Natasa Pilides is the General Manager of eWise Cyprus Ltd (formerly ExxonMobil Cyprus Limited), under which more than 65 service stations operate under the ESSO brand.
She is a non-executive board member of Pelagic Credit Plc, and in a non-profit capacity, she also serves on the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Institute.
She served as Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Cyprus from July 2020 to March 2023. During her term, she implemented a multifaceted strategy for the green energy transition and for the support and promotion of entrepreneurship, industry and exports, securing €590 million in funding for the period 2021–2027. She also oversaw the issuance of funding programmes exceeding €265 million in 2021 and 2022, aimed at enhancing business competitiveness as well as technological and energy upgrades.
Previously, she served as the first Deputy Minister of Shipping of the Republic of Cyprus, a position she assumed upon the establishment of the Shipping Deputy Ministry on 1 March 2018. Between 2016 and 2018, she also served as Director General of Invest Cyprus, the government agency responsible for investment promotion, investor support and the facilitation of reforms.
Natasa has more than fifteen years of experience in the private sector. She served as Director and Regional Chief Operating Officer at Baker Tilly in South East Europe (for Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova) and spent nine years at PwC in Cyprus, Milan and London, working in the areas of audit and tax.
She graduated from the University of Oxford with a first-class honours degree with distinction in Modern Languages and Literature (French and Italian). She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC).
