Education
Dmitriev holds a Bachelor in economics with honors and distinction from Stanford University and an Master of Business Administration with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker scholar.
Dmitriev holds a Bachelor in economics with honors and distinction from Stanford University and an Master of Business Administration with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker scholar.
Dmitriev worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York and a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles, Moscow, and Prague, before returning to Russia in 2000. Russian Direct Investment Fund
In 2011 he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of a newly created Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), a sovereign wealth fund to make equity co-investments in Russia companies. Under his leadership, RDIF has invested $1.3 billion and raised $9,3 billion from co-investors including the sovereign wealth funds of China, Abu Dhabi, South of Korea, Italy, France, and Japan.
RDIF also attracted over $15 billion from international sovereign wealth funds through long-term strategic partnerships.
Other activities
The World Economic Forum selected Dmitriev to be a Young Global Leader, and he was elected as a Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). In 2011 he was the only Russian national to be named one of 100 most influential private equity professionals of the decade by Private Equity International magazine.
Kirill Dmitriev was Chairman of the B20s Investments and Infrastructure Taskforce during the year of the Russian presidency in G20. In November 2012 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Investment Council under the Chairman of the State Duma.
He serves on the Board of Directors of Rostelecom, MDMG, Gazprombank, Prominvestbank, the Mariinsky Theatre, and Moscow State University.
He was Chairman of the Russian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association from 2005 to 2006. In November 2008, Dmitriev published an essay entitled, "Crisis: five rules for survival”, in the leading Russian business daily Vedomosti, the sister paper of the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, in which he warned that the financial crisis of 2007-2008 crisis would be prolonged.
His mission has been described as "to change the face of Russian capitalism" and make the Russian economy less dependent on the petroleum industry by "overcom western funds’ reluctance to invest in a country many viewed as corrupt, prone to state meddling and plagued by a law-of-the-jungle legal system".
