NATIONAL COUNCIL ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Chairman of the Board, Institute of Contemporary Development

Alexander N. Shokhin was born in 1951 in the Arkhangelsk Region. Graduated from the Economical Faculty of the Moscow State University in 1974.

From 1974 to 1987 he worked with several research institutions associated with the USSR Academy of Sciences, the USSR State Planning Committee and the USSR State Labor Committee.

From 1987–1991 Mr Shokhin was Economic Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Head of the Department of International Economic Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Twice, in 1991–1994 and in 1998, he held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. In 1991–1994 he also held positions of Minister of Labor, Minister of Economics, Chairman of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development, and Russian governor at the IMF and the World Bank. On behalf of the Russian government he represented Russia in the international negotiations on Soviet-era debt. Additionally, he represented the President of the Russian Federation in Russia’s relations with the G7 countries.

From 1994 to 2002 Mr Shokhin was a Deputy of the State Duma, where he occupied the posts of First Vice Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the Duma party bloc ‘Our Home is Russia’, Head of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Capital Markets. From 2002 to 2005 Mr Shokhin was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Investment Group “Renaissance Capital”.

Since 2005 – President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

In 2005 he became a member of the RF Public Chamber and the Chairman of its Commission for Competitiveness, Economic Development and Entrepreneurship Issues.

Mr Shokhin is a member of several deliberative bodies under the RF President and RF Government, including Presidential Council for Priority National Projects and Demographic Policies, Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the RF Government, Governmental Commission on Industry, Transport and Technology, Governmental Commission on Administrative Reform and Advisory Council on Foreign Investments. He is also Chairman of the National Association of Regional Agencies for Investments and Development of the South Federal District.

Mr Shokhin is a Board member of the Oil Company “Lukoil” and the “Eurasia Drilling Company”, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the IG “Renaissance Capital”, President of the State University – Higher School of Economics.

He is Doctor of Economics, Professor.