Belfer Center Director's Seminar
with
Petr Aven, President of Alpha-Bank, Russia
on
"The Russian Economic Crisis:
Imported or Homegrown?"
Date: Friday, May 14, 2010
Time: 2:00-3:00PM
Place: Belfer Center Library (L369)
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/aven.html
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a
Directors' Lunch with Petr Aven, President, Alpha-Bank-Russia.
Petr Aven has served as President of Alfa-Bank since 1994. He is responsible
for the Bank's overall strategy and for relations with business and government
leaders in Russia and abroad. He has played a central role in developing
Alfa-Bank into a market leader in nearly every category of financial services.
Alfa-Bank is routinely recognized as Russia's best privately owned bank by
publications like Euromoney and Global Finance.
Prior to joining the Bank, Petr Aven was Minister of Foreign Economic
Relations for the Russian Federation from 1991-1992. In this role, he was the
guiding force in the development of Russia's economic and trade relations with
the West, serving as Russia's representative to the G-7, and conducting a
number of high-level trade and economic missions to Western capitals. Aven was
one of the most influential voices and figures in the reform circles of the
early 1990's. He was personally responsible for establishing the convertibility
of the rouble and for the liberalisation of foreign trade in the government of
Yegor Gaidar.
An economist by training, Aven spent several years at the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria (1989-1991) and
prior to that he was a senior researcher at the All-Union Institute for Systems
Studies at the USSR Academy of Sciences. Aven holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Moscow
State University (1980).
Petr Aven is Chairman of the Board of Directors of AlfaStrakhovanie and
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of CTC Media. He is a member of the
Boards of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and of the
Association for National Financial Reporting Standards. He is also a Trustee of
the Russian Economic School and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Pushkin
State Museum of Fine Arts.
In 2007 Petr Aven became Chairman of the Russia-Latvia Business Council.
Moreover Petr Aven is a trustee of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR),
and a trustee of Eisenhower Fellowships.
Petr Aven is the author of numerous scientific papers and articles on
Economic and Trade Issues and is widely quoted in the financial and trade press
on matters related to the Russian economy and trade policy. He is a professor
at State University - Higher School of Economics. He has received a number of
international awards, most recently by Institutional Investor magazine, when he
was named Russia's Most Admired Executive in Financial Services. Aven is a
frequent visitor to western capitals where he often lectures on economic
developments in Russia.
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first come, first served basis.
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with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the
contents of the lunch. Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these
restrictions. Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all
available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.
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