New List of HSE Supervisory Council Members Announced

Eleven individuals have become members of the new HSE Supervisory Council, as approved in an order signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The HSE Supervisory Council was established in 2011 in connection with HSE obtaining a new status as an autonomous educational institution. The Supervisory Council’s responsibilities include drafting proposals concerning reorganization of the university, the use of its property, major transactions, and audit. The Council also considers the draft financial plan and approves reports on its execution.

Supervisory Council members serve for a period of five years. Its first members were approved by a Russian Government order that took effect on May 28, 2011. In 2014, the Council underwent several changes mostly related to council members changing jobs and thus no longer having the ability to perform their responsibilities due to a high workload.

The current HSE Supervisory Council includes 11 members, three of whom represent the university. They are Evgeny Yasin, HSE Academic Supervisor; Alexander Shokhin, HSE President; and Lilia Ovcharova, HSE Director for Social Studies.

Maxim Akimov, Deputy Chief of the Government Staff; German Gref, Chairman of the Board & CEO of Sberbank; Mikhail Zadornov, President and Chairman of the Board at VTB24 Bank; and Leonid Pechatnikov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development, have been reapproved as members of the Council. Dmitry Pristanskov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management, has returned to the Council. Kirill Androsov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aeroflot; Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation; and Efim Rachevsky, Director of Tsaritsyno Centre of Education 548, have joined the Council for the first time.

The first meeting with new member will elect the Chairman of the Supervisory Council, a position which was held by Vyacheslav Volodin over the last two years (he became Chairman of the State Duma in October 2016).