Dr. Oleg Deripaska

Biography

Oleg Deripaska took over as RUSAL's president in November 2014. He is responsible for the strategic development of the company. Since January 2009, he was the general director of RUSAL and was responsible for the formation and implementation of the company's development strategy. In 1997, Oleg Deripaska, who was the general director of the Sayanogorsk Aluminum Smelter, initiated the creation of the first in the post-Soviet space vertically integrated industrial company - the Siberian Aluminum Group (renamed Basic Element in 2001), which later merged a number of leading Russian aluminum enterprises industry. In 2000, "Siberian Aluminum" became one of the world's top ten aluminum producers. From 2000 to 2003, Oleg Deripaska was the General Director of RUSAL, which combined the aluminum and alumina assets of the companies "Siberian Aluminum" and "Sibneft". In 2007, as a result of the merger of aluminum and alumina enterprises of RUSAL and SUAL with the alumina assets of the Swiss Glencore, United Company RUSAL was established, which became the world aluminum industry leader. In 2009, one of the most difficult for RUSAL in connection with the global economic crisis, Oleg Deripaska again headed the company. Oleg Deripaska graduated with honors from the Physics Department of Moscow State University. M. Lomonosov, as well as the Russian Economic Academy. GV Plekhanov. Oleg Deripaska is vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, chairman of the board of the Russian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is also a member of the boards of trustees of a number of cultural and educational institutions: the Foundation for the Promotion of National Science, the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, and business schools of the Moscow and St. Petersburg State Universities. By the order of the President of the Russian Federation Oleg Deripaska has been appointed the representative of Russia in the Business Advisory Council of the forum "Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation". Since 2007, he has headed the Russian branch of the council. In 1999, Oleg Deripaska was awarded the Order of Friendship. In 1999, 2006 and 2007 he was named entrepreneur of the year by the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti. In 2013, Oleg Deripaska was awarded the Metal Bulletin Global Aluminum Award for Excellence in the category "Ambassador of the Aluminum Industry". On the personal initiative of Oleg Deripaska, a modern hospital has been established to combat the Ebola virus in the Kindia region of Guinea, where RUSAL is one of the largest participants in the bauxite mining and alumina market. In cooperation with scientists from Rospotrebnadzor, the Scientific Clinical Diagnostic Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology was built (RUSAL's investments in the creation of the Center exceeded $ 10 million). As a result, RUSAL became the first public company in the world to implement a capital project aimed at combating the spread of the Ebola virus. Today, thanks to the efforts of the international community, including Russia, the Ebola fever has been stopped and the risks of spreading the virus are minimized.  

Research Interest

strategic development