Igor Sechin’s net worth is
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$169 Million
Get to Know Igor Sechin’s Background
Igor Ivanovich Sechin, born on 7 September 1960 in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Russia, is famously known as the president of the Russian state-controlled Rosneft oil company. He is also a close advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, widely regarded as the most powerful man in Russia after the president himself, with the Kremlin being one of Rosneft’s biggest stockholders. In 2015, Forbes magazine ranked him as the 42nd most powerful person in the world – only behind Putin.
How rich is Igor Sechin? Official sources estimate his net worth at $169 million. Recently, Sechin revealed that his annual salary is $11.6 million, making him Russia’s highest-paid chief executive. His assets include shares in Rosneft worth about $80 million. Although he does not have extensive assets outside Russia, publicly quoted personal assets related to Russian oligarchs are notoriously unreliable. Therefore, it would be no surprise if Sechin’s real net worth was many times higher, likely in the billions of dollars.
Igor Sechin’s Net Worth: $169 Million
Sechin’s family, who worked in a metal factory, encouraged his and his twin sister’s education. He began learning French at a local school and graduated as a Portuguese and French language teacher from the Leningrad State University in 1984.
In the late 1980s, Sechin worked in Mozambique and Angola, officially as an interpreter with Soviet trade and diplomatic missions, but possibly as the start of his career in the KGB. He is said to have served with alleged international arms dealer Viktor Bout in Mozambique during this period and was allegedly “the USSR’s point man for weapons smuggling to Latin America and the Middle East.”
From 1988 to 1991, Sechin worked in the foreign economic relations department of the Lensovet City Management Committee in Leningard (now St. Petersburg). He first met Vladimir Putin during a visit to Brazil in 1990 by Leningrad city officials.
Shortly after, Sechin joined the Leningrad City Council to work under Putin, and in 1996, the two moved to Moscow to work in the economics department of President Yeltsin’s administration in the Kremlin. When Yeltsin made Putin prime minister in 1999, Sechin became his deputy chief of staff. After winning the presidential elections in March 2004, Putin named Sechin deputy head of his administration. Nicknamed the president’s gatekeeper, Sechin oversaw all official visits and audiences.
In 2008, Sechin became Deputy Prime Minister, responsible for the energy sector, as part of Vladimir Putin’s second cabinet.
Since July 2004, Igor Sechin has also been the chairman of Russia’s biggest state oil company, Rosneft, from which point his net worth has grown exponentially. He took complete charge in 2012. In recent months, Sechin has raised his public profile but has not admitted to his multi-billion dollar fortune.
In his personal life, Igor Sechin was married to Marina Sechena, and they have two children.
- Structural Info
| Net Worth | $169 Million |
| Date Of Birth | September 7, 1960 |
| Place Of Birth | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Profession | Businessman, Russian official, CEO “Rosneft” |
| Education | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Spouse | Marina Sechina (ex-spouse) |
| Children | Inga Sechina, Ivan Sechin |
| Parents | Nina Sechina |
| Siblings | Irina Shtukina |
