Alexander Zhukov
Александр Жуков
Zhukov in 2018
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma
Assumed office
21 December 2011
In office
29 December 2003 – 10 March 2004
Member of the State Duma from United Russia's Party List
Assumed office
21 December 2011
President of the Russian Olympic Committee
In office
20 May 2010 – 2 May 2018
Preceded byLeonid Tyagachyov
Succeeded byStanislav Pozdnyakov
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office
9 March 2004 – 20 December 2011
Prime MinisterMikhail Fradkov
Viktor Zubkov
Vladimir Putin
Member of the State Duma
In office
12 December 1993 – 10 March 2004
ConstituencyPreobrazhensky
Personal details
Born (1956-06-01) 1 June 1956
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Political partyUnited Russia
Alma materMSU Faculty of Economics
Harvard University[2]
AwardsAlt textOrder of Honour

Alexander Dmitriyevich Zhukov (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Жуков; born 1 June 1956)[1] is a Russian economist and politician. Zhukov was a member of the State Duma from 1994 to 2004. He is the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly. Previously he was also the President of the Russian Olympic Committee.[3][4]

Early life

Alexander Zhukov was born in 1956 in Moscow. His father was Dmitry Zhukov, a Soviet writer and translator of English.

He graduated from high school No. 444 in Moscow, then the Faculty of Economics of the Moscow State University (1978) with a degree in economics and mathematics. Then he studied at the Higher Economic Courses at the State Planning Committee of the USSR. Zhukov is an alumnus of Harvard Business School,[2][5] and a specialist in the field of currency, tax and customs legislation.

Career

Financist

In 1980–91 Zhukov was an employee of the Monetary and Economic Department of the USSR Ministry of Finance: economist, senior expert, chief expert, deputy head, and head of the branch for foreign economic relations.

In 1988, working very closely with Zhukov, Boris Fyodorov, and Kirill Ugolnikov (Russian: Кирилл Угольников), Deloitte & Touche began providing services to the Soviet Union and continued with Russia.[6] From 1986 to 1989 he was a member of Baumansky District Council, Moscow. 1991–93 — Vice President of the Avtotraktoroexport JSC.

Member of parliament

In 1993 Zhukov elected to the First State Duma of Russia from the Preobrazhensky constituency of Moscow as a representative of the Dignity and Charity bloc, supported by the Choice of Russia. He was a member of the Committee on budget, taxes, banks and finance, chairman of the Subcommittee on exchange regulation, foreign debt and precious metals. He was a member and deputy chairman of the parliamentary group "Liberal Democratic Union of December 12".[7]

In February 1995 he was elected to the coordinating council of "Forward, Russia!" movement led by Boris Fyodorov, and chairman of the Moscow regional organization. In December Zhukov was reelected in Preobrazhensky constituency from "Forward, Russia!" and became chairman of the Committee on budget. He was a member of the "Russian Regions" faction. In 1999 he was running from Fatherland — All Russia and in 2003 from United Russia.

In the cabinet

After the formation of the new cabinet in March 2004 Zhukov became Deputy Prime Minister of Russia under Mikhail Fradkov. He was the chairman of the Commission on legislative activity and the Commission on issues of international humanitarian and technical assistance. His additional positions were coordinator of the Russian Tripartite Commission for the Regulation of Social and Labor Relations since May 2004, and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Housing Development Foundation since July 2008. Zhukov was one of the organizers of the monetization of benefits,[8] a 2005 reform which caused widespread protests in Russia.

Return to the Duma

In December 2011, Zhukov was elected a deputy of the sixth State Duma of Russia on the list of United Russia. On 21 December, he was elected First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and became a member of the Committee on budget and taxes. He successfully reelected in September 2016.

Sanctioned by the UK government on 11 March 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [9]

From 2010 to 2018 Zhukov was the president of the Russian Olympic Committee and became an IOC member at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013.[10] He was also president of the Russian Chess Federation from 2003[11] to 2009.[12][13]

Honours

References

  1. 1 2 Биография Александра Жукова (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 9 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Banker hit by Russian chief's son". Metro. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Highlights". IOC. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Putin calls for investigation of Russian doping allegations". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 11 November 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sochi Preview". Harvard Business School. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "Тот еще консультант. Тот еще консультант! Аудитор Всемирного банка уличен в компрометирующей связи с Борисом Федоровым" [He's still a consultant. What a consultant! World Bank auditor convicted of compromising connection with Boris Fedorov]. "Российская газета" (rg.ru) (in Russian). 7 July 2001. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Депутатская группа "Либерально-демократический Союз 12 декабря" в Государственной Думе первого созыва" [Deputy group "Liberal Democratic Union of December 12" in the first State Duma] (in Russian).
  8. ↑ "А.Жуков: Монетизация льгот в России продолжится" [A. Zhukov: Monetization of benefits in Russia will continue] (in Russian). RBC. 30 January 2005.
  9. ↑ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  10. ↑ IOC Session elects nine new members
  11. ↑ "New Officials of the Russian Chess Federation". FIDE. 2003-04-18.
  12. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2010-05-22). "More questions than answers in the race for FIDE President". The Week in Chess.
  13. ↑ Alexander Zhukov. Russian Olympic Committee.
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