OLGA DERGUNOVA
Counsellor to President and Chairman of VTB Bank Management Board
Senior Vice President
VTB Bank (PJSC)

Olga Dergunova graduated (with honors) from the Russian Academy of Economics (Moscow, 1987).

From 1994 to 2007, Mrs. Dergunova worked at Microsoft Corporation where she went through a career path from sales manager to CEO and President of Microsoft in Russia & CIS.

In 2007, Mrs. Dergunova joined VTB Bank. As Member of the Management Board, she was responsible for such areas as Corporate Banking, VTB international subsidiaries and development of VTB Education projects.

From 2012 to 2016, Mrs. Dergunova worked for the Government of the Russian Federation as Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management.

Over the past 25 years, Mrs. Dergunova has been actively involved in the development of business education in Russia. Since 1999, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of The Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University (GSOM SPBU), and in 2019 became Director of GSOM. As such, Olga Dergunova aims to make GSOM the No. 1 business school in Russia.

The mission of GSOM is to create knowledge, develop leaders and change the world for the better. In 2023, GSOM SPBU was the first and the only one business school in Russia to receive accreditation from three of the most reputable international associations: EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB (the Triple Crown).