28 Facts About Kirill Dmitriev

Kirill Alexandrovich Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, an at least $10 billion sovereign wealth fund created by the Russian government to co-invest in the Russian economy.

Kirill Dmitriev assumed the office of the Presidential Envoy on Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation on 23 February 2025.

Kirill Dmitriev was born in 1975 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

In 1989, Kirill Dmitriev came to a host family in New Hampshire, as one of the first Soviet exchange students from Ukraine.

Kirill Dmitriev continued his education at Harvard Business School, where he completed the MBA program as a Baker scholar.

Kirill Dmitriev was an associate at private equity fund Delta Private Equity Partners from 2002 to 2007, while working for The US Russia Investment Fund.

In 2004, Kirill Dmitriev worked on the sale of DeltaBank to General Electric, and in 2005 DeltaCredit Bank to Societe Generale,.

Kirill Dmitriev was the president of Icon Private Equity from 2007 to 2010.

Kirill Dmitriev sold CTC Media shares to Fidelity Investments, National Cable Networks to Basic Element, CompuLink to three investment funds, TV3 to Prof-Media, and NTC to Bank Rossiya.

Kirill Dmitriev was Chairman of the Russian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association from 2005 to 2006.

In 2010, the World Economic Forum selected Kirill Dmitriev to be a Young Global Leader, and he was elected as a Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Kirill Dmitriev's mission has been described as "to change the face of Russian capitalism" and make the Russian economy less dependent on the petroleum industry by "overcoming western funds' reluctance to invest in a country viewed as corrupt, prone to state meddling and plagued by a law-of-the-jungle legal system".

Kirill Dmitriev has cultivated a close relationship with Mohammed Bin Salman since 2014.

In 2020 Kirill Dmitriev focused RDIF on combatting the novel coronavirus infection through investing in most promising solutions in testing, drugs, vaccines:.

Kirill Dmitriev has been critical of British COVID-19 vaccine research efforts, repeatedly referring to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as the "monkey vaccine", as the studies involved a modified version of the virus that infected chimpanzees.

Kirill Dmitriev stopped this after The Times accused him of acting as part of a co-ordinated disinformation campaign against the British research efforts.

In 2020, Kirill Dmitriev advocated for the partnership of Gamaleya Institute, RDIF and AstraZeneca to help AstraZeneca increase the efficacy of its vaccine by combining it with one of the components of Sputnik V: on November 23,2020, RDIF and Gamaleya Institute offered AstraZeneca to collaborate on this via a twitter post.

Kirill Dmitriev is on the boards of trustees of the Mariinsky Theatre, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS and National History Fund.

Kirill Dmitriev was Chairman of the B20s Investments and Infrastructure Taskforce during the 2013 Russian presidency of the G20.

In 2014 Kirill Dmitriev was the Russian representative in the BRICS Business Council.

In January 2017, Kirill Dmitriev met with Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, George Nader, and the UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the Seychelles.

Erik Prince was understood by the other participants to represent the presidential transition team of Donald Trump, while Kirill Dmitriev was understood to represent the Russian government.

In February 2019, Kirill Dmitriev was one of the first Russian executives and businessmen to personally speak in defence of the detained founder and head of the Baring Vostok Capital Partners Michael Calvey and other detained employees of the investment fund.

Kirill Dmitriev appealed to Moscow City Court, Moscow's Basmanny district court, and the Russian Investigative Committee, requesting to put detained Michael Calvey and other Baring Vostok employees to house arrest.

In early April 2025, Kirill Dmitriev took part in the negotiation process concerning the war in Ukraine and economic relations between the US and Russia, meeting with American envoy Steve Witkoff several times.

Kirill Dmitriev has been awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of Honour by the Russian Federation.

Kirill Dmitriev's wife Natalia, who is a deputy director of the NGO Innopraktika Foundation, works for and is a very close friend of Putin's younger daughter Katerina Tikhonova.

The couples Shamalov-Tikhonova and Kirill Dmitriev-Popova were very close and went on holiday trips together before the divorce of Shamalov and Tikhonova which was announced in early 2018.