Sergei Shmatko
| Sergei Shmatko | |
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| Former Minister of Energy | |
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In office May 2008 – May 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimir Putin |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Novak |
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| Born |
26 September 1966 Stavropol, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Political party | United Russia |
Sergei Ivanovich Shmatkó (born September 26, 1966) is a Russian businessman and politician specializing in the energy industry. He was Russia's Minister of Energy from May 2008 until May 2012.
Shmatko was born in Stavropol (South-West of Russia). He earned degrees from both Urals State University in Yekaterinburg (USSR), and the University of Marburg in West Germany.
His business career from 1992 involved stints consulting in Germany and Russia, and working at the All-Russia Bank of Regional Development. He was appointed head of economic strategy at Rosenergoatom in 1997, and in 2005 became president of Russia's nuclear-power export monopoly, Atomstroyexport.
In May 2008, he was appointed to the newly established position of Minister of Energy, in the incoming administration of President Dmitry Medvedev.
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