The Russian Direct Investment Fund, a $10bn sovereign private equity fund, has announced the composition of its supervisory board. They are; Alexei Ulyukaev, first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation; Sergei Ivanov, chief of staff to the president of Russia; Elvira Nabiullina, minister of economic development of the Russian Federation; Vladimir Dmitriev, chairman of Vnesheconombank; Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive of the Russian direct investment fund; Josh Lerner, the Jacob H Schiff professor at Harvard Business School and Laurent Vigier, director of European and International Affairs at Caisse des Dépôts.