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{{Infobox Person
| name = Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev
| birth_date = 14 August 1955
| birth_place = Shakhtyorsk
| nationality = Russian
| occupation = Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom
}}

:''For the Russian ice hockey player born in 1979, see [[Alexander Medvedev (ice hockey)]].''
'''Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev''' ({{lang-ru|Александр Иванович Медведев; ''Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedev''}}) (born 14 August 1955 in [[Shakhtyorsk]], [[Sakhalin Oblast]]) is the current Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company [[Gazprom]]. Medvedev also served as Director-General of Gazprom's export arm [[Gazprom Export]] from 2006 until 2014. He is a member of the Coordination Committee of [[RosUkrEnergo]] and a member of the shareholders' committee of [[Nord Stream AG]], and was the first president of the [[Kontinental Hockey League]] (KHL), serving from 2008 until his resignation in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=9221&cHash=44999b58c950531b3fb81ae0f834bf5b|title=KHL: Change of leadership|last=Merk|first=Martin|date=2014-12-01|publisher=IIHF.comaccessdate=2015-03-28}}</ref>

==Background==
In 1978, he graduated from the [[Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology]]. From 1978 to 1989 he worked at the [[Institute of World Economy and International Relations]]. In 1989–1991 he was a director of the Soviet owned [[Donau Bank AG]] in Vienna and a managing director of bank's subsidiary company Inter Trade Consult GmbH. There are speculations that he had an undercover [[KGB]] job because he worked at Donau Bank at the same time as [[Andrei Akimov]], another KGB officer and now [[Gazprombank]]'s chief.<ref>[https://portfolio.du.edu/portfolio/getportfoliofile?uid=108086 Putin’s Revolution: The Role of the Intelligence and Security Services in the Revitalization of Russia] Ross D. Allen 3/3/2008</ref><ref>[http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?story_id=25000&action_id=2 Agents in power], ''St. Petersburg Times''</ref>

From 1991 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2002 he was director of the Austrian IMAG Investment Management & Advisory Group GmbH. Between 1997 and 1998 he was a vice president of the Eastern oil company (Восточная нефтяная компания) in Moscow. Since August 2002, Alexander Medvedev is the Director-General of Gazprom Export (former Gazeksport) and the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Gazprom.

Between 2008 and 2014, Alexander Medvedev served as president of the [[Kontinental Hockey League]]. He is also the president of [[SKA Saint Petersburg]] hockey club and Russia's representative to the [[International Ice Hockey Federation]] Council.

In December 2008, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that at one point Medvedev predicted Gazprom's market value would reach $1 trillion by 2014. He was also reported to have, in light of the subsequent collapse in the market value (down some 76% to $85 billion; from 3rd in the world to 35th), attributed the fall in value to the condition of the Moscow stock market (see [[Russian Trading System]] and [[Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange]]) and to the [[global financial crisis]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/business/worldbusiness/30gazprom.html?pagewanted=1&em "Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling" by Andrew E. Kramer] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 12-30-2008, p. B1 of NY edition.</ref>

In 2009, Medvedev stated an interest in acquiring one of three unspecified [[National Hockey League|NHL]] franchises. In May, he claimed that his representatives spoke with NHL Deputy Commissioner [[Bill Daly]], who refused to accept Russian ownership in the league. Daly denied ever being in contact with Medvedev and asserted that the NHL does not discriminate on the basis of nationality among its prospective team owners.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/sports/09hockey.html|title= Russian Mogul Clashes With N.H.L. Over Ownership Bid|last= Klein|first= Jeff|date= 8 May 2009|publisher= [[The New York Times]]|access-date= 25 February 2015}}</ref>

Medvedev has played key roles in [[List of Gazprom's subsidiaries|Gazprom's opaque intermediaries]] such as [[RosUkrEnergo]], [[Centrex Group]], [[Gazprom Germania]], and [[YugoRosGaz]].<ref>[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=34511 Bulgaria's "Overgas," a Russian Spy in Canada, and Gazprom] Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 30 February 13, 2009</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.gazprom.com/about/management/board/medvedev/ Biography of Alexander Medvedev, Gazprom website]

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