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Alexander
Shokhin is a well-known Russian statesman and politician, prominent economist
researcher, political scientist and lawyer, Doctor of Economic Sciences and
Professor.
He was born on
December 25th, 1951,
in Arkhangelsk
region. After graduating from the
Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Economics in 1974 , he spent
many years conducting research at Gosplan and the USSR Academy of Sciences
institutes. Then A. Shokhin worked in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
August 1991 -
Minister of Labour, RSFSR; November 1991 - Deputy Chairman of the Government
of the RF and at the same time Minister of Labour and Employment.
1993-1994 -
Head of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development,
1994 - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the RF, Minister of Economy of
the RF.
In December
1993 Alexander Shokhin was elected deputy of the first RF State Duma.
In 1995 he
became one of the founders of the ‘Nash dom - Rossiya' political movement and
was Deputy Chairman of its Political Council.
In December 1995 A. Shokhin was
elected deputy of the second RF State Duma and was the First Deputy Chairman
of the State Duma in 1996-1997.
In September
1997 he became Chairman of the ‘Nash dom - Rossiya' movement. In 1998 he gave up this post
due to differences of opinion with its leader, Viktor Chernomyrdin on the
direction of the party, and left the parliamentary group as well as the
movement.
In September
1998 Alexander Shokhin was appointed Deputy Chairman of the RF Government in
Evgeniy Primakov's cabinet, but even before his official resignation from
Duma in October, resigned from this position.
In December
1999 he was elected to the third State Duma of the RF as an independent
candidate. At the Duma he was Chairman of the Committee for Credit
Organizations and Financial Markets, a member of the Commission on the
Problems of Bankruptcy and Liquidation of Credit Organizations, a member of
the Commission on the State Debt and RF Foreign Assets; he was also Chairman
of the Interdepartmental Commission of the RF Security Council on Economic
Security, Head of the Russian Parliament Delegation at the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe and Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe from Russia.
2002-2006 -
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ‘Renaissance Capital' investment group.
In February
2003 Alexander Shokhin was elected Chairman of the Expert Council at the Federal Commission for the Securities Market. Since 2004 he has been
Vice President of the
Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and Chairman of the Coordinating
Council of Employers' Unions of Russia (CCEUR) 2005 to present - President of
the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; member of the RF
Public Chamber.
Alexander
Shokhin is a member of the Council on national priority projects and
demographic policies under the President of the RF; Commission on forming and
preparation of administrative staff reserve under the President of the RF;
Council on competitive ability and entrepreneurship under the Chairman of the
RF Government; RF Government Commissions on administrative reform, on high
technologies and innovations, on small and medium business. Alexander Shokhin
is an independent member of the board of directors at Lukoil, RZhD and a
number of other companies.
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