Simon Vine (Investment and Risk Committee Member)

Co-Head of CIB (Commercial-Investment Banking division) of Alfa-Bank, one of Russia’s largest private banks.

Earlier in his career he worked at American Express Bank, Refco, Union Bank of Switzerland, and Société Générale in New York. A columnist for the Russian business daily Vedomosti, he served on the Russian State Assembly’s (Duma) task force that developed the legislative framework underpinning Russia’s derivatives market and was part of the International Finance Corporation-sponsored group that drafted measures needed for development of the Russian securitization market. He holds a PhD in Finance from Russia’s Academy of National Economics and an MBA from Columbia University.