Petr Aven

Head of the Supervisory Board, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Alfa Banking Group

Mr Petr Aven was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors at Alfa Banking Group in June 2011. He served as President of Alfa-Bank from 1994 to June 2011. He was responsible for the Bank’s overall strategy and for relations with business and government leaders in Russia and abroad. Prior to joining the Bank, Petr Aven was Minister of Foreign Economic Relations for the Russian Federation from 1991-1992 and served as Russia’s representative to the G-7. Aven spent several years at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria (1989–1991). Prior to that he was a senior researcher at the All-Union Institute for Systems Studies at the USSR Academy of Sciences.