Andrei Fursenko
Andrei Alexandrovich Fursenko (Russian: Андрей Александрович Фурсенко; born July 17, 1949 in Leningrad ) is a Russian politician and served from 2004 to 2012 Minister of Education and Science in the government of Russia. He is considered a member of the St. Petersburg - Connection.
Life
Andrei Fursenko grew up as the son of the famous historian Alexander Fursenko on in Leningrad, where he studied from 1966 to 1971 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the National Zhdanov University. After graduation he worked at the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he worked among other things as a research assistant and later as head of a laboratory and executives. 1990 became Fursenko doctoral degrees in physics and mathematics.
In 1991 - the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union - left Fursenko the Ioffe Institute and went into the emerging private sector. He was from 1991 to 1993 vice-president of the company "Centre for promising technologies and work areas " and then to 2001, deputy head of the "Regional Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development " in Saint Petersburg, which, inter alia, with the recovery of investors for various regional high-technology projects dealt. In 1995, the then government party Fursenko Our house in Russia. He managed a political rise.
2001 Fursenko was first appointed to the Russian government: From December 2001 to June 2002, he was Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology in the Cabinet Kasyanov, then first deputy minister in the same department. From December 2003, he held the post of Minister provisionally until he 2004 Chief of the newly formed simultaneously ' Ministry of Education and Science ' was used in the new cabinet under Fradkov in March. In this post he retained under Fradkov's successor Zubkov and later under Vladimir Putin, Fursenko was, among other things one of the main initiators of the carried out between 2007 and 2009 reform in the Russian school system, according to the now the final exams and the entrance examinations to universities in a nationally uniform shape and grading scheme (so-called unified State examination ) to be performed. As head of the education department, he was a member of Präsidialbeirates for the realization of the National Projects of Russia.
His successor in the new government under Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Livanov was.
Fursenko is the author of over 100 scientific publications, among others, to the innovative work in technological fields. He is married and has a son. His younger brother Sergei (born 1954 ), a sports official and former manager in the Gazprom Group, since 2010 head of the Russian national football association.
On March 20, 2014 announced as part of the Krimkrise 2014, the U.S. Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control - OFAC ), that Fursenko and nineteen other men of Specially Designated Nationals List have been added. The bank balances of SDNs are blocked; U.S. citizens may not do business with them.