Sergei Ivanov

Sergei Ivanov
Сергей Иванов
Ivanov in 2016
Special Representative of the President of Russia on the Issues of Environmental Activities, Ecology and Transport
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 August 2016
President	Vladimir Putin
Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration
In office 22 December 2011 – 12 August 2016
President	Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Sergey Naryshkin
Succeeded by	Anton Vaino
First Deputy Prime Minister
In office 15 February 2007 – 7 May 2008 Serving with Dmitry Medvedev
Prime Minister	Mikhail Fradkov Viktor Zubkov
Preceded by	Dmitry Medvedev
Succeeded by	Viktor Zubkov
Minister of Defense
In office 28 March 2001 – 15 February 2007
Prime Minister	Mikhail Kasyanov Mikhail Fradkov
Preceded by	Igor Sergeyev
Succeeded by	Anatoly Serdyukov
Secretary of the Security Council
In office 15 November 1999 – 28 March 2001
President	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Vladimir Putin
Succeeded by	Vladimir Rushailo
Personal details
Born	(1953-01-31) 31 January 1953 (age 71) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Spouse	Natalia Ivanova
Children	Alexander Sergey
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University FSB Academy
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union (1975-1991)  Russia (1991-2000)
Branch/service	KGB Foreign Intelligence Service Federal Security Service
Years of service	1975–2000
Rank	Colonel General

Sergei Borisovich Ivanov (Russian: Сергей Борисович Иванов, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪtɕ ɪvɐˈnof]; born 31 January 1953) is a Russian senior official and politician who has been serving as the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on the Issues of Environmental Activities, Ecology and Transport since 12 August 2016. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.^[1]

Ivanov had held the posts of Minister of Defense of Russia from March 2001 to February 2007, of Deputy Prime Minister from November 2005 to February 2007, and of First Deputy Prime Minister from February 2007 to May 2008. After the election of Dmitry Medvedev as President of Russia, Ivanov was reappointed a Deputy Prime Minister (in office: 2008–2011) in Vladimir Putin's second cabinet. From December 2011 to August 2016, Ivanov worked as the Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office.^[2] Having served in the Soviet KGB and in its successor, the Federal Security Service, he holds the rank of colonel general.

Before joining the federal administration in Moscow, Ivanov, served from the late 1991s in Europe and in Africa (Kenya) as a specialist in law and foreign languages. As an employee of the KGB in the Soviet-Union era, Ivanov became a friend of his colleague Vladimir Putin,^[3] who appointed him as his Deputy in 1998. He belongs to the siloviki of Putin's inner circle.