Founder, Chair of the Board of DirectorsUWC Dilijan College
Veronika Zonabend is the founding partner and the chair of the Board of Governors of UWC Dilijan College in Armenia. She is actively involved in philanthropy and together with her husband Ruben Vardanyan she is the founder of RVVZ Foundation that implements philanthropic sustainable development projects in Russia and Armenia.
Earlier in the 2000s she was an entrepreneur and undertook projects within diverse sectors such as Hospitality, Film Distribution and Production. Among these was the co-production of “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky”, a film that closed the Cannes Festival in 2009.
Prior to that, she worked for several years in the banking sector, becoming the Deputy Head of Foreign Exchange Department of Tveruniversal Bank in 1993. She started her career as an Engineer at the Research Institute of Avionics in Russia, in 1990.
Veronika graduated with honors from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1990, she studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science specialising in "Banking and Finance" in 1994-1995.
Awarded the Order of Friendship in October 2014 by directive of the President of Armenia for fostering educational development and international collaboration in science and education, as well as for substantial efforts in building the international school in Dilijan and implementing academic programs.