First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors
Oleg Sysuev is First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank. He is responsible for the Bank’s regional branch network and banking in the regions. Prior to joining the Bank in 1999, he held prominent positions in government. Under President Yeltsin, Oleg Sysuev was First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration (1998-1999), Vice-Premier of the Federal Government and Minister of Labour and Social Development (1997-1998). Previously, he was Mayor of Samara (1992-1997) and he also represented Russia on the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
In addition to his role at the Bank, he is President of the Board of the Congress of Municipalities of Russia (since April 2000), a member of the Presidential Council for Local Government and Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Committee for Literature and the Arts. He has published numerous articles on the structures of post-Soviet Russia.
Oleg Sysuev was born in Samara, Russia on 23 March 1953.
