Alexander Khloponin (Александр Геннадьевич Хлопонин) was born on March 6, 1965, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His father was Foreign Ministry translator.

Education: Moscow Institute of Finance, 1989. Khloponin studied with future Onexim Group chairman Mikhail Prokhorov.

1989-1992: Worked in the Bank for Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union

1992: Deputy chairman of the International Finance Corporation (MFK)

1996: President of MFK

1996-2001: General director of Norilsk Nickel

2001-2002: Governor of the Taimyr autonomous district (also known as Dolgano-Nenetsk autonomous district), where Norilsk Nickel was a major employer.

2002-2010: Governor of the Krasnoyarsk region. Appointed by President Vladimir Putin after incumbent Alexander Lebed died in a helicopter crash.

January 2010-Present: Deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the new North Caucasus Federal District; Reappointed as deputy prime minister in Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet in May 2012