Igor Shuvalov

Igor Ivanovich Shuvalov (Russian Игорь Иванович Шувалов, scientific transliteration Igor Ivanovich Shuvalov, born January 4, 1967 in Bilibino ) is a Russian politician and since May 12, 2008 First Deputy Prime Minister in the government under Vladimir Putin.

Biography

A native of the Magadan Oblast Shuvalov worked after leaving school 1984-1985 as a laboratory and then completed in the years 1985-1987 his military service in the Soviet armed forces. A short time later, he began his law studies at the Moscow State University. This he completed in 1993 and worked as a counselor in the Department of Legal Affairs of the Russian Foreign Ministry. From 1993 to 1995 he was also active as a legal advisor in a consulting agency, from 1995 to 1997 director of a law firm.

From 1997 to 1998 Shuvalov was Head of Department in the State Property Management Authority. In 1998 he then moved to the Russian government Viktor Chernomyrdin, First Deputy Minister of state property, and later to 2000 as Chairman of the National Property Fund. With the inauguration of Mikhail Kasyanov as Prime Minister on 18 May 2000 Shuvalov was appointed as head of the apparatus of government.

From 28 May 2003 Igor Shuvalov worked for three years as an advisor to the then President Putin and from October of the same year as deputy head of the presidential administration. Together with Dmitry Medvedev Shuvalov founded the forward- national projects to promote education, health, agriculture, roads and housing.

On 12 May 2008 the divorced from the president and elected by the State Duma as prime minister Putin Shuvalov appointed as one of the two First Deputy Prime Minister in his cabinet, next to the previous Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.

Following the resignation of Alexei Kudrin in September 2011 Igor Shuvalov also took the official duties of the Russian finance minister briefly provisionally true. In connection with financial transactions of offshore companies Shuvalov was accused in the spring of 2012, to have taken advantage of insider knowledge in these transactions and to have achieved in this way very high profits. Shuvalov denied these allegations and stated that the transactions with the Russian laws were compliant and he had always avoided conflicts of interest.

Shuvalov is married, has a son and two daughters.