Nataliia Tymkiv

Nataliia grew up in Western Ukraine and has a Masters degree in Public Administration and a Specialist degree in Records Management and Information Activities. She has in-depth experience in executive leadership and financial management.

Since 2005, she has worked in various commercial enterprises as the head of the personnel department, executive director, chief accountant. From 2006 to 2007, she worked as the head of the educational and methodical department of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional center for retraining and advanced training of employees of public authorities, local governments, state enterprises, institutions and organizations. Since 2010, she has worked as a financial manager and later as a financial director of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM), a Ukrainian media policy and human rights nonprofit (formerly Media Law Institute). After 2018 she joined the Supervisory Board of CEDEM.

On the Wikimedia projects, Nataliia has been an active contributor since 2011, and shortly after became an administrator of Ukrainian Wikipedia.

In late 2012, Nataliia joined the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine as Treasurer. In this position, Nataliia built the financial model for the chapter from the ground up, including detailed financial reporting, accounting, and grant-making activities for the organization. Nataliia was later selected to serve as volunteer Executive Director of Wikimedia Ukraine in 2013 in addition to her position on the Board. In 2015, she returned to her position as Vice Chair and Treasurer of the Board.

Throughout her time on the Board, Nataliia helped oversee the growth and expansion of Wikimedia Ukraine in a number of ways, including improvements in transparency and governance-related processes for the chapter, the transition to Annual Plan Grants (APG) funding, growing Wikimedia Ukraine staff, and building and maintaining donor, partner, and community relationships.

Since 2016, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, and since 2019 she has been the Deputy Chairperson of the Board. Nataliia became the chair of the Board of Trustees in 2021.