Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev (, ; born 14 August 1955) is the current Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company

Gazprom PJSC Gazprom ( rus, Газпром, , ɡɐsˈprom) is a Russian State-owned enterprise, majority state-owned multinational Energy industry, energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. The Gazprom name is a contract ...

and since February 2019 he is the director general and president of the football club Zenit,

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. Medvedev also served as Director-General of Gazprom's export arm Gazprom Export from 2006 until 2014. He is a member of the Coordination Committee of

RosUkrEnergo RosUkrEnergo is a Switzerland, Swiss-registered venture company that transports natural gas from Turkmenistan to Eastern Europe, East European countries. 50% of the company is owned by Gazprom, through its subsidiary Swiss-registered Rosgas Holdin ...

and a member of the shareholders' committee of

Nord Stream AG Nord Stream AG is a consortium for construction and operation of the Nord Stream 1 submarine pipeline between Vyborg in Russia and Greifswald in Germany. The consortium was incorporated in Zug, Switzerland, on 30 November 2005. Since the first g ...

, and was the first president of the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; ) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs. It was considered in ...

(KHL), serving from 2008 until his resignation in 2014.

Background

In 1978, he graduated from the

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; , also known as PhysTech), is a public university, public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares specialists in theoretical physics, theoretical and applied physics, ...

. From 1978 to 1989 he worked at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. In 1989–1991 he was a director of the Soviet owned Donau Bank AG in Vienna and a managing director of bank's subsidiary company Inter Trade Consult GmbH. There are speculations that he had an undercover

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job because he worked at Donau Bank at the same time as Andrei Akimov, another KGB officer and now

Gazprombank Gazprombank (), or GPB (JSC), is a private-owned Russian bank, the third largest bank in the country by assets. Since November 2014, Nikolai Shamalov#Yuri Shamalov, Yuri Shamalov's Gazfond is its largest shareholder. Gazprombank is one of the m ...

's chief. From 1991 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2002 he was director of the Austrian IMAG Investment Management & Advisory Group GmbH. Between 1997 and 1998 he was a vice president of the Eastern oil company (Восточная нефтяная компания) in Moscow. Since August 2002, Medvedev is the Director-General of Gazprom Export (former Gazeksport) and the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Gazprom. Between 2008 and 2014, Alexander Medvedev served as president of the

. He is also the president of

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hockey club and Russia's representative to the

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Council. In December 2008, ''

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'' reported that at one point Medvedev predicted Gazprom's market value would reach $1 trillion by 2014. In 2009, Medvedev stated an interest in acquiring one of three unspecified

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

franchises. In May, he claimed that his representatives spoke with NHL Deputy Commissioner

Bill Daly William Lawrence Daly III (born May 1, 1964) is an American attorney and the current deputy commissioner and chief legal officer of the National Hockey League (NHL) under Commissioner Gary Bettman. He is also a Hockey Hall of Fame board member ...

, who refused to accept Russian ownership in the league. Daly denied ever being in contact with Medvedev and asserted that the NHL does not discriminate on the basis of nationality among its prospective team owners. Medvedev has played key roles in Gazprom's opaque intermediaries such as

, Centrex Group, Gazprom Germania, and YugoRosGaz.Bulgaria's "Overgas," a Russian Spy in Canada, and Gazprom
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 30 February 13, 2009

References

External links

Biography of Alexander Medvedev, Gazprom website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Medvedev, Alexander 1955 births Living people People from Sakhalin Oblast Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Kontinental Hockey League Gazprom people FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Russian football chairmen and investors Soviet bankers