Vagit Alekperov
Russian-Azerbaijani oil executive, founder and former president of the petroleum company Lukoil.
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Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov (born 1 September 1950 in Baku) is a Russian oil executive of Azerbaijani origin. He began his career on Caspian offshore rigs and worked in the West Siberian oil fields before becoming deputy minister and then first deputy minister of the oil and gas industry of the Soviet Union in 1990.
In 1991 he oversaw the merger of the Langepas, Urai and Kogalym production associations into the enterprise that became Lukoil, Russia's largest privately held oil company, and served as its president from 1993 until 2022.
He founded the Our Future Foundation, which supports social entrepreneurship in Russia, and has published on the history of the Russian oil industry.
Formación académica
- Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry (engineering)