Alexander Khloponin

Alexander Gennadievich Chloponin (Russian Александр Геннадиевич Хлопонин; born March 6, 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka ) is a Russian politician. Since 2010 he has been Vice - Prime Minister of the Russian government and Governor-General of the North Caucasian Federal District.

After graduating from the Faculty of International Economics at the Moscow Financial Institute in 1989 Chloponin worked for three years in the credit department of the Russian Vnesheconombank. After joining the MLC bank, he was initially the vice - chairman and later president. In 1996 he took over the post of director general and chief executive officers of Norilsk Nickel. In 2001 Chloponin into politics after he was elected governor of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug. Already in the following year was Chloponin governor of Krasnoyarsk. In January 2010 he was appointed Vice - Prime Minister and Governor-General of the newly created North Caucasus Federal District. The district includes Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino -Balkaria, Karachay -Cherkessia, North Ossetia -Alania and Chechnya and the Stavropol Territory.