Vasily Pozdyshev

Vasily Pozdyshev

Senior Advisor
Financial Stability Institute (FSI)

Vasily joined the BIS in July 2020. He started his career in the banking industry in 1995 as a financial controller at Compagnie Bancaire (Paribas), then worked for almost 14 years for the BNP Paribas financial group in various management positions. After being the head ofthe EU TACIS project "Banking Supervision and Accounting" in Russia, in 2012 he joined the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (CBR) as the Director for Banking Regulation, and was appointed the CBR's Deputy Governor in 2014. In 2015 he became a member of the CBR Executive Board and was responsible for banking regulation, banking supervision and financial resolution. During his term as CBR Executive Board Member, Vasily also served as Board Member and Chair of Strategic Committee of the Deposit Insurance Agency and Board Member of the National Council for Appraisals and Valuations. He was a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 2016 to 2020. Vasily is a graduate of the Moscow State University (International Economics), University Paris – IX Dauphine (Financial Management), and post-graduate in European Studies at Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Strasbourg (ENA – INSP, CHEE, Promotion 2010).

Fields of interest

  • Banking Supervision and Regulation
  • Crisis management
  • Financial Inclusion
  • CBDCs and Crypto assets