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KHLOPONIN, Alexander Gennadyevich
Governor of North Caucasus District
Born March 6, 1965 in Colombo, Ceylon Island (Sri Lanka).
1989 - graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute.
1989 -1992 - he worked in Soviet Vnesheconombank as the head of Government Loans Department.
1992 - Khloponin joined International Financial Company to become its president in 1996.
1996 - 2001- chairman of the board of directors, then general manager of Norilsk Nickel company.
February 2001- elected governor of Taimyr (Dolgan-Nenets) Autonomous district, Russia's center for nickel production.
September 2002 - elected governor of Krasnoyarsk Territory with 48% of the vote, after the death of the previous regional leader, Alexander Lebed, in a
helicopter accident. The Krasnoyarsk Territory is more than three times
the size of France. The young ambitious governor soon won the
reputation of an effective manager by dramatically improving the
economic situation in the region. He was named Person of the Year by Expert magazine, a Russian business weekly, in the same year.
2004 - he was among those who advocated the merger of Krasnoyarsk
Territory with the Evenki and Taimyr Autonomous districts. On April 17,
2005, the majority of the population in Krasnoyarsk Territory itself as
well as the autonomous areas voted in favor of the merger in a
referendum.
2007, then President Vladimir Putin, who had made regional
governors Kremlin-appointed officials, reconfirmed Khloponin in his
post.
Khloponin is a member of the Presidential Council on the
implementation of the national priority projects and demographic
policy, the Presidential Council on developing local self-government,
the Government Commission on the assessment of the performance of the
federal and regional state agencies, the State Council working group on
infrastructure development in aviation, and the Russian Commission for
UNESCO.
He was awarded with the Order of Honor in 1998 and the Order of Service to the Motherland, fourth class, in 2008.
January 2010 - named the governor of North Caucasus District.
Related Sources:
The Moscow Times, Medvedev names ex-top manager as manager to volatile Caucasus, January 19, 2010
RIA Novosti, Biography of Russia's new North Caucasus Presidential Envoy, January 19, 2010
Last updated January 20, 2010
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