Ruben Vardanian
President of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO 

Ruben Vardanian is Chairman and CEO of the Troika Dialog Group. He has worked at Troika Dialog since it was founded and has been CEO since 1992. Mr. Vardanian is one of the leading figures on Russia's financial market, having played a key role in developing almost all segments of the country's stock market. He is an active member of many respected business organisations, including the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, where he sits on the Management Committee. He is also Chairman of the organisation's Corporate Governance Committee and Arbitrator of its United Committee on Corporate Ethics.

Mr. Vardanian has been ranked one of Russia's top three business leaders by the National Association of Managers, while in 2004 he won Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has also 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." In a 2001 article on the next generation of global leaders, Fortune magazine named him one of its "25 Rising Stars".