Herman Gref
Herman Gref (banker, deep politician) | ||||||||||
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Born | Hermann Gräf February 8, 1964 Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||
Nationality | Russian | |||||||||
Alma mater | Omsk State University, Leningrad University | |||||||||
Spouse | • Yelena Gref • Yana Gref | |||||||||
Member of | JP Morgan Chase/International Council, Munich Security Conference/Advisory Council, WEF/Board of Trustees | |||||||||
Interests | • The Great Reset • Sputnik V | |||||||||
Russian banker/politician. World Economic Forum’s board of trustees. Played a prominent roll in the development and production of the Sputnik V vaccine.
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Herman Gref (Russian: German Oskarovich Gref) is a Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia from May 2000 to September 2007. He is the CEO and chairman of the executive board of Sberbank, the largest Russian bank. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees. He played a prominent roll in the development and production of the Sputnik V vaccine
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Education and early career
Herman Gref was born in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan) into a family of 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.
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.
Sberbank and COVID
In 2011, Herman Gref—CEO of Russia’s largest bank, and a member of JP Morgan’s International Council[1] — joined the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees. Gref’s Sberbank (which is majority-owned by the Russian government) has been a strategic partner of the World Economic Forum since 2008[2], and is aggressively pushing the climate change agenda in Russia.[3]
Gref played a prominent roll in the development and production of the Sputnik V COVID-vaccine. He claims that he got the vaccine in April 2020 - which would make him one of the first people in the world to be injected with the drug. [4]
Sberbank is also working on implementing a QR code-based payment system in Russia.[5]
Work for the Russian government
In August 1998, 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.
Gref was a major advocate of Russia's joining the World Trade Organization.[6] He is also responsible for creation of the Stabilisation Fund.[7]
Gref was considered as one of the liberal reformers in Vladimir Putin's administration of the early and mid-2000s, besides Alexei Kudrin.
In January 2018, Gref was added to the US Treasury's "Kremlin list", a list of 210 officials, politicians and businessmen believed to be close to Vladimir Putin. According to the US Department of Treasury, the list is not a sanctions list and no restrictions are automatically imposed on its subjects.[8]
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Munich Security Conference/2013 | 1 February 2013 | 3 February 2013 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 49th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2015 | 6 February 2015 | 8 February 2015 | Germany Munich Bavaria | "400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts." |
Munich Security Conference/2016 | 12 February 2016 | 14 February 2016 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 52nd Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2017 | 17 February 2017 | 19 February 2017 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 53rd Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events." |
Munich Security Conference/2020 | 14 February 2020 | 16 February 2020 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland | Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011 | 26 January 2011 | 30 January 2011 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2012 | 25 January 2012 | 29 January 2012 | Switzerland | 2113 guests in Davos |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016 | 20 January 2016 | 23 January 2016 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
References
- ↑ https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chase-and-co/investor-relations/documents/JPMC-2012-AR-CorpInfo-Boards.pdf
- ↑ https://www.sberbank.ru/ru/press_center/all/article?newsID=623ec8e0-f0ba-46f5-b3f0-f40a87bd1bd9&blockID=1539®ionID=77&lang=en&type=NEWS
- ↑ http://emergingmarkets.me/sberbank-adopts-role-of-russian-vehicle-of-wefs-climate-related-initiative/
- ↑ http://emergingmarkets.me/sberbank-adopts-role-of-russian-vehicle-of-wefs-climate-related-initiative/
- ↑ https://www.rbc.ru/finances/01/07/2021/60dc485b9a7947db47fa4e86?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop
- ↑ http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mt_profile/german_gref/433935.html
- ↑ https://www.rferl.org/a/1079415.html
- ↑ https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/full-us-list-of-russian-oligarchs-with-putin-ties-intl/index.html
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