Timakova Natalya Alexandrovna

Timakova Natalya Alexandrovna

Natalia Timakova - Press Secretary of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev from May 2012 to September 2018.

Education

1998 graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. He speaks English.

Career

1995-1999

• In 1995-1997 - correspondent of the policy department of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.
• In 1996, she covered the course of the presidential campaign of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin.
• In 1997-1999 - correspondent of the policy department of Kommersant Publishing House.
• From March to October 1999 - political observer of the Interfax news agency.
• Since October 1999 - Acting Press Secretary of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and at the same time - Deputy Director of the Department of Government Information.
• On November 11, 1999, after Mikhail Yuryevich Kozhukhov took over as press secretary of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, she retained the post of deputy director of the Department of Government Information.

2000-2004

• Since 2000 - employee of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation:
• In 2000-2002 - Deputy Head of the Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation.
• In 2002-2004 - First Deputy Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation - Head of the Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation.

2004-2012

• In 2004-2008 - Head of the Press Service and Information Department of the President of the Russian Federation
• Since May 13, 2008 - Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.
• Since May 22, 2012 - press secretary of the head of the government of the Russian Federation.
• Natalya Timakova quit on September 17, 2018 and went to work at Vnesheconombank.

2023: Appointment as Development Director of the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo" after leaving the post of deputy chairman of the ВЭБ.РФ

Deputy Chairman ВЭБ.РФ Natalya Timakova from March 1, 2023 went to work in, Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo" where she took the position of development director. According to Timakova, "it's time to try yourself in a new direction." At the post in the business school "" Skolkovo she will be responsible for the development of new educational projects and the strategy of the organization "in the current conditions," writes with reference RBC to a source in Skolkovo. The interlocutor of the publication considered Timakova's transition to a new position logical, since she has been a member of the board of directors of the management school for 4.5 years, and ВЭБ.РФ is one of the main creditors of the organization.

Interesting facts

• In 2012, Natalya Timakova took third place in the list of the most influential women in Russia, compiled by the Ekho Moskvy radio station with the support of Interfax, RIA Novosti and Ogonyok magazine. The first place was given to the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, the second - to the singer Alla Pugacheva. The first five leaders were closed by the wife of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Svetlana and Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina.

• In 1999, Timakova was one of the authors of the book "In the first person. Conversations with Vladimir Putin "(co-authors - Kommersant journalists Andrei Kolesnikov and Natalia Gevorkyan) - a collection of memoirs with the first person of the state and the first lady, as well as family friends and Putin's colleagues.

Links

• Ranking of the most influential women in Russia
• Article about Natalia Timakova in Lentapedia