Len Blavatnik

Len Blavatnik is a major American industrialist with global interests in three sectors: natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, and real estate. He is the founder and chair of Access Industries, a privately held U.S. industrial group through which he controls his holdings. Incorporated in 1986, Access Industries is today an international industrial concern with strategic investments in the U.S., Europe, and South America.

Mr. Blavatnik serves as a director of numerous companies in the Access portfolio of investments, including LyondellBasell Industries (the world’s third-largest independent chemical company), TNK-BP (a vertically integrated oil company), and UC RUSAL (the largest vertically integrated aluminum producer in the world).

In addition to corporate directorships, he sits on academic boards at Cambridge University, Harvard Business School, and Tel Aviv University. He is also vice chair of the Kennan Council at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. An active philanthropist, Mr. Blavatnik also sits on, inter alia, the board of directors of the 92nd Street Y in New York, the White Nights Foundation of America, and the Center for Jewish History in New York.

Raised in Russia, he immigrated to the United States with his family in 1978 and became a U.S. citizen in 1981. He received his master’s degree from Columbia University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.