First Deputy Prime Minister

Probable candidate for Russian Presidency after VV Putin

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister on November 14, 2005.

Previously, he served as Head of the Presidential Administration since the October 30, 2003 resignation of Alexander Voloshin.

He was named Deputy Head of the Government Apparatus by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in November 1999. When Mr. Putin became Acting President at the end of 1999, he appointed Medvedev as Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in charge of personnel and the president’s schedule, and promoted him in 2000 to the rank of First Deputy Chief of Staff.

Mr. Medvedev also headed President Putin’s election campaign in 2000. In addition to his government work, Mr. Medvedev has chaired the Board of Directors of Gazprom since 2000. In 1998, he was elected to the Board of the Bratskii LPK paper mill and served as an adviser to the Chairman of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly and as a legal consultant to the External Relations Committee of the St. Petersburg mayor’s office from 1990 to 1995. In November 1993, Mr. Medvedev joined Ilim Pulp Enterprise, a St. Petersburg-based timber company, as its Legal Affairs Director.

From 1990 to 1999, Mr. Medvedev served as an assistant professor at Leningrad State University, from which he holds a doctoral degree.