Chubais Anatoly Borisovich

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is the general director of the state corporation "Rusnano," the former chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia. Anatoly Chubais for many years remains one of the most influential people in Russian business.

Anatoly Chubais has been the general director of the state corporation Rusnano since September 2008. From 1998 to 2008, he served as Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia. Actual First Class State Counselor. Member of the Supreme Council of the Right Cause party created in November 2008, in the past - a member of the federal political council and one of the founders of the Union of Right Forces party.

Biography, career

Anatoly Chubais was born on June 16, 1955 in Belarus in the city of Borisov in a military family.

In 1977 he graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute. Palmiro Togliatti (LIEI).

In 1977-1982 - engineer, assistant of LIEI.

In 1982-1990 - Associate Professor of the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute.

In 1983 he defended his thesis on the topic: "Research and development of planning methods for improving management in industry scientific and technical organizations." He speaks English.

In 1984-1987, he was the leader of an informal circle of "young economists," which was created by a group of graduates of economic universities in the city.

1987: Co-founder of the Perestroika club

In 1987, the Perestroika club was founded in Leningrad with the active participation of A. Chubais, which from the very beginning set as its goal the promotion of democratic ideas to wide circles of the intelligentsia.

1990: Advisor to the Mayor of Leningrad Anatoly Sobchak

In 1990, Anatoly Chubais was appointed deputy, then first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, chief economic adviser to the mayor of Leningrad, Anatoly Sobchak.

1991: Chairman of the State Committee for State Property Management

Since November 1991 - Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management.

1992: First Deputy Chairman of the Government. Development of the privatization program

June 1, 1992 - Appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Economic and Financial Policy. In 1992, the GKI under the leadership of A. Chubais developed a privatization program and carried out its technical training.

1993: Co-organizer of the election bloc "Choice of Russia," State Duma deputy

June 1993 - A. Chubais took part in the creation of the election bloc "Choice of Russia."

In December 1993, he was elected to the State Duma from the electoral association "Choice of Russia."

1994: First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation

November 1994 - January 1996 - First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for Economic and Financial Policy.

April 1995 - appointed manager of the Russian Federation in international financial organizations.

February 1996 - dismissed from the post of manager of the Russian Federation in international financial organizations.

In February 1996, he created the Civil Society Foundation, on the basis of which the analytical group of the campaign headquarters of B.N. Yeltsin began work.

In June 1996, he created the Center for the Protection of Private Property Foundation.

1996: Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation

July 15, 1996 appointed Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.

In 1996, A.B. Chubais was awarded the qualification category of Valid State Adviser of the 1st class.

1997: First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and Minister of Finance

On March 7, 1997, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and at the same time Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

In 1997, he was recognized by Euromoney magazine on the basis of an expert survey of the world's leading financiers as the best finance minister of the year.

In April 1997, he was appointed manager of the Russian Federation at the IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and the multilateral agency for investment guarantees.

May 1997 - May 1998 - Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

November 1997 was dismissed from the post of Minister of Finance, retaining the post of First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

1998: Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia

March 23, 1998 dismissed from the post of First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

On April 4, 1998, at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of RAO UES of Russia, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the company.

On April 30, 1998, he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of RAO UES of Russia.

June 17, 1998 appointed Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with international financial organizations.

On August 28, 1998, he was dismissed from the post of Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Financial Organizations.

December 1998 - A.B. Chubais joined the Organizing Committee of the Just Cause coalition and was elected to the Coordinating Committee of the Coalition Organizing Committee. Anatoly Chubais headed the commission on the organizational work of the Coordination Council.

July 28, 1999 - at a meeting of the Council of the National Association of Stock Market Participants (NAUFOR) following a survey of more than 300 NAUFOR member companies, A.B. Chubais was awarded the title "The person who made the greatest contribution to the development of the Russian stock market."

In February 2000, at a meeting of the Government Commission of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with the European Union, he was appointed co-chairman of the Round Table of Industrialists of Russia and the EU from the Russian side.

In May 2000, at the constituent congress of the All-Russian political organization "Union of Right Forces" he was elected co-chairman of the Coordination Council.

In July 2000, he became president of the CIS Electricity Council. He was re-elected to this post in 2001-2007.

In October 2000, he was elected to the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers).

On May 26, 2001, at the founding congress of the Union of Right Forces party, he was elected Co-Chairman and member of the Federal Political Council.

In 2002, he graduated from the Faculty of Advanced Training of Teachers and Specialists of the Moscow Energy Institute in the field of "Problems of Modern power." He defended the final work on the topic "Prospects for the development of hydropower in Russia."

September 25, 2003 became an honorary doctor of St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics.

On January 24, 2004, he resigned as Co-Chairman of the Union of Right Forces party. Elected to the Federal Political Council of the party.

2008: Rusnano CEO

On June 30, 2008, he completed his work as Chairman of the Management Board of RAO UES of Russia

On September 22, 2008, by presidential decree, he was appointed General Director of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation.

"You could say I'm a young, aspiring nano... My predecessors have done a very great job over the year, and my task is not just to continue it, but to make sure that by 2015 Russia , in the field of research and production of products based on nanotechnology, it reaches the level of 900 billion rubles. That's almost a trillion. A trillion for me is a familiar figure. In almost a trillion attracted private investments, I completed my work at RAO UES. Now in the country the volume of production using nanotechnology is several billion rubles. Making almost a trillion of them in 7 years is a serious task. "

In November 2008, he joined the Supreme Council of the Right Cause political party.

2017: Salary 179 million rubles per year

The average salary of Anatoly Chubais in 2015-2020, when he headed Rusnano, was 120 million rubles a year (in total - 714 million over the past six years). Until 2014, it was not a secret - 20 million rubles a year, but then the data was classified. In 2015, Chubais's salary doubled to 42-45 million rubles, and then four more times, up to 179 million rubles a year (15 million a month).

2019: The estate's return to Peredelkino

Construction of the estate began back in 2012.

In 2013, Russian officials were banned from owning property abroad. After that, Chubais sold the Swiss company SFO Concept AG, created by him to manage his assets, to the young financier Ilya Suchkov. It was for this company that two years later a plot and real estate in Peredelkino were registered.

Chubais had reason to trust Ilya Suchkov. His brother Igor Suchkov was an adviser to Chubais for 17 years, and his father Vasily Suchkov worked with Chubais at the State Property Committee.

Three years later, Suchkov designed the project for himself and began to blackmail the head of Rusnano - he offered him to buy the house twice as expensive as the original cost and threatened to publish secretly made recordings of business negotiations.

In 2019, the head of the state corporation Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, regained ownership of 1.5 hectares of land and a mansion in the village of Peredelkino with the help of the structure of businessman Boris Mints, who left for London, Open Media found out.

2020

Entrance to the Board of Directors of AFK Sistema

At the end of June 2020, the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais joined the board of directors of AFK Sistema, the updated composition of which was approved as part of the annual meeting. Read more here.

COVID-19 coronavirus infection

On October 7, 2020, Anatoly Chubais announced that he had contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus. The head of Rusnano wrote about this on his Facebook page.

There is a slight fever and cough. He switched to self-isolation, but the performance is completely preserved, - explained Chubais.

According to him, the test for COVID-19 was positive after a business trip. At the same time, he did not specify exactly where he went.

The head of Rusnano noted that he considers his infection with COVID-19 to be confirmation of the correctness of the decision to transfer the company's employees to a remote mode of operation.

You cannot underestimate the danger, take care of yourself, wear masks and gloves, "Chubais said, addressing subscribers on his Facebook page.[1]

Commenting on the impact of the new coronavirus on Russia, Anatoly Chubais previously expressed the opinion that the blow to the Russian economy will be measured in trillions of rubles.

The budget system in Russia is truly protected, but the budget is only part of the economy, it is 20% of it. In my understanding, the blow to the economy as a whole will not be measured in numbers of hundreds of billions, but in trillions, "he said.

In his opinion, the idea of ​ ​ a number of countries to make payments to those in need in connection with the current crisis situation is permissible for the Russian Federation, but "requires a selective approach."

We have categories that really need, really need support, "he explained.

In March 2020, Rusnano transferred 75% of its employees to remote work. The share of employees for remote work by October 7, 2020 is not called. According to the Deputy Board of Rusnano Vladimir Avetisyan, the office of Rusnano has been working remotely for a long time and successfully. And since March, Anatoly Chubais has not held a single face-to-face meeting with my participation, only via video conferencing.

Resignation from the post of head of Rusnano

On December 2, 2020, it became known that President Vladimir Putin offered the post of head of Rusnano to the first deputy chairman of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission, Sergei Kulikov. The current head of the corporation, Anatoly Chubais, who has led it since its creation in 2011, will leave his post.

In November, the Russian government approved the concept of reorganizing the structure of development institutions, within which Anatoly Chubais is waiting for another appointment. Information about what kind of position he can have not yet arrived. The media reported that he was offered to leave his post and "engage in the Arctic." It is considered a key region of Russia, whose importance will only increase during global warming. Chubais himself said that he loves the north, but^[2]does not intend to become the "head of the Arctic"^[3]Read more here.

2021: Anatoly Chubais became a shareholder of AFK Sistema

On July 13, 2021, it became known that Anatoly Chubais, Special Representative of the President of Russia for Sustainable Development, became a shareholder of AFK Sistema for the first time. Vedomosti writes about this with reference to a document published by the Center for Business Information Disclosure.

Chubais Anatoly Borisovich. The size of the share of ordinary shares of such a joint-stock company owned by this person after the change: 0.0038%, - it says there.

Remuneration in the form of ordinary shares of AFK Sistema was paid to members of the Board of Directors following the results of corporate 2020-2021.

As of the close of July 12, 2021 at the Moscow Exchange, the value of the AFC ordinary share amounted to 30.9 rubles. Thus, the cost of Chubais's stake is about 11.3 million rubles (a total of 9.65 billion shares were issued).

Anatoly Chubais is also on the board of directors of AFK Sistema. When asked how attracting "political heavyweights" to the board of directors helps the corporation solve business problems, the main shareholder of the state corporation Vladimir Yevtushenkov in an interview with RBC replied that strategies are often discussed at the board meeting, "which are associated with a very large-scale vision of life, where the economy is intertwined with politics, with people, personnel."

If a person is not sharpened for a wide outlook, for a wide vision of the picture of the world, he will definitely make a mistake. On the board of directors of Sistema, people who have lived most of their lives have seen many things and are able to strategically assess someone else's logic and bring something new. They are really valuable for AFK Sistema, "he said.

By July 2021, Vladimir Yevtushenkov himself owns a 59.2% stake in AFK Sistema. Another 9.3% of securities are owned by AFK Group companies, members of the Board of Directors and Management of Sistema, the remaining part is in free circulation.^[4][5][6]

2022

Resignation from the Board of Directors of Sistema

On April 21, 2022, Anatoly Chubais resigned from the boards of directors of AFK Sistema and its portfolio company Electrozavod. The company said he left of his own free will.

Moving to Italy

According to media reports in April 2022, Anatoly Chubais is in Italy and has no plans to return back to Russia. He flew to Italy on a private plane.

Moving to Israel

In early May 2022, Anatoly Chubais flew with his wife to Israel. According to eyewitnesses, he could fly in on a night flight. After passing the border, he, accompanied by security, left the airport.

Resuscitation in Switzerland with Guillain-Barré syndrome

In July 2022, Anatoly Chubais was resuscitated in Switzerland with Guillain-Barré syndrome. His arms and legs began to be taken away. According to Chubais himself, he is in a state of moderate severity.

Return to Israel

2023: Obtaining Israeli citizenship

By May 2023, Anatoly Chubais received a teudat-zeut at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nof HaGalil and became an Israeli citizen by issuing documents in a small town on the periphery of the country. It is reported that Chubais is Jewish by his mother.

Quotes, interviews

• Anatoly Chubais: Interview with the newspaper Die Welt.

• Anatoly Chubais, General Director of Rusnano: "I really want to repay debts" - an interview with the Izvestia newspaper

Other activities, hobbies

Favorite vacation - active: a trip to the forest, with a fire, tents and mandatory cooking on fire. In his youth he was engaged in water tourism, kayaked along the rivers of the Kola Peninsula, sailed along Ladoga. He loves harsh nature - forests and lakes of Karelia, Kamchatka with its geysers and volcanoes.

In recent years, he has been trying to spend his vacation where he is not known by sight, in particular, in the north, To Europe by renting a car.

Of the sports, he prefers those that require not so much strength as dexterity and good coordination of movements: in winter - alpine skiing and snowmobile, in summer - water skiing and scooter. He plays table tennis.

From a young age he loves the author's song: Galich, Vysotsky, Vizbor, Sukhanov, Nikitins and many others. A lot of songs know by heart. In addition - "Beatles," some Russian rock bands, in particular, "DDT" and "Time Machine," jazz.

Prefers Russian cinema.

Interesting facts

Anatoly Chubais and Bulat Okudzhava, despite the age difference, were very close. A little-known fact: the last poem that Okudzhava wrote before his death was dedicated to Chubais.

On the personal website of Anatoly Chubais, there is a section containing humorous materials (anecdotes, cartoons, ditties, poems, stories, etc.) related to him.

Awards

He has three thanks from the President of Russia (received in 1995, 1997 and 1998).

In December 2001, he was awarded the International Union of Economists with an honorary diploma "International Recognition" for his great contribution to the development of Russia based on the application of international best practices in the implementation of modern methods of organizing management, economics, finance and production processes.

Family

Married. From the first marriage there is a son and a daughter.

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