Anatoly 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
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
(m. 1978; div. 1989)
    Maria Vishnevskaya
    (m. 1990; div. 2011)
      (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. 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. He fled to Israel in 2022 and subsequently obtained Israeli citizenship.

      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. He was the head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (RUSNANO) from 2008 to 2020.

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

      Chubais was a member of the Advisory Council for JPMorgan Chase from September 2008 until 2013. 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. That same year, he founded the Center for Russian Studies (CRS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University. He is currently an acting member of The Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations.