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Dr Andrei Konoplyanik is an energy specialist by background (major professional areas - energy economics, energy & investment legislation, energy financing), and received his PhD (in 1978) and Dr of Science (in 1995) in international energy economics from Moscow-based State University of Management. In the late 70's and through 80's he researched international energy issues in the Institute of World Economy & International Relations, USSR Academy of Sciences (IMEMO) and in 1990-91 in the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan). He served as Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Russia from 1991 to 1993 with particular responsibility for external economic relations and direct foreign investments.
Since 1993 he has worked as an Adviser to a number of Ministries in the Russian government and to the State Duma, where he headed the drafting group preparing legislation on Production Sharing Agreements. In the mid-90's he also worked as an executive director of the Russian Bank for Reconstruction and Development. From 1999 to early 2002 he was President of the Moscow-based Energy and Investment Policy and Project Financing Development Foundation and in that capacity, and as an Adviser to the Russian Ministry of Energy, has contributed to the drafting of the Russian Energy Strategy to 2020.
Dr Konoplyanik is a visiting chief research fellow at IMEMO. He is a honorary fellow at CEPMLP, and at the economic faculty of Aberdeen University, and is a member of the IBA, IAEE and AIPN. He wrote more than 300 articles on energy issues published both in USSR/Russia and abroad, and participated in around 40 monographs.
