Elena Bunina

Russian CEO

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Elena Igorevna Bunina (Russian: Елена Игоревна Бунина; born 12 May 1976) is a Russian-Israeli businesswoman. She was the CEO of Yandex from 2017 to 2022. She resigned her position two weeks early. Following her resignation, she immigrated to Israel following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

As of 2022, she is a professor in the mathematics department of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and a scientific advisor at the Y-Data school of data science in Israel.^[6]^[7]

Early life and education

Elena Igorevna Bunina was born May 12, 1976, in Moscow, Soviet Russia, and is of Jewish background.^[5] Her father Igor Bunin [ru] was a historian.^[8]

Bunina finished Moscow State School 57, where she later taught mathematical analysis.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[1] Bunina graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the Moscow State University in 1998.^{[citation needed]} In 2001, she got a PhD degree in Mathematics at the same faculty.^[9]

Personal life

Bunina is married, and has four children.^[12]^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b "Report: Jewish CEO of 'Russia's Google' leaves country for Israel over war". The Times of Israel.
^ "Russia's Yandex head steps down two weeks early". Reuters.com. 2 April 2022.
^ Iyengar, Rishi (7 April 2022). "Why Russia might struggle to maintain its digital iron curtain". CNN.
^ "Russia's Yandex head steps down two weeks early".
^ ^a ^b "Yandex CEO Relocates to Israel over Ukraine: 'Cannot Work for a Country at War'". Haaretz.
^ "Bunina Elena | Department of Mathematics". math.biu.ac.il. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
^ "Team". ydata.co.il. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
^ "Умер политолог Игорь Бунин". Ведомости (in Russian). Retrieved 24 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b "staff:bunina | Кафедра высшей алгебры". halgebra.math.msu.su. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
^ "Moscow State 57th School". sch57.ru. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
^ "Russia's Yandex head steps down two weeks early".
^ "Биография гендиректора компании "Яндекс" в России Елены Буниной - ТАСС". TACC. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
^ "«Можно работать хоть в гамаке»: гендиректор «Яндекса» о том, как компания находит лучших сотрудников, и о роли женщин в IT". Forbes.ru (in Russian). 15 March 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2023.