Vladimir Smirnov (businessman)

Vladimir Alexeyevich Smirnov (Russian: Владимир Алексеевич Смирнов; born January 29, 1957 in Pskov ) is a Russian businessman.

Life

He completed a course of study with a focus on electro-mechanical engineering for the production of aeronautical engineering in 1980 at the Leningrad Institute and a doctorate in the fields of Engineering ( 1986) and Economics ( 2000).

Since 2008 he is member of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Nazionalny Kosmitscheski Bank. Smirnov is the author of ten inventions and author of 45 scientific works. In 1990 he founded a joint venture in St. Petersburg with a German partner, the developer Inform Future. The company has set up in the city the first office complex for foreign companies. Between 1997 and 1998, Smirnov was Director General of the Petersburg Fuel Company. He then became CEO of the company. In this role, he worked in the years 1999 and 2000.

Tenex

His work as Director General of Techsnabexport ( Tenex ) Smirnov took on in 2002. Smirnov signed during his last until 2007 working for Tenex long-term contracts until 2020, guaranteeing nearly all nuclear power plants in the world a supply of low-enriched uranium.

With Smirnov in the role of General TENEX operating in cooperation with the United States of America the " Megatons to Megawatts " project. Since the entry into force Russia earned through the program 3.5 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2005, the State Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom Smirnov appointed as a board advisor. At the same time a branch of TENEX ' was opened in Tokyo under his leadership. The cooperation between Japan and Russia is the opinion of Smirnov a milestone for the global future of nuclear energy.

Since 2003, Tenex is the main sponsor of the annual scientific and educational contest " Energy of the Future ". The aim of the conference organized by the Nuclear Academy competition is to improve production efficiency and develop the intellectual potential of the nuclear industry.

During his time in TENEX Smirnov began a sponsorship program whose content was the promotion of nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and environmental commitment on the part of Russia and social associations. Thus took place on 13 October 2002 with a Swiss train a peace concert with the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Spivakov instead. Among the guests at the event included, inter alia, Mikhail Gorbachev and Desmond Tutu.

In March 2006, Smirnov was awarded by Russian President Vladimir Putin with the Medal of Merit for the Fatherland, second class.