Full Name Andrey Yakunin Name Andrey Yakunin Employer VIY Management | Occupation Businessman | |
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Education Saint Petersburg State University | ||
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Andrey Yakunin (Андрей Якунин) (born 1975) is a London-based businessman, chairman of the National Alternative Investment Management Association (NAIMA) in Russia, and the co-founder of VIY Management.
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- Rbc exclusive interview with andrey yakunin english subtitles
- Early life and family
- Education
- Career
- References
Early life and family
Andrey Yakunin is the son of Vladimir Yakunin, the former head of Russian Railways and an old friend of Vladimir Putin. His mother is Natalya. Andrey has a brother, Viktor Yakunin.
Andrey Yakunin lives in Hampstead, north London, where his son, Igor, attended the exclusive Highgate School.
Education
Yakunin holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Credit from St. Petersburg State University, an MA degree in Economics and Mathematics, and EMBA Global from London Business School and Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Yakunin is an associate professor of economics at the St Petersburg State University.
Career
Yakunin runs VIY Management, a private equity and real estate investment company which he founded in 2006 with British, Israeli-born, investor Yair Ziv. The company facilitates foreign investment in Russia and is pursuing a plan to build hotels in Russia. Yakunin is also participating via VIYM in the construction of a houses in St. Petersburg and in 2014 acquired Russian chocolatier French Kiss.
Yakunin is the chairman of the National Alternative Investment Management Association (NAIMA) in Russia.