18 Facts About Kirill Androsov

Kirill Androsov was born on June 1972 and is a Russian businessman, economist, and investor.

Kirill Androsov is the former chairman of the board of Russian national airline Aeroflot and Russian Railways Kirill Androsov has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Since 2012, Kirill Androsov is a professor of economics at the Russian National Research University's Higher School of Economics.

Kirill Androsov graduated with a master's degree from the Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University in 1994.

Kirill Androsov then completed a doctorate at the Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics.

Early in his career, Kirill Androsov worked for Hansa Investments Oy, a boutique Finnish investment banking firm, and St Petersburg's Property Management Committee, in charge of attracting foreign investments to the city of St Petersburg.

From 1999 to 2004 Kirill Androsov served as Deputy CEO and then CFO of Lenenergo a Russian energy utility company.

Kirill Androsov joined the Russian Ministry for Economic Development and Trade, where he began his career as director for tariff regulation and infrastructure reform and later served as Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister.

Kirill Androsov served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Russian Government between 2008 and 2010, during which time Vladimir Putin was Prime Minister.

Kirill Androsov has been chairman of the boards of Aeroflot and Russian Railways, and a member of the board of directors for Channel One Russia, LSR Group, and Altera Capital.

Amongst other investments, Kirill Androsov owns the historic hotel Chateau Gutsch in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Kirill Androsov bought the property in June 2021 from its previous owner, the Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev.

The Pandora Papers leaks found that one of Kirill Androsov's funds was linked to a corruption scandal in the Maldives that cost the country nearly $80 million.

Kirill Androsov denied that he or Lang Capital had engaged in any wrongdoing.

Kirill Androsov's name appeared in the Pandora Papers and the Paradise Papers along with other Singapore-based Russian businessmen in connection with compliance failures by a Singapore-based firm, Asiaciti Trust.

Kirill Androsov was linked to Evgeny Novitsky, a Russian billionaire who has held shares in one of Russia's largest cellphone networks and leads RTI Systems which makes high end electornics.

MAS made no findings that Kirill Androsov was involved in money laundering or any other illegal activity connected with the trust structures set up and administered by Asiaciti.

In October 2021, Kirill Androsov told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he still does business with Asiaciti.