Andrey Nechaev

Andrey Alekseevich Nechayev (; born February 2, 1953, Moscow) is a Russian politician, scientist and economist. He is best known for being the first Minister of Economic Development of new Russia, from 1992-1993 (Viktor Chernomyrdin's First Cabinet). Nechayev is one of the authors and active participants in the program of market-oriented economic reforms in Russia. 
Biography.
Nechayev is a Doctor of Economics, Professor (2002), author of 25 books (including co-authored), and almost 300 scientific publications on economic developments and policies. Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the . Professor of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
Nechayev is chairman of the party Civic Initiative. 
He was the president of the state owned Russian Financial Corporation (RFK) () from 1993 until 2005 when it was privatized and he continued as president of Bank "Russian Financial Corporation" or RFK-Bank () from 2005 to 2013.
Since 2013, he has been a lobbyist for Rusconsult (). Through his and his daughter's ownership of Rusconsult which owns the controlling stake in RFK-Bank, he has been a pivotal lobbyist for state and government contracts, which must have accounts with RFK-Bank or its subsidiaries, including contracts with the Gazprom subsidiaries Gazprom-UGS () and Tsentrenergogaz or Centerenergogaz ().
Personal life.
His daughter Ksenia Nechayevna () is married to Nikolai Vitalievich Tkachenko (; b. 1978) whom Gazprom hired as an executive Deputy Head of the Department for Corporate Costs Management after Nechayev gave strong support. After Tkachenko gained access to Gazprom's secret maps of non-ferrous deposits, the Nechayev family acquired the Nerud North-West LLC () and placed Svetlana Sergienko (), who was the general director of Rusconsult, in charge of the firm. After Tkachenko's younger brother Evgeny Tkachenko () graduated from Moscow State University, Evgeny Tkachenko was immediately hired as a consultant for KPMG and, subsequently, KPMG, which rarely received Gazprom tenders, began auditing numerous Gazprom activities including various aspects of the Nord Stream project.