Andrey Leonidovich Kostin is a representative of the financial world of the Russian Federation. He dared to take on a number of responsibilities - managing a leading bank, sponsoring several educational institutions and sports clubs, and doing them well. Who is he and where is he from? How did you come to the world of economics and manage to achieve such heights in your career?
Andrey Kostin is a financier, economist, manager, doctor of sciences, wonderful husband, father and grandfather. Few people know that in addition to the duties of the head of VTB Bank, he is a member of the Board of Trustees that oversees several Russian universities and sports organizations. Articles that “compromise” him often appear in the media, but most of them are based on the conjectures of journalists. So who is he - Andrei Leonidovich Kostin?
Biography and education of the head of VTB Bank Andrey Kostin
Andrei Leonidovich was born in Moscow, in September 1956, in the family of an employee of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In addition to him, his parents had another son - Sergei. Boys were required not only to have good academic performance, but impeccable behavior, as required by the status of their father.
Andrei Leonidovich's father specialized in economics. Children received specialized education in the same direction. Andrei Kostin, after graduating from high school, entered the Department of Foreign Economics of Moscow State University, in 1979 he successfully graduated from it and received a red diploma in financier.
Andrei Leonidovich also added the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation to his educational piggy bank, on the basis of which he defended his doctoral dissertation, and being already at a fairly mature age - at 45 years old.
All of Kostin's professional activities are related to finance. For some time he was engaged in his own business, but in the end he returned to the civil service and headed one of the leading banks in the country.
Career of Andrei Leonidovich Kostin
Kostin began his career immediately after graduating from the Lomonosov Moscow State University. As a promising and successful student, he was sent to the USSR State Consulate in Sydney (Australia). His next career milestones:
- Secretary in the European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 1982-85,
- employee of the Russian embassy in England - 1985-90,
- First Counselor and Secretary of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 1990-92.
In 1992, against the background of changes in the country, Andrei Leonidovich left the civil service and went into business. At first, he held a high position in one of the investment and financial companies, and then became Deputy Governor and Advisor for International Relations at Imperial Bank.
The knowledge of Andrei Leonidovich and his experience of work abroad, the desire to give all his best in his post was highly appreciated by the management. The success of the financier was also noted by representatives of the Russian government. Naturally, he received an offer to go into politics, and accepted it - in 1997, Kostin was elected to the council of the public movement Our Home is Russia.
In addition, in 1996, Boris Yeltsin entrusted Andrei Kostin with the post of chairman of VEB (Vnesheconombank), which oversaw the work with foreign debts transferred to the Russian Federation from the USSR.
The post of the head of VTB Bank and social activities
Andrey Leonidovich Kostin is successful in any professional direction related to economics and finance. From 2002 to 2010, he supervised two organizations at once - he served as head of Vneshtorgbank and was a member of the board of directors of Russian Railways (Russian Railways). But in 2010, he decided to concentrate on work at VTB (formerly Vneshtorgbank).
For his professional merits, Andrei Kostin was awarded several high awards, and his powers as head of VTB Bank were extended more than once, including by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Kostin will hold this post until 2022.
Since 2007, Andrei Leonidovich Kostin has been a member of the Supreme Council of the leading Russian party, United Russia, and is actively involved in social activities. The Board of Trustees, of which he is a member, oversees such educational institutions as Lomonosov Moscow State University and MGIMO, the legendary Dynamo hockey club.
In addition, Andrei Leonidovich takes an active part in the work of one of the funds that support sports and the physical development of young people in the Russian Federation. Kostin invests his own funds in sports and culture. In 2015, he made a gift to the Pavlovsk State Museum - he bought the service of Empress Maria Feodorovna at an international auction and handed it over to the museum.
Income and personal life of VTB head Andrey Kostin
There is no free access to official data on the income level of Andrei Leonidovich and his family. In 2011, Kostin topped the list of Forbes magazine, which includes the most expensive managers of the Russian Federation. In 2013, by his own admission in an interview, he received a monetary reward for his professional activities as the head of VTB in the amount of 200 million rubles.
Kostin's personal life is hidden from journalists, which does not prevent them from speculating about the love affairs of the head of VTB. In fact, Andrei Kostin has lived all his life with one woman - Natalia. The couple were classmates at Moscow State University, tied the knot in their youth. What Andrei Kostin's wife is doing is unknown.
Andrei Leonidovich had a son, Andrei. He died in 2011 while on vacation near Yaroslavl - crashed on an ATV. From him the Kostins have a grandson. Andrey Leonidovich and Natalia support the widow of their son and grandson.
Apart from his professional activity, Andrei Leonidovich also has simple hobbies - he loves art, often visits theaters, painting exhibitions, and enjoys skiing.
