Alexander Petrovich Pochinok

Biography

Born January 12, 1958 in Chelyabinsk. Graduated from high school with gold medal honors; graduated from the Department of Economics at the Chelyabinsk Lenin Komsomol Memorial Polytechnic Institute (1980), with a degree in Engineering & Economics; completed graduate studies at the USSR Academy of the Sciences, Institute of Economics (1985); PhD in Economics (1986); Professor.

1980–1982: Research Intern; Associate Research Fellow at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Ural Institute of Economics.

1986–1990: Associate Research Fellow; Research Fellow; Senior Research Fellow at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Ural Institute of Economics.

1990–1993: The People’s Deputy of Russia; Member of the Supreme Soviet of Russia; Secretary; Deputy Chairman; Chairman of the Budgeting, Planning, Taxation and Pricing Committee for the Soviet of the Republic, Supreme Soviet of Russia.

1993–1994: The Russian Federation Deputy Minister of Finance; Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia Transition Committee.

1994–1995: Deputy for the First Calling of the State Duma for the Chelyabinsk Region’s Magnitogorsk voting district; Member of the Russia’s Choice faction.

1996–1997: Deputy for the Second Calling of the State Duma; Member of the State Duma Committee for Budgeting, Taxation, Banking, and Finance; Member of the Russian Regions deputy group. Simultaneously served as Deputy Chairman for the Budgetary Control Commission of the Interparlament State Assembly of CIS Members.

1997–1998: Head of the State Tax Service of Russia.

1998–1999: Head of the Russian Department of Finance and Monetary Credit Regulation.

1999–2000: Russian Minister of Taxation and Revenue.

2000–2004: Russian Minister of Labor and Workforce Development.

2004: Assistant to the Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.

December of 2004 to the present: Russian Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for Dmitry Kozak’s Southern Federal District.

2007–2011: Member of the Council of the Federation; Representative of the State Executive Body for the Krasnodar Region.

Member of the Democratic Choice of Russia and the Union of Rights Forces since their founding.

1995 to the present: Associate Professor; 1997 to the present: Professor in the Department of Tax Policy at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.