Fyodorov, Boris Grigoryevich

Fyodorov, Boris Grigoryevich
▪ 2009

      Russian economist and politician

born Feb. 13, 1958, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

died Nov. 20, 2008, London, Eng.
was one of post-Soviet Russia's leading exponents of free-market economic reforms. Fyodorov was cofounder (1994) of the investment bank United Financial Group (UFG) and UFG Asset Management, represented his country at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1991–92) and the World Bank (1992), and from 2000 served as a reform-minded director of the government-owned natural gas company Gazprom. Fyodorov studied economics at the Moscow Finance Institute (graduated 1980) and the Soviet Academy's Institute of World Economy and International Relations (Ph.D., 1989). After working at the State Bank and as an economic adviser to Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev, he served as deputy prime minister (1992–94), finance minister (1993), and chief tax administrator (1998). Fyodorov was elected to the Duma (parliament) in 1993 and again in 1995 at the head of his own free-market party, Forward Russia.

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