Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin (born 7 May 1956) is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and majority shareholder of Novolipetsk (NLMK), one of the four largest steel companies in Russia.
Vladimir Lisin | |
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Владимир Лисин | |
 Lisin in 2009 | |
| Born | 7 May 1956 (age 68) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Siberian Metallurgic Institute Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, PhD |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Title | Chairman, Novolipetsk Steel |
| Spouse | Lyudmila Lisina |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | |
According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, in 2024 he is the second richest man in Russia; behind Vladimir Potanin and 61 richest in the world with an estimated net worth of US$ 30.0 billion.[1] In the 2023 Forbes rating, Lisin dropped to third place among Russian billionaires, behind Andrey Melnichenko and Vladimir Potanin, his fortune estimated at $22.1 billion.[2]
Background
editVladimir Lisin got his first job in 1975 working as a mechanic in a Soviet coalmine, and after studying at the Siberian Metallurgic Institute got a job working as a welder foreman at Tulachermet Metals Works.[3] He rose through the ranks to become section manager, shop manager in 1979 and deputy chief engineer in 1986.
In 1992 he joined a group of traders (the Trans-World Group) who won control of Russia's steel and aluminium industry. When the partners split in 2000, he received 13% of the firm and later achieved a controlling share. His former boss was named the Minister for Russian Metallurgy, and Lisin became the sole owner of Novolipetsk Steel in 2000.
Since 1993 he has been a board member of several Russian metal producers, including NLMK, MMK and Sayansk and Novokuznetsk Aluminium Plants and has been a member of the board of directors of Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) since 1996 and its chairman since 1998. He previously worked as deputy chief engineer and as deputy general director of the Karaganda Steel Plant, one of Kazakhstan's four largest steel plants.
Lisin was member of the board of directors of Zenit Bank. Lisin sits on the board of directors of the Novolipetskii Metallurgical Combine, one of largest steel companies in Russia, in 1998 and still holds that position. He is a director at CJSC Chernomorneftegaz. He was a Director of Norilsk Nickel Mining and Metallurgical Co. since 2002. He has been chairman of JSC Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Corporation (OJSC Novolipetsk Steel) since June 2007. He served as an independent member of the board of directors of OJSC United Shipbuilding Corporation in 2008–2012.[4][5] Until January 2023 he was a member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs bureau, but then left the post of his own free will.[6]
His business interests, apart from steel, include transportation and logistics (with stakes in St Petersburg Sea Port, Tuapse Commercial Sea Port, North-Western Shipping Company, Volga Shipping Company), energy (stakes in Chernomorneftegaz and Severneftegaz), and utilities (Russian grid companies Federal Grid Company and Distribution Grid Company of Center). These predominantly Russian assets are controlled via Fletcher Group Holdings.[7][8] In the summer of 2023, it became known that Lisin registered Serenity II Holdings and Nebula II Holdings in Abu Dhabi and transferred his assets there.[9]
Education and metallurgical expertise
editHe graduated from the Siberian Metallurgic Institute in 1979 with a metallurgical engineering diploma specialising in "Foundry of irons and non-ferrous metals". In 1984, he completed postgraduate study in UKRNIIMET by correspondence (Kharkov, Ukraine) earning a metallurgical engineering degree. In 1989, he graduated with an MSc in metal engineering from the Central Research Institute of ferrous metallurgy named after I. P. Bardin (Moscow). In 1990, he received a diploma of the higher commercial school under the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade of People's Friendship Order, the training program "Administration and activity management of joint ventures in the territory of the USSR" (Moscow). In 1992 an MSc in Economics and Management from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). In 1996 a doctorate of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS), Faculty of engineering and in 1997 thesis for a PhD in metallurgical engineering. In 1999, was a professor at RANEPA, and in 2005 received a doctorate in economics.[10]
He holds various patents for metallurgical processes and has published over 100 articles on metallurgy and economics, including 15 monographs.[11] He is a professor of the Academy of National Economy and the holder of the Council of Ministers' prize in the science and engineering (1989), the Honorary Metallurgist of Russia (1999), the Knight of the Order of Honour of the Russian Federation (2000) and the Knight of the Order of St. Sergiy Radonezhsky (2001).[12]
Sports
editLisin is a shooting sports enthusiast. He was president of the European Shooting Confederation until October 2021, the Russia Shooting Union and has been appointed vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee.[13] In 2013, Lisin was appointed as a member of the ISSF Executive Committee.[14] He built one of Europe's largest shooting-range complexes in Lisya Nora, near Moscow.[15] In November 2018 Lisin was elected president of the International Shooting Sport Federation, and succeeded Olegario Vázquez Raña, who had served as president since 1980.[16][17]
Lisin was sanctioned by Australia after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[18] He resisted calls to step down as president, supported by the Russian-born ISSF Secretary General Alexander Ratner – who claimed that neither had any links to the Russian government.[19]
Personal life
editLisin is married and has three children. According to Bloomberg L.P., Lisin bought the 17th-century Aberuchill Castle and its surrounding estate in Perthshire, Scotland in 2005.[20]
In March 2022 Lisin called for a peaceful resolution in a letter to staff at NLMK, writing that "Lost lives are always a huge tragedy that is impossible to justify. I am convinced that peaceful diplomatic conflict resolution is always preferable to the use of force."[21] However, in September 2022 it was claimed that NLMK had supplied materials to Russian firms involved in nuclear weapon development, and that tankers owned by Lisin had participated in evading EU sanctions by trans-shipping oil at sea to EU-registered vessels.[22][23][24] In October 2022 the US was urged to sanction Lisin.[25] Lisin and NLMK responded,[26] as was cited by The Times,[27] RFE/RL[28] and other outlets, with the following: "The Russian operations of NLMK are not capable of producing steel intended for military applications. Our operations focus solely on producing rolled strip steel intended for general civilian use. NLMK has never supplied military intended products to the Russian military-industrial complex. That said, NLMK cannot control end uses of its civilian products". As for vessels, the company sold them off as unprofitable in September 2022, according to Kommersant.[29]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Vladimir Lisin". Bloomberg. 10 November 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "20 богатейших российских бизнесменов в глобальном рейтинге Forbes". Forbes.ru (in Russian). 4 April 2023.
- ^ Russian Capitalist Wiki contributors (01-15-2014). "Vladimir Lisin" Russian Capitalist Wiki. (Retrieved 02-13-2014).
- ^ https://www.aoosk.ru/press-center/news/vladimir-lisin-izbran-predsedatelem-soveta-direktorov-oao-osk/ [bare URL]
- ^ "Путилин из "Роснано" сменил Лисина в совете директоров ОСК". Ведомости (in Russian). Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Владимир Лисин вышел из бюро правления РСПП". RBC (in Russian). 24 March 2023.
- ^ "Fletcher Group Holdings Ltd". www.fletcher.com.cy. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Структура акционерного капитала ПАО НЛМК". nlmk.com. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Лисин перевел активы с Кипра в Абу-Даби". Rbc.ru. 1 July 2023.
- ^ "World Economic Forum: Vladimir Lisin". www.weforum.orgaccessdate=16 October 2022.
- ^ "Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin Ph.D." Bloomberg. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Bloomberg : Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin Ph.D. Executive Profile[dead link]
- ^ "Alexander Ratner is the new ESC President". European Shooting Confederation. 21 October 2021. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Vladimir S. Lisin (RUS) appointed as a member of the ISSF Executive Committee". ISSF. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Profile of Vladimir Lisin on Forbes.com". Forbes. April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "ISSF General Assembly, day-1 wrap-up: epochal change for Shooting sport". www.issf-sports.org. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ David Owen (30 November 2018). "Lisin elected ISSF President following narrow victory over Rossi". insidethegames. Dunsar Media Company. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ Patrick Burke (15 April 2022). "ISSF President Lisin sanctioned by Australia over Russian war in Ukraine". insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media Company. Archived from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Michael Houston (26 March 2022). "Uninvited ESC President Ratner turns up at 10m European Shooting Championship in Hamar". insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media Company. Archived from the original on 26 March 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Ukraine war: Scottish firms urged to end all links with Russia". BBC News. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Grace Kay (9 March 2022). "Russian steel billionaire calls the invasion of Ukraine 'a huge tragedy that is impossible to justify'". Business Insider. Insider Inc. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Maksym Savchuk (30 September 2022). "Russian Oligarch Avoids Sanctions Despite Apparent Tie To Nuclear Weapons Industry". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Kostia Andreikovets (23 September 2022). "The corporation of Russiaʼs richest oligarch Volodymyr Lisin is involved in the production of nuclear weapons. He is still not under sanctions". Babel.ua. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ Maxim Savchuk (7 September 2022). "Russian tankers bypass the ban on entering EU ports - investigation". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 September 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ Duncan Mackay (31 October 2022). "Lisin accused of supplying steel for Russia's nuclear weapons programme as US and EU urged to add him to sanctions list". insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media Company. Archived from the original on 2 November 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ https://www.nlmk.com/en/media-center/press-releases/chairman-s-statement/
- ^ https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/russian-laird-vladimir-lisin-supplies-steel-to-kremlin-weapons-firms-td5qskb5x
- ^ https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-skhemy-lisin-yaderna-zbroya/32046732.html
- ^ https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5594774
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