A. I. Kazmin is a prominent Russian statesman. In the period from 1996 to 2007, he served as chairman of the board and president of Sberbank of the Russian Federation. In the 2000s, Andrei Ilyich Kazmin was on the list of the thirteen most powerful financial figures in the country. In the late 2000s, he served as General Director of Russian Post.
Kazmin Andrey Ilyich: biography. Scientific and teaching activities
Kazmin A. I. was born on 1958-25-06 in Moscow. In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Credit and Economics of the Moscow Financial Institute. In 1982, Andrey Ilyich Kazmin (photo presented in the article) began working in one of the metropolitan branches of the State Bank of the USSR as an economist. Since 1983, after completing a full-time postgraduate study at the MFI, he was hired to teach at this university, and held the position of assistant to the department. In 1984 he defended his Ph. D. thesis.
From 1985 to 1988 Kazmin Andrei Ilyich holds the position of Deputy Dean at the CreditFaculty of Economics, MFI. In the period from 1988 to 1993, he served as a senior researcher in the commission of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences for the study of natural resources and productivity. Since 1991, the department has been renamed the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Academy of Sciences).
Work in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Between 1990 and 1993 Kazmin Andrei Ilyich served as Advisor to the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. In 1991-1993 trained in Germany. In 1993, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation (at that time the department was headed by B. Fedorov). Kazmin Andrey Ilyich was in charge of the issues of monetary and credit policy, the securities market, relations with the CIS countries, and interaction with commercial banks. He held this post until 1996 inclusive.
During the period of work in the ministry Kazmin Andrei Ilyich was a member of the government commission dealing with monetary and financial policy, led its working group (he held the position of executive secretary until 1997). In addition, in 1995 he was responsible for the issuance of OSZ - the first securities for the population, took part in the loans-for-shares auctions.
Sberbank of Russia
In 1996, he was relieved of his post and assumed the duties of chairman of the board and president of Sberbank of Russia, which was considered one of the largest banks in the country (according to 2001 data, it kept the deposits of three-quarters of Russians). In the same timeSberbank, which belonged to the Bank of Russia, was politically neutral: according to media reports, Kazmin A. I. remained loyal to all structures and major political figures.
Shortly after his appointment to the post of head of Sberbank, the publication of financial statements according to the accounting rules generally accepted in the United States began, and an English-language website was also opened on the Internet. In the spring of 2000, journalists were informed that Sberbank signed a document on cooperation with the Tyumen Oil Company and provided a loan of $300 million (the money was intended to expand the gas station network). In addition, another $200 million was pledged to develop new oil and gas fields.
In the summer of 2000 Kazmin A. I. became vice president of WSBI (World Savings Bank Institute). In the same year, Sberbank introduced a new banking service for Russia - an educational loan. In August, Kazmin approved the decision to open a loan for RAO "UES of Russia" in the amount of $200 million.
Among the most powerful financial figures in Russia
In 2001, Kazmin was awarded the Order of Honor. In 2002, he was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the international company Europay International. In 2003, he was awarded the title "Person of the Year" by the Rambler company (nomination "Business and Finance").
In 2003 and 2004, as the only representative of the banking sector, Kazmin A. I. was included in the list of the thirteen most powerful business figures in Russia, in which he took the last place,thirteenth place.
Under the leadership of Kazmin, Sberbank was gradually restructured geographically. Through his efforts, the Bank overcame the crisis of 2004. According to analysts, by 2005 Andrey Ilyich Kazmin turned Sberbank, which was considered "an inefficient socially oriented state machine", into a fast-growing and highly profitable banking institution. His assets are known to have quadrupled in five years.
From February to November 2005, Kazmin A. I. was a member of the directors of MMK (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works). In 2006, he was engaged in the production of an additional issue, as a result of which the bank's capital increased by almost a quarter.
Post of Russia
In October 2007, the new Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Zubkov made a proposal to appoint AI Kazmin as the head of the Russian Post. The head of government called this work "an important area requiring the modernization of development."
Soon, the president adopted Kazmin's report on the results of the work of Sberbank headed by him and gave his consent to the prime minister's proposal. Experts regarded this appointment as a step towards the implementation of the president's idea of using the postal service to provide banking and financial services to citizens.
Further, the media received information about Kazmin's sale of his shares in Sberbank (their market value at that time was about $29 million). Kazmin specifically emphasized that there was no connection between this step and his preferences as an investor. The ex-the chairman emphasized that he had no moral right to continue voting at the meeting. That's why he sold his shares. In November 2007, the meeting of shareholders prematurely terminated Kazmin's powers as chairman of the board and president of Sberbank. As everyone expected, G. Gref, the former head of the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development of the Russian Federation, took his place. No other nominations were put forward for the vote.
In December 2007 Kazmin A. I. took over as head of the Russian Post. As reported in the media, his application was the only one to participate in the competition. There were no more candidates for the post of General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise.
In January 2009, information was received about his transfer to another job. As it became known to the press, the reason for this was the global crisis, which prevented the department from implementing an expensive project to reorganize its branches to provide banking and financial services to the population.
Currently
It is known that Kazmin A. I. is a member of the General Council of "Business Russia" (a public organization that unites entrepreneurs and was created to carry out a constructive dialogue between business and government), as well as the Board of Trustees of the "Center of National Glory of Russia" (public foundation, a non-political organization established in 2001).
About personality
About AI Kazmin it is known that he is fluent in 3 foreign languages: German, English and Czech. They published overfifty scientific publications relating to credit, finance and banking. Fifteen of them have been published abroad. Awarded with the Order of Honor (2001), the Order of Merit in the Field of Financial Activity and Economics, and the Order of Merit for the Banking Community.
Kazmin Andrey Ilyich: personal life, family
Information about his personal life is rather scarce. It is known about the family of Andrei Ilyich Kazmin that he lives in a civil marriage with Alla Aleshkina, his former first deputy. The woman left the post after Kazmin's resignation from the post of head of Sberbank.
Spouse
It is known about Andrei Ilyich Kazmin's civil wife Alla Aleshkina (born in 1959) that from February to September 2008 she served as chairman of the board and president of Svyaz-Bank. Previously (from 1996 to 2007) she served as the first deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank. Prior to that, she worked as a deputy chairman of the board at MENATEP bank, headed the credit planning department in the operational department of Promstroybank. She left her job at Sberbank in November 2007, after Kazmin's resignation. In 2008, she left her job at Svyaz-Bank at the initiative of a new shareholder who acquired a 98% stake in Svyaz-Bank.
Aleshkina was known as the "iron lady of the financial market" and was a key figure in one of Russia's largest banks. She supervised the most important areas, including the credit policy of the bank, the woman usedfull support of A. I. Kazmin, head of Sberbank.
Experts point to her as the author of the first, developed in 1996, concept for the development of Sberbank. It is noted that it was A. Aleshkina who led the large-scale reorganization of the department. The media characterize A. Aleshkina as a person who is able to openly lobby for the interests of the bank and express her own opinion. She is known as a banker who allows herself "open criticism of the Central Bank".
Officially Alla Aleshkina is divorced and has three daughters. The inner circle considers her the common-law wife of Andrey Ilyich Kazmin. Information about the children of the latter is not provided.
