Vincenzo Trani

Trani was born on May 18, 1974, in Naples, Italy. He comes from a family of Italian bankers. His father served as the head of international department of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, an Italian bank which is the world's oldest bank.[2]

He is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Institute of International Trade, Economics and Law with a degree in events economics and jurisprudence.[3]

Prior to his arrival in Russia, Trani served in the Italian Army[2] and was employed as a banker hailing different positions at Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.[4]

Trani arrived in Russia in 2001 when he saw an advertisement in the Moscow Times about the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).[4] He started out as a senior advisor of small and midsize business development and then as the EBRD representative of the board of directors.[4] He later became the deputy director general of KMB Bank in Russia.[2]

Trani founded the company, Mikro Kapital launched in 2008, a firm which lends loans to small scale and medium-sized businesses in Russia, East Europe and CIS countries.[5]

In 2015, Trani founded the car-sharing service Delimobil.[6][7][8][9]

From 2019 to 2022 he was President of the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce[10][11][12][13] In March 2021, The Guardian reported that Trani had helped close the deal on an arrangement in which ten million doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine would be produced in Italy for export to non-EU countries by the end of 2021.[12]

Trani is the recipient of the Order of the Star of Italy.[14]

In 2009, he was appointed as the Honorary Consul of Belarus in Naples.[15][16] The term as consul expired in 2020 and has not been renewed.

• Italy–Russia relations
• Delimobil
• Carsharing in Moscow

• Official website