By Andrei Skvarsky.
Herman Gref, CEO of Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank, has flatly and forcefully ruled out any chance of his return into government, where he spent many years as a key economic reformer earlier on, and said a governmental job would be “the most disastrous ending to my career”.
Asked at a news conference in Moscow what he would do if he left his Sberbank job, which he has held since 2007, Gref hesitated but said there was one thing he was sure of.
“I definitely can’t see myself in any state structures – in the cabinet, in ministries, and so on. That’s not for me. I’ve said so on many occasions. It isn’t the work of my dreams,” he said.
“I don’t have any dreams of going back into any state position. Moreover, that would be the most disastrous ending to my career”.
There were various other fields he was interested in, “primarily business”, he said. “I’m also very interested in things that have to do with education. Also in venture entrepreneurship. Those are things I enjoy doing.”
Gref added that he had reached an age where one would rather do what one liked.
Gref was economics minister from 2000 to 2007.
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