Anatoly Chubais

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovich and the family name is Chubais.

Anatoly Chubais
Анатолий Чубайс
Chubais in 2017
Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals
In office
4 December 2020 – 22 March 2022
Chairman of the Executive Board of Rusnano
In office
22 September 2008 – 3 December 2020
First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office
7 March 1997 – 23 March 1998
Prime MinisterViktor Chernomyrdin
In office
5 November 1994 – 16 January 1996
Prime MinisterViktor Chernomyrdin
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office
1 June 1992 – 5 November 1994
Prime MinisterYegor Gaidar (acting)
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Kremlin Chief of Staff
In office
15 July 1996 – 7 March 1997
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Preceded byNikolai Yegorov
Succeeded byValentin Yumashev
Minister of Finance
In office
17 March 1997 – 20 November 1997
Prime MinisterViktor Chernomyrdin
Preceded byAleksandr Livshits
Succeeded byMikhail Zadornov
Member of the State Duma
In office
11 January 1994 – 15 January 1996
Personal details
Born
Anatoly Borisovich Chubais

(1955-06-16) 16 June 1955 (age 69)
Borisov, Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
NationalityRussian, Israeli
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Union of Right Forces
Spouses
Lyudmila Grigoryeva
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(m. 1978; div. 1989)​
Maria Vishnevskaya
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(m. 1990; div. 2011)​
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(m. 2012)​
RelationsIgor Chubais (brother)
Children2
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Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (Russian: Анатолий Борисович Чубайс; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian-Israeli politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s.[1] During this period, he was a key figure in introducing a market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[2] He fled to Israel in 2022 and subsequently obtained Israeli citizenship.[3][4][5][6]

From 1998 to 2008, he headed the state-owned electrical power monopoly RAO UES. A 2004 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Financial Times named Chubais the world's 54th most respected business leader.[7] He was the head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (RUSNANO) from 2008 to 2020.[8][9]

In December 2020, he was appointed a special representative of the Russian president for relations with international organisations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.[10] He resigned from this position in March 2022 and left Russia after opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to media reports.[11][12] He is the highest ranked Russian figure to have resigned due to the invasion.[13][14]

Chubais was a member of the Advisory Council for JPMorgan Chase from September 2008 until 2013.[15][16] He is a long-time participant and speaker of the Bilderberg Club. On 30 May 2024, he took part in the club's 70th anniversary meeting in Madrid, Spain.[17][18] That same year, he founded the Center for Russian Studies (CRS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University.[19] He is currently an acting member of The Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations.[20]

  1. ^ Profile: Anatoly Chubais Archived 4 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine BBC News
  2. ^ О присвоении квалификационных разрядов федеральным государственным служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации (Decree 1613) (in Russian). President of Russia. 3 December 1996.
  3. ^ Horovitz, Michael (17 May 2023). "Report: Ex-senior Kremlin official who quit amid Ukraine war gets Israeli citizenship". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  4. ^ Eichner, Itamar (17 May 2023). "Fleeing Putin, former Russian deputy PM spotted in Israeli immigration office". Ynetnews. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  5. ^ Staff (5 May 2022). "Former Putin adviser Anatoly Chubais fled to Israel - report". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  6. ^ Rozovsky, Liza (14 February 2024). "Former Top Official Under Putin Helps Fund New Russian Studies Center at Tel Aviv University". Haaretz. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Chubais, Kukes Are Respected". The St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2008.
  8. ^ Russian reformer Chubais becomes Rosnanotech head Archived 19 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine Reuters, 22 September 2008.
  9. ^ "Чубайс покидает пост главы "Роснано" Путин предложил его место зампреду ВПК Куликову" [Chubais leaves the post of head of "Rosnano" Putin offered his place to the deputy chairman of the military-industrial complex Kulikov]. Kommersant. 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Анатолий Чубайс назначен спецпредставителем Президента по связям с международными организациями" [Anatoly Chubais Appointed Special Representative of the President for Relations with International Organizations]. Official site of the President of Russian Federation. Archived from the original on 25 February 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference MoscowTimes_Chubais_quits was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bloomberg_Chubais_quits was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference FT_Chubais_quits was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ "'One big adventure': the Russian minister who fled the draft to drive trucks in the US | US news | The Guardian". TheGuardian.com. 18 August 2023. Archived from the original on 18 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  15. ^ J.P. Morgan appoints Anatoly Chubais to advisory council
  16. ^ "Как Греф сменил Чубайса в закрытом клубе мировой финансовой элиты" [How Gref replaced Chubais in the closed club of the world financial elite Kulikov]. Business Gazeta. 10 August 2013. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  17. ^ "2012 Bilderberg Meetings Final List of Participants". Bilderberg Meetings. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  18. ^ "LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 2024". BILDERBERG MEETINGS. Archived from the original on 18 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  19. ^ "The Center for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University has begun its work". en-social-sciences.tau.ac.il. Archived from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  20. ^ "Global Board of Advisors | Council on Foreign Relations". www.cfr.org. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2024.