Sergei Ivanov

Date of Birth: 31.01.1953

Sergei Borisovich Ivanov - Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for Nature Conservation, Environment, and Transport. Retired General Colonel, Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (2011–2016), First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (2007–2011), Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (2001–2007).

Due to the annexation of Crimea by Russia and extensive Russian intervention in Ukraine, he is under personal sanctions from the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries.

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Graduate of the translation department of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University, subsequently - higher courses of the KGB of the USSR in Minsk, 101st school of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB (now - Academy of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation).

Career. From 1981 to 1998, he progressed from an operative officer of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB of the USSR to the first deputy head of a department of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the RF.

Received three long-term assignments in Scandinavian countries and Africa.

After the reorganization of the KGB, he continued his work in the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation and later in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

From August 1998 - Deputy Director of the FSB - Head of the Department for Analysis, Forecasting and Strategic Planning of the FSB.

From November 15, 1999, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Retired General Colonel.

From March 28, 2001, to 2007, he was the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

From November 14, 2005 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

On February 16, 2007, he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. He initially worked in the government of Mikhail Fradkov, later of Viktor Zubkov.

From May 12, 2008, after the inauguration of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, he held the position of Deputy Prime Minister in the Putin government.

From December 22, 2011 - Head of the Presidential Administration of Medvedev and then Putin.

On August 12, 2016, Putin dismissed Ivanov by decree from his position as head of the Presidential Administration and appointed him Special Envoy of the President for Nature Conservation, Environment, and Transport. Ivanov's successor in the position of head of the administration was Anton Vaino, who was previously Deputy Head of the Administration.

Fluent in English and Swedish.

Sanctions. Included in the US sanctions list in March 2014 due to the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the illegal referendum in Crimea.

Due to extensive Russian intervention in Ukraine, he is under personal sanctions from the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and some other countries.

Family. Married. Son Alexander was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Vnesheconombank from 2012 to 2014 and died in 2014 during a vacation in the UAE. Son Sergei, former Vice President of Sberbank of the RF, is President of the diamond mining company AK 'ALROSA'.

09.01.2024.