Fuad Akhundov, top manager of Uralzib bank, will be in charge of Akkuyu atomic power station in Turkey, reported the state company Rosatom.
He will start fulfillment of his duties on April 1, 2014
At present Akhundov is the chairman of Board of Directors of Uralsib Asset Management company and member of Board of Directors of Uralsib financial corporation.
From December 2003 till October 2006 he occupied position of the president and chairman of Board of Uralsib bank.
The previous head of the company Alexander Superfin will occupy the position of Vice President in Rusatom Overseas closed-type joint stock company JSC (he will be in charge of promoting Russia’s atomic technologies overseas) and will be in charge of development of Rosatom business on the North American market.
In October 2012 the former top manager of Uralsib group Anastasia Zoteyeva has become Executive Vice President- Director for Business Development and Sales of Rosatom Overseas. General Director of Rusatom Overseas Jomart Aliyev, who also worked in Uralsib in the past, has also been transferred to Rosatom as senior Deputy chairman of Board of Uralsib bank.
Akkuyu atomic power station will be built in Turkey on the BOO basis (build-own-operate) and the Russian side will own the atomic power station abroad. The cost of construction of the station is estimated at about $20 billion.
* Fuad Akhundov was born in 1966. He graduated from the Azerbaijan Oil Academy and has the International Business degree from the Texas University.
Akhundov has started his career in 1986 in the USSR Defense Ministry. Since 1991 he started working in the state agencies of Azerbaijan, where he occupied various positions in the State Committee for Economy and Planning and the presidential administration. In 1993 Akhundov was appointed deputy chairman of Central Bank of Azerbaijan and he headed the working group at the talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB). From 1995 to 2001 Ahundov occupied position of chairman of Board of the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) and after that he started working in the Russian financial institutions.
Since 2001 he occupied the position of senior Vice President of NIKoil financial corporation.
