Former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich became co-chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich was elected co-chairman of the board of the Skolkovo Foundation. about this Interfax writes with reference to the fund's message.

According to the charter, the fund's council is headed by two co-chairmen on a voluntary basis, one of whom is the president of the fund. The second co-chair until recently was former Intel president Craig Barrett, who made the decision to leave the fund at the end of 2017. The second co-chairman is businessman Viktor Vekselberg.

During his time in government, Dvorkovich oversaw the innovation industry, in particular, he was the chairman of the board of trustees of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

“Dvorkovich is well aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of the project, is familiar with its financial and operational performance, understands our current tasks and strategic priorities. I am very glad that now Arkady Vladimirovich comes to our team, so to speak, to the position of a playing coach and will be able to take part not only in the formation of our further ambitious plans, but also in their implementation in practice, ”Vekselberg commented on the appointment, words which are given in the message of the fund.

Let's remind, that earlier the prime minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the president Vladimir Putin of the offer on personnel structure of the government. Dvorkovich, who served as deputy prime minister in the old Medvedev government, did not enter the new cabinet, and his topics were distributed among other deputy chairmen.