Kirill Dmitriev

Kirill Alexandrovich Dmitriev (born 12 April 1975) is a Russian businessman who is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), an at least $10 billion sovereign wealth fund created by the Russian government to co‑invest in the Russian economy. Dmitriev was born in Soviet Ukraine. He lived in the United States between the ages of 14 and 25, where he studied at Stanford University and Harvard Business School. Upon moving to Russia in 2000, he worked for various companies before being chosen by Russian leader Vladimir Putin to head the RDIF. Dmitriev has long‑standing connections to Vladimir Putin's family. In February 2022, both Kirill Dmitriev and RDIF were sanctioned by the United States Treasury following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the sanction recital, the Office of Foreign Assets Control labelled RDIF as a slush fund for Vladimir Putin and as emblematic of Russia's broader kleptocracy. Dmitriev assumed the office of Special Presidential Envoy on Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation on 23 February 2025. Dmitriev was hand‑picked by Putin to be a negotiator with the Donald Trump administration in negotiating an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war. During the negotiations, Dmitriev emphasised business opportunities in Russia for US investors.