Alexander Novak is Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transneft, a member of the Board of Directors of Rosneft; Gazprom and of the Supervisory Board of Rosatom. In 1993, he graduated from Norilsk Industrial Institute as a specialist on Economy and Management in Metallurgy. In 2009 he graduated from the economic faculty of the Moscow State Lomonosov University (evening education) as a specialist on management. On May 21, 2012, appointed Minister of Energy by Presidential Executive Order.