Web-sites: http://www.chubais.ru/, http://a-chubais.livejournal.com/, http://www.rusnano.com/Post.aspx/Show/14746

Anatoly Chubais (Àíàòî́ëèé Áîðè́ñîâè÷ ×óáà́éñ) was born on June 16, 1955, in Borisov, Belarus.

Education: Leningrad Economic Engineering Institute (LIEI), 1977. Ph.D., economics, LIEI, 1983. Dissertation: "Researching and Developing Methods for Improving Management in Industrial Research and Development Organizations."

1982-1990: Assistant professor at LIEI. During this time, he became a prominent free-market, pro-democracy economist.

1987: Founded the Perestroika organization to promote free-market, pro-democracy ideas

1990: First deputy chairman of the Leningrad Executive Committee

1991: Director of the State Committee for Managing State Property. Chubais used this position to promote rapid privatization, dubbed "shock therapy."

1992: First deputy prime minister, in charge of economy and finance

1993: Established the Choice of Russia voting bloc. Elected to the State Duma.

1994-1996: State Duma deputy. Member of Property, Privatization and Economics Committee.

1994-1996: First deputy prime minister. Oversaw the government's economic and financial policies and was head of the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission.

1996-1997: President's chief of staff. Ran Boris Yeltsin's 1996 re-election campaign.

1997: Finance minister

1997-1998: First deputy prime minister. Member of the Security Council.

1998-2008: Chairman of the board of Unified Energy System (UES), a state-owned electrical power monopoly

2001-2003: Co-chairman of the pro-Western Union of Right Forces party

2005: Survived assassination attempt

2008-present: Director of state nanotechnology corporation Rusnano