Putin's cousin elected to Gazprom board
Gazprom’s Board of Directors has elected Mikhail Putin as a Deputy Chairman of the company for a period of five years, Interfax reports, citing Gazprom's press service.
He has taken the position of Alexander Kozlov, who passed away last year.
Mikhail Putin is the first cousin once removed of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was born in Ivanovo in 1967, and graduated from the Ivanovo State Medical Institute and the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Management Institute (now State University of Management) as a PhD in Medical Sciences.
He previously worked as Deputy Director General of state-owned company Medtechsnab for the Russian Ministry of Health. He also held two other positions over the course of his tenure at the Ministry of Health: Deputy Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Activity, which involved the provision of medicines and medical products, and Head of the Department for Economic Development of Health Care, which involved financial management and material resources for the Ministry of Health.
From 2004 to 2007, Mikhail Putin was the head of Gazprom’s medical department, and from 2007 served as a Deputy Chairman on the Board of Joint Stock Company Sogaz. He currently serves as a state counselor of the Russian Federation.
Concurrently, from 2007 to 2018, Mikhail Putin served as an advisor to the Chairman of the Board of the PJSC Gazprom. He is a minority shareholder of Gazprom.