Petr Aven
President of Alfa-Bank Russia

Mr. Aven is President of Alfa-Bank Russia, where he is responsible for the Bank’s overall strategy and relations with business and government leaders in Russia and abroad. Prior to joining Alfa-Bank Russia in 1994, Mr. Aven was Minister of Foreign Economic Relations for the Russian Federation (1991-1992), serving as Russia’s representative to the Group of Seven, and conducting a number of high-level trade and economic missions to Western capitals. An economist by training, Mr. Aven spent several years at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria (1989-1991). Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors at AlfaStrakhovanie Group, Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of CTC Media, and a trustee of the Board of the Russian Economic School, the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in Great Britain, and of Eisenhower Fellowships. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of ABH Holdings S.A.(holding company of Alfa-Banking Group). Mr. Aven is a member of the Board of the Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Council of the Russian Federation government, and a trustee of the Board of the National Association for National Financial Reporting Standards. He is a professor at State University Higher School of Economics. Since April 2006, he has been a member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In 2007, Mr. Aven became Chairman of the Russia-Latvian Business Council. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1977 and holds a PhD in Econometrics. Mr. Aven was born in Moscow, Russia in 1955.

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