Boris Kovalchuk

Kovalchuk was born on December 1, 1977, in Leningrad, which was then part of the Russian SFSR.^[3] His father is Yury Kovalchuk, who has been known to be a longtime associate of Vladimir Putin.^[3] In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.^[4] After graduating he worked until 2006 as a legal consultant at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Research Institute "Granit", which supplies telecommunications equipments while also from 2003 to 2006 being a member of the audit commission of the Rossiya Bank which his father owns.^[3] In addition, during this time, he was executive director of the non-profit "League of Honorary Consuls", director of the North-West Consulting Company, head of Consult LLC, and head of the management company "Investment Culture" which built ski resorts in Leningrad region.^[5]

On March 9, 2006, he was appointed assistant in the secretariat of then First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev.^[5] In November 2009 he was appointed Acting Chairman of the Management Board of Inter RAO, after Yevgeny Dod went to the board of RusHydro.^[6] In the summer of 2010 he was approved as the full-time chairman of Inter RAO, which he did until March 2024.^[7]

He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War. ^[8]

In December 2022 the EU sanctioned Boris Kovalchuk in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[9]