya has been a mission chief of the Lesotho FSAP and a deputy mission chief for the Philippines FSAP.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Valeriya has worked in consulting of financial services clients. She also worked for several years as an Assistant Professor of Investments at the Kyiv National Economic University in Ukraine and as an adjunct professor of accounting at the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington, DC. Valeriya is currently the Board member of the Kogod Accounting Advisory Board.

Valeriya holds a PhD degree in Finance and Banking, MBA in Accounting, and Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Banking. She is a CFA Charterholder and a published author. Valeriya is trilingual in English, Ukrainian, Russian and also speaks French and Spanish.