Alisher Usmanov
Investor, Organization leader
1953 –
Who is Alisher Usmanov?
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov is an Uzbek-born Russian business magnate. According to March 2014 Forbes website data, the oligarch Usmanov is Russia's richest man, with a fortune estimated at $18.6 billion, and the world's 34th richest person. According to the December 2013 Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he has an estimated net worth of $19.6 billion, making him the 37th richest person in the world. In May 2014, The Sunday Times listed him as the second richest person in the UK with an estimated fortune of £10.65bn.
He built his wealth through metal and mining operations, and investments, and is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC METALLOINVEST’s assets with those of Gazmetall JSC.
He owns the Kommersant Publishing Houses. He is a co‑owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and co-owner of Mail.ru, the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world, which owns stakes in popular web portals like Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte and others.
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- Born
- Sep 9, 1953
Chust, Uzbekistan - Also known as
- Алішер Бурханович Усманов
- Усманов, Алишер Бурханович
- Spouses
- Irina Viner
(1992 - )
- Irina Viner
- Ethnicity
- Uzbeks
- Nationality
- Russia
- Uzbekistan
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
(1976 - ) - Academy of Finance
Banking
(1997 - ) - Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- Moscow State University
- Employment
- Founder, Metalloinvest Management Company LLC
(2006 - ) - Owner, Gallagher Holdings
- Founder, Metalloinvest Management Company LLC
- Lived in
- Moscow
- Russia
- Europe
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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