Herman Gref
| Herman Gref Герман Греф |
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| Chairman and CEO of Sberbank | |
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Assumed office November 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Andrey Kazmin |
| Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russian Federation | |
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In office 18 May 2000 – 21 September 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Andrei Shapovalyants |
| Succeeded by | Elvira Nabiullina |
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Herman Oskarovich Gref Герман Оскарович Греф February 8, 1964 Panfilovo, Pavlodar oblast' Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | No affiliation |
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| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
Omsk State University Leningrad University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Herman Oskarovich Gref (Russian: Герман Оскарович Греф, born February 8, 1964) is a Russian German statesman and top manager. He was the Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia from May 2000 to September 2007. He currently is the CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of the largest Russian bank Sberbank.
Herman Gref was born in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan) into a family of ethnic German deportees who were exiled there in 1941. After fulfilling two years of military service, he studied law at Omsk State University in Siberia from 1985 to 1990. His name rendered in Russian Cyrillic would equate to German Gref translated back into the Roman alpahbet, but to native German speakers would be rendered Herrmann Gräf.
He then moved to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and taught law at Leningrad University until completing his post-graduate degree in 1993. In 1992 – 1998 Gref worked on several positions at the Saint Petersburg City Administration.
In August 1998, Herman Gref was appointed First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation, and was a member of its board until 2000. He was also appointed to the board of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market of the Russian Federation and the board of state-owned Svyazinvest and Gazprom in 1999.
Gref was first appointed as Minister of the newly formed Ministry of Economic Development and Trade on May 18, 2000 and was reappointed to the position in the succeeding Cabinet in 2004.
Herman Gref was a major advocate of Russia’s joining the World Trade Organisation. He is also responsible for creation of the Stabilisation Fund.
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