20 Facts About Sergei Gorkov

Sergei Gorkov is chairman of Vnesheconombank, a major Russian state-owned bank.

Sergei Gorkov is a graduate of the Academy of the Federal Counter-Intelligence Service, which prepares members for the Foreign Intelligence Service and Federal Security Service, and holds a master's degree in economics.

In 1994, Sergei Gorkov graduated with a law degree from the Academy of the Federal Counter-Intelligence Service, which prepares members for the Foreign Intelligence Service and Federal Security Service.

Sergei Gorkov later worked with Bank Menatep before joining the Yukos oil company and Yukos Moscow, all of which are now defunct.

Sergei Gorkov was a vice president at Yukos, where he oversaw personnel and pensions.

Sergei Gorkov was engaged in a social outreach program, Yukos' own youth movement called "New Civilization".

Forbes stated it was a large mystery how Sergei Gorkov managed to avoid arrest, but inside sources stated it was through his connections with the Kremlin and the FSB.

In 2005, after the Yukos fiasco, Sergei Gorkov moved to London, where he worked with several companies.

Sergei Gorkov sat on the board of directors for Eton Energy Ltd.

Sergei Gorkov moved into the banking sector in November 2008, when he joined the state-owned Sberbank as director of personnel.

Sergei Gorkov led a retraining program, with 200,000 of the employees receiving some form of retraining, and introduced an employee evaluation system that led to monthly bonuses for the best employees.

Sergei Gorkov was tremendously successful during his first five years at Sberbank; Sergei Gorkov was appointed deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank in October 2010.

Sergei Gorkov was promoted to run its international operations division and helped it expand its business reach from two countries to 20.

In 2016, Sergei Gorkov announced VEB would partner with the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia, a financing conglomerate of 56 Islamic countries, with an initial pilot project of $100 million.

In 2017, Sergei Gorkov drew significant attention in Western media over his December 2016 meeting with Jared Kushner, son-in-law and top adviser to then president-elect Donald Trump.

However, VEB issued a statement that said Sergei Gorkov met with Kushner on a private matter concerning his family's real estate corporation, Kushner Companies, even though VEB has been under international sanctions since July 2014.

VEB and White House officials have declined to specify the date of Sergei Gorkov's meeting with Kushner.

In January 2017, following the meeting with Kushner and after Sergei Gorkov had returned to Russia, Sergei Gorkov's VEB published the document "Strategy 2021" in which VEB planned to gain access to borrowing in the United States.

Sergei Gorkov sits on the board of directors for several companies, including Sberbank and Denizbank, the Russian aircraft industry's United Aircraft Corporation, and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, a state-run project that encourages young Russians to turn their ideas into businesses.

Sergei Gorkov was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II class, and the Certificate of Honor of Russia.