Andrei Alexandrovich Fursenko
Andrei Alexandrowitsch Fursenko ( Russian Андрей Александрович Фурсенко ; born July 17, 1949 in Leningrad ) is a Russian politician and was Minister of Education and Science in the Government of Russia from 2004 to 2012 . He is considered a member of the St. Petersburg Connection .
Life
Andrei Fursenko grew up as the son of the well-known historian Alexander Fursenko in Leningrad, where he studied from 1966 to 1971 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Zhdanov State University . After graduating, he worked at the Joffe Institute of Physics and Technology at the Soviet Academy of Sciences , where he worked, among other things, as a scientific employee and later as head of a laboratory and executive employee. In 1990 Fursenko obtained a doctorate in physics and mathematics.
In 1991 - the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union - Fursenko left the Ioffe Institute and went into the nascent private sector. There he was from 1991 to 1993 vice head of the company "Center for promising technologies and work areas" and then until 2001 deputy head of the "Regional Foundation for Scientific and Technical Development" in Saint Petersburg, which among other things deals with the acquisition of investors for various regional High technology projects. In 1995 Fursenko joined the then ruling party Our House Russia . He achieved a political rise.
In 2001 Fursenko was appointed to the Russian government for the first time : From December 2001 to June 2002 he was Deputy Minister for Industry, Science and Technology in the Kassyanov cabinet , then first Deputy Minister in the same department. From December 2003 he held the post of minister on a provisional basis until he became head of the newly formed 'Ministry of Education and Science' in March 2004 when the cabinet was reorganized under Fradkow . In this office, which he also held under Fradkov's successor, Subkov and later under Vladimir Putin , Fursenko was, among other things, one of the main initiators of the reform in the Russian school system that was carried out between 2007 and 2009, which now includes the Abitur exams and the university entrance exams in a nationwide manner uniform form and grading scale (so-called uniform state examination ). As head of the education department, he was a member of the presidential advisory board for the implementation of the national projects of Russia .
His successor in the new government under Dmitri Medvedev was Dmitri Liwanow .
Fursenko is the author of over 100 scientific publications, including on innovation work in technological areas. He is married and has a son. His younger brother Sergei (* 1954), a sports official and former manager in the Gazprom group, has been head of the Russian National Football Association since 2010 .
On March 20, 2014, in the wake of the 2014 Crimean crisis, the US government ( Office of Foreign Assets Control - OFAC) announced that Fursenko and nineteen other men had been added to the Specially Designated Nationals List . The bank balances of SDNs are blocked; US citizens are not allowed to do business with them.
Web links
- Biography at russiaprofile.org ( Memento from January 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Biography on the website of the Russian Government (Russian) ( Memento of May 2, 2012 on the Internet Archive )
- Biography at Lentapedia (Russian)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fursenko, Andrei Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Фурсенко, Андрей Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |