Alexander Jakowlewitsch Liwschiz

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Alexander Jakowlewitsch Liwschiz ( Russian Александр Яковлевич Лившиц ; born September 6, 1946 in Berlin ; † April 26, 2013 in Moscow ) was a Russian economist , politician and business manager who was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation between 1996 and 1997 and from 2001 to 2001 on his death was Vice President of RUSAL , the world's largest manufacturer of aluminum .

Life

Family origins and activities in the Soviet Union

Liwschiz was the son of Jakow Lasarewitsch Liwschiz, an officer of the Red Army and a nephew of Eduard Lasarewitsch Liwschiz , who was at times Vice Minister for Road Traffic and Highways of the Soviet Union and was shot on November 24, 1950 as part of the Stalinist purges .

After completing his school education, he studied at the Academy of Automation and Telemechanics in Moscow and became a member of the CPSU in 1966 , of which he was a member until it was banned after the August coup in Moscow in 1991. In the 1970s, he completed postgraduate studies in the field of cybernetics at the GV Plekhanov - Department of Economics in Moscow. After completing his studies, in 1974 he worked at the Institute for Machine Tools , where he was head of the Political Economy Department until 1992 .

Employed by Boris Yeltsin, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Russian Federation, he became Deputy Head of the Analytical Center of President Boris Yeltsin's Presidential Administration in April 1992 and, as such, had also been a member of a working group for the analytical provisions on constitutional reform since September 1993. Subsequently, Liwschiz acted from March 2, 1994 to August 22, 1996 as head of the presidential administration and economic advisor to the president.

On August 14, 1996, President Yeltsin appointed him one of the Deputy Prime Ministers in the government of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin ; Liwschiz held this office until March 17, 1997. At the same time, he succeeded Vladimir Georgievich Pansov and became Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and held this post until March 17, 1997, when he was replaced by Anatoly Borisovich Chubais .

Subsequently, Liwschiz returned to the presidential administration and was deputy head of the presidential administration between March 1997 and August 1998 and, at the same time, since July 1997 also a representative of President Yeltsin in the National Banking Council. He resigned from these offices in the wake of a financial crisis. Since August 1998 he has been the head of the journal Экономическая политика, published by the Presidential Academy for National Economy and Public Administration .

At the same time he took over the moderation of the program "Ask Liwschiz" in November 1998 at the television station NTW and wrote a weekly column for the daily newspaper Izvestia for ten years until 2008 .

In June 1999, President Yeltsin appointed him Minister for Special Tasks of the President for the Group of Eight and held that position until the end of Yeltsin's term on December 31, 1999.

For his many years of service he was awarded the Order of Friendship , among other things .

Economic manager

After leaving the government, Liwschiz switched to business as a manager and in 2000 initially became chairman of the board of directors of the financial institution Российский кредит . On July 2, 2001, he became Director of International Projects and Special Projects and Deputy General Director of RUSAL, which has been the world's largest manufacturer of aluminum since the merger with the Siberian-Urals Aluminum Company (SUAL) in 2006. He held the office of Vice President of this company until his death.

Publications

  • Введение в рыночную экономику , 1996 (Introduction to the Market Economy)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New faces, old problems ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Handelszeitung from August 29, 1996
  2. ↑ Will Yeltsin dismiss his prime minister? Faltering reforms as reason - Kremlin rejects Izvestia report . In: Die Welt of February 27, 1997
  3. ↑ Yeltsin dismisses the government / Reformer Jawlinski rejects future cabinetLast campaign against "red directors"? . In: Berliner Zeitung of March 12, 1997
  4. ↑ Alexander Liwschiz . In: Der Spiegel (No. 35/1998)
  5. ↑ The trust is gone. Yeltsin's ex-economic advisor Alexander Liwschiz on the Russian financial crisis . In: Der Spiegel (No. 35/1998)
  6. ^ President stands by Prime Minister Kiriyenko. Opposition wants Yeltsin to resign . In: Wiener Zeitung from August 19, 1998
  7. ↑ Liwschiz now G-8 representative . In: Neues Deutschland from June 29, 1999
  8. ↑ Economy: Conversation with Alexander Liwschiz, Russian representative for the G 7 . In: Der Tagesspiegel from November 12, 1999
  9. ^ After the first US charges in the money laundering affair: Russia fears for loans . In: Wiener Zeitung of October 7, 1999
  10. ↑ Russian aluminum giant wants to increase market value to 100 billion ( Memento from December 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). In: International Business Times, October 24, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Liwschiz, Alexander Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лившиц, Александр Яковлевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian economist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2013
Place of death Moscow