Dmitry Livanov

Dmitry Livanov
Дмитрий Ливанов
Livanov in 2017
Rector of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Assumed office
15 February 2022
Preceded byNikolay Kudryavtsev
Special representative of the president on trade and economic relations with Ukraine
In office
19 August 2016 – 5 October 2018
Preceded byMikhail Zurabov
Succeeded byOffice disestablished
Minister of Education and Science
In office
21 May 2012 – 19 August 2016
Preceded byAndrei Fursenko
Succeeded byOlga Vasilieva
Personal details
Born (1967-02-15) 15 February 1967 (age 57)
Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
ProfessionPhysicist
Doctor of Sciences in Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov (Russian: Дми́трий Ви́кторович Лива́нов, born February 15, 1967) is a Russian Doctor of Physics, professor, current rector of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and former rector of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, and the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation from 2012 to 2016.[1]

In 1990, he graduated with honors from the Physical Chemistry Department of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. In 1990-1992, he studied at the postgraduate in same institute, where he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Physico-Mathematical Sciences on "Heat transfer interacting electrons in superconductors and normal metals". In 1992-2000, he worked in that institute as Research fellow and senior researcher, Laboratory synthesis, associate professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics.

In 2004-2005, he became director of the scientific-technical and innovation department of the Ministry of Education and Science. In 2005-2007, he was promoted to Deputy Minister of Education and Science. In 2007, he became rector of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and additional President of the Black Sea Universities Network. He held this position till 21 May 2012, when he was appointed to the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet.

In 2013 he signed the reform tha tincorporated the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Agriculture Sciences into the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), subordinating it to the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations (FASO), a government-controlled entity which realized a takeover of the RAS assets.[2]

On 19 August 2016 Livanov was replaced in the government with Olga Yurievna Vasilieva[3] and appointed special representative of the president on trade and economic relations with Ukraine.[4] On 26 August 2016 the Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported that it did not have had any contact with Livanov.[5]

  1. ^ "Decree of the President of the Russian Federation from 21 May 2012 №652 "On the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation"". Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
  2. ^ Dagmara Moskwa (2018). "Russia:An Incessant Battle for Education" (PDF). Historia i Polityka (in English and Russian) (24): 33–46. doi:10.12775/HiP.2018.009. ISSN 1899-5160. OCLC 8772658729. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 20, 2021. (here cited p. 35)
  3. ^ "В России сменился министр образования". Interfax. 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  4. ^ "Дмитрий Ливанов официально назначен спецпредставителем президента по торгово-экономическим связям с Украиной". Echo of Moscow. 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
  5. ^ Ukraine's trade ministry won't interact with Russian envoy except on lifting restrictions, UNIAN (26 August 2016)