Sergey V. Avramov

Trade Representative of Russian Federation in Switzerland

Born on 25 October 1962 in Moscow.

Education

1985 – Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, qualification: translator-referent in German and English.

1992 – Institute of Comparative Political Sciences under Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: doctor of political sciences.

1998 – Academic Law University, Institute of State and Law under Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, qualification: lawyer.

2010 – Annual training on business administration made by Duke CE within the program for CIB top talents of BNP Paribas Group, Paris, Louveсiennes and Chantilly.

2007 – 2018 – Trainings on management, investment banking business, team leadership, work with mass media, etc., within BNP Paribas management and leadership development programs, Moscow, Paris and Louveciennes.

2017 – Skolkovo management training course, Moscow.

Labour activities

1994 – 2006 – lawyer, senior lawyer, counsel, head of banking and finance practice with law firms including Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann (currently Freshfields), Baker McKenzie, Beiten Burkhardt, Coudert Brothers, and CMS Cameron McKenna.

2006 – 2018 – head of legal, management board member, deputy chairman of the management board of «BNP Paribas Bank» JSC. In 2015 and 2017 acting chairman of the management board of «BNP Paribas Bank» JSC.

2018 – 2019 – counsel of general director, and project manager of LLC «Management Company of the Banking Sector Consolidation Fund».

2019 – 2020 – chairman of the board, and supervisory board member of JSC «Asian-Pacific Bank».

2015 – 2021 – supervisory board member of SRO National Financial Association.

Additional information

Fluent German and English, basic French.