Elvira Nabiullina | |
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Chairwoman of the Bank of Russia | |
Assumed office 24 June 2013 |
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Prime Minister | Dmitry Medvedev |
Preceded by | Sergey Ignatyev |
Minister of Economic Development of Russia | |
In office 12 May 2008 – 21 May 2012 |
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President | Dmitry Medvedev |
Prime Minister | Vladimir Putin |
Preceded by | Herself (as Minister of Economic Development and Trade) |
Succeeded by | Andrey Belousov |
Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russia | |
In office 24 September 2007 – 12 May 2008 |
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President | Vladimir Putin |
Prime Minister | Viktor Zubkov |
Preceded by | Herman Gref |
Succeeded by | Herself (as Minister of Economic Development) Viktor Khristenko (as Minister of Industry and Trade) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ufa, Bashkortostan, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
29 October 1963
Political party | Independent politician |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina (Russian: Эльвира Сахипзадовна Набиуллина; Tatar: Эльвира Сәхипзәде кызы Нәбиуллина; Bashkir: Эльвира Сәхипзада ҡыҙы Нәбиуллина) is a Tatar-born Russian economist and head of the Central Bank of Russia. She was Russian President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser between May 2012 to June 2013 after serving as minister of economic development and trade from September 2007 to May 2012. As of 2014, she is listed as the 72nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
She was born in Ufa, Bashkortostan, on 29 October 1963. She graduated from the Moscow State University in 1986. In subsequent years, she was also selected for the 2007 Yale World Fellows Program.
Between 1991 and 1994 Nabiullina worked at the USSR Science and Industry Union and its successor, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In 1994 she moved to the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade, where she rose to the level of deputy minister by 1997; she left the ministry in 1998. She spent the next two years with Sberbank as its chief executive and with former Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref's non-governmental think tank, the Center for Strategic Development, before returning to the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade as first deputy in 2000. Between 2003 and her September 2007 appointment as minister, she chaired the Center for Strategic Development as well as an advisory committee preparing for Russia's 2006 presidency of the G8 group of nations.