EXCLUSIVE: Tatiana Orlova quits as ING’s senior economist for Russia

By Andrei Skvarsky

Tatiana Orlova has quit Dutch bank ING as its Moscow-based senior analyst for Russia and the CIS.

A spokeswoman for ING Wholesale Banking Russia confirmed Orlova’s departure to EmergingMarkets.me but said the bank would not disclose whether she had left for a new job.

Before joining ING in autumn 2007, Orlova spent four years at the London office of Credit Suisse First Boston as chief economist for the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Egypt and a backup economist for Russia and Ukraine. Orlova is an economics graduate of the London School of Economics and holds a master’s degree in applied mathematics.

ING is understood to be retrenching across its businesses in Russia. A year ago, it sold its non-state pension fund business and its holding company in Russia to British insurer Aviva.

Speculation internally about the bank’s commitment to remaining in Russia has heightened recently.

skvarsky@yahoo.com

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