In 1978, he graduated from the
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. From 1978 to 1989 he worked at the
Institute of World Economy and International Relations. In 1989–1991 he was a director of the Soviet owned
Donau Bank AG in Vienna and a managing director of bank's subsidiary company Inter Trade Consult GmbH. There are speculations that he had an undercover
KGB job because he worked at Donau Bank at the same time as
Andrei Akimov, another KGB officer and now
Gazprombank's chief. From 1991 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2002 he was director of the Austrian IMAG Investment Management & Advisory Group GmbH. Between 1997 and 1998 he was a vice president of the Eastern oil company (Восточная нефтяная компания) in Moscow. Since August 2002, Medvedev is the Director-General of Gazprom Export (former Gazeksport) and the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Gazprom. Between 2008 and 2014, Alexander Medvedev served as president of the
Kontinental Hockey League. He is also the president of
SKA Saint Petersburg hockey club and Russia's representative to the
International Ice Hockey Federation Council. In December 2008,
The New York Times reported that at one point Medvedev predicted Gazprom's market value would reach $1 trillion by 2014. In 2009, Medvedev stated an interest in acquiring one of three unspecified
NHL franchises. In May, he claimed that his representatives spoke with NHL Deputy Commissioner
Bill Daly, who refused to accept Russian ownership in the league. Daly denied ever being in contact with Medvedev and asserted that the NHL does not discriminate on the basis of nationality among its prospective team owners. Medvedev has played key roles in
Gazprom's opaque intermediaries such as
RosUkrEnergo,
Centrex Group,
Gazprom Germania, and
YugoRosGaz. ==References==