Kirill Alexandrovich Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), a $10 billion sovereign wealth fund created by the Russian government to co-invest in the Russian economy. Dmitriev was born in Soviet Ukraine, later completing his education and jumpstarting his career in the United States between the ages of 14 and 27. Upon moving to Russia, he expanded his financier activities before helming RDIF. His wife Natalia Popova, a deputy director of the NGO
Innopraktika Foundation, works for and is a very close friend of Putin's younger daughter Katerina Tikhonova. In February 2022, both Kirill Dmitriev and RDIF were sanctioned by the United States Treasury, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Under Mr. Dmitriev's leadership RDIF claims to be the first state owned Russian company to call for diplomatic solution and peace in Ukraine.