Ruben Vardanian
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Ruben Vardanian is Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Troika Dialog Group. He has worked at Troika Dialog since it was founded and has been head of the company since 1992. He is an active member of many respected business organizations, notably the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, where he sits on the Management Committee and is also Chairman of the organization’s Corporate Governance Committee and Arbitrator of its United Committee on Corporate Ethics.
Since 2006 Mr Vardanian is a Member of Board of Directors and Chairman of Strategy Committee of AK Bars Bank, since 2005 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and a Member of NOVATEK’s Board of Directors. He was appointed CEO of Rosgosstrakh in 2002–2004 and was Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors over 2004–05.
He is a Member of the Coordination Board of the Armenia 2020 project, Member of the Russian branch of the Young Presidents’ Organization. He is also a Director of a fund established by the International Baccalaureate Organization to promote education worldwide, and a Member of the Supervisory Board of the Russian National Orchestra.
Mr Vardanian has been named “Businessperson of the Year” by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia for his “significant contribution to business in Russia and commitment to the highest standards of business ethics”. He was also named “Investment Banker of the Year” in RosBusinessConsulting’s annual “Person of the Year” award for 2003, while Fortune magazine, in an article on the next generation of global leaders, named him one of its “25 Rising Stars” for 2001. Mr Vardanian has been ranked one of Russia’s top three business leaders by the National Association of Managers, while for 2004 he won Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in Russia and was named “Investment Banker of the Year” by NAUFOR. In 2006 Ruben Vardanian has been awarded “For special merits in the Russian business” by "ARISTOS", the joint award by National Managers Association and the Publishing House "Kommersant".
In 2005 Mr. Vardanian invited other Russian prominent businesspeople to set-up the first Russian international business school - Skolkovo.
In 1992, Mr Vardanian graduated with a Distinction from the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University. He has also completed courses at INSEAD (France) and Harvard Business School.
