Elena Igorevna Bunina (russian: Елена Игоревна Бунина; born 12 May 1976) is a Russian businesswoman. She was the CEO of Yandex from 2017 to 2022. She resigned her position two weeks early. Following her resignation, she moved to Israel following the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

. As of 2022, she is a professor in the mathematics department of Bar-Ilan University and a scientific advisor at the Y-Data school of data science in Israel.

Biography

Early life and education

Elena Bunina was born May 12, 1976, in Moscow, and is Jewish. She finished Moscow State School 57, where she later taught mathematical analysis. Bunina graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the Moscow State University in 1998. In 2001, she got a PhD degree in Mathematics at the same faculty.

Family

Elena Bunina's father, , was a historian. Bunina is married, she has four children.

References

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