Alexander Zhukov | |
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First Vice Chairman of the State Duma | |
Assumed office 21 December 2011 |
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Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | |
In office 9 March 2004 – 20 December 2011 |
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President of the Russian Olympic Committee | |
Assumed office 2010 |
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Preceded by | Leonid Tyagachev |
Personal details | |
Born |
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russian Federation) |
1 June 1956
Political party | United Russia |
Alma mater | Harvard University,MSU Faculty of Economics |
Alexander Dmitriyevich Zhukov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Жу́ков; born 1 June 1956) is a Russian economist and politician. Zhukov was a member of the State Duma from 1994 to 2004. He is the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly and is also the current President of the Russian Olympic Committee.
Zhukov is an alumnus of Harvard University.
He is the president of the Russian Olympic Committee and became an IOC member at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013.