Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev
Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev ( Russian Александр Иванович Медведев ; born August 14, 1955 in Shakhtyorsk on the island of Sakhalin ) is a Russian manager and sports official . From August 2002 to February 2019 he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian energy company Gazprom and General Director of Gazprom Export GmbH (“Газпром экспорт”).
Life
Medvedev graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1978. From 1989 to 1991 he worked as director of Donau-Bank AG in Vienna and from 1998 to 2002 he was director of IMAG Investment Management and Advisory Group GmbH in Vienna.
In 2009 he led the negotiations for Gazprom on gas supplies through Ukraine to Western Europe.
Medvedev speaks German without an accent. He is not closely related to the former Russian president and former Gazprom supervisory board chairman Dmitry Medvedev .
Medvedev was also president of the Continental Hockey League between 2008 and 2014 and he was president of the ice hockey club SKA Saint Petersburg . In addition, he was a member of the supervisory board of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation and represented it as a member of the Council of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF .
In February 2019 he became President and General Director of Zenit St. Petersburg . Medvedev left Gazprom at the end of February 2019.
Appreciation
- 2009: "TIME 100" "List of Most Influential People", "Builders & Titans" (list of the hundred most influential people of 2009) - Time Magazine
- 2014: Order of Honor
Web links
- Data on Alexander Medvedev on the Gazprom website
- Profile about Alexander Medvedev on the website of the IIHF (English)
- An encounter with Gazprom Vice President Alexander Medvedev ZEIT ONLINE report from November 26, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk , January 6, 2008
- ^ Mathias Brüggmann: Russia's major corporation is coming under pressure , Handelsblatt , January 30, 2009
- ↑ Gazprom fires its deputy chief Alexander Medvedev . Handelsblatt, February 26, 2019.
- ↑ Gazprom Vice President Medvedev on Time List of 100 Most Influential People , RIA Novosti , May 1, 2009
- ↑ Dmitri Trenin: Alexander Medvedev , Time Magazine , April 30, 2009
- ↑ Путин наградил экс-президента КХЛ Медведева орденом Почета за вклад в развитие хоккея
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Medvedev, Alexander Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Медведев, Александр Иванович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian manager and ice hockey official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shakhtyorsk |