Alexander Valeryevich Dyukov (, ; born 13 December 1967) is a Russian businessman serving as the chairman of the management board of

Gazprom Neft Gazprom Neft (; formerly Sibneft, ) is the third largest oil producer in Russia and ranked third according to refining throughput. It is a subsidiary of Gazprom, which owns about 96% of its shares. The company is registered and headquartered in ...

, one of Russia’s top-5 vertically integrated oil companies by production and amongst the largest oil companies in the world by proven reserves. He was also president of

FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Football Club Zenit (, ), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, according to some Russian sources), the club p ...

and is the current president of the

Russian Football Union The Russian Football Union (, ''Rossiyskiy Futbolnyy Soyuz'' or RFS) is the official governing body of association football in the Russian Federation. With headquarters in Moscow, it organizes Russian amateur and professional football, includi ...

Education

Dyukov graduated from Leningrad’s Shipbuilding Institute in 1991 and in 2001 took an IMISP

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

degree at the International Management Institute of Saint Petersburg.

Career

From 1996 to 1998, he was the chief financial officer and chief executive officer of JV CJSC St-Petersburg Oil Terminal. In 1998, he was appointed economics director and in 1999 acted as chief executive officer of JSC St-Petersburg Sea Port. In 2000, he resumed his duties in JV CJSC St-Petersburg Oil Terminal as chairman of the board of directors. From February 2003, he had been appointed president of SIBUR. In November 2006, he was appointed president of JSC Gazprom Neft and since then, has been chairman of the board of directors of OAO SIBUR Holding. In January 2008, he became the chairman of the management board and chief executive officer of JSC

. In March 2008, he was appointed as president of the football club Zenit. St. Petersburg, which he held until 2017. In 2011, he became deputy chairman of the board of directors of OAO SIBUR, and in December of the same year, his contract was extended by the board of Gazprom Neft for a further five years. In February 2019, Dyukov was elected president of the

Sanctions

He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

References

External links

Interview with Dyukov after UEFA cup success.Official Zenit website
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