Since the early 1990s, Sechin has been a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. When Sechin was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg in 1994, he was Putin’s chief of staff.
When Putin was elected President in 2000, Sechin was appointed as his deputy chief of staff, in charge of Russia’s security services and energy concerns. In 2004, Putin nominated Sechin as chairman of Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned oil firm.
From 2008 to 2012, he served in Vladimir Putin’s cabinet as Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister.
He presently serves as Rosneft’s chief executive officer, President, and management board chairman. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was sanctioned by a number of foreign governments. He is fondly called Darth Vader.
Sechin is regarded as one of Putin’s most orthodox advisers and the leader of the Siloviki faction in the Kremlin, which includes former security service personnel.
Igor Sechin children: Meet Inga Sechina and Ivan Sechin
Igor has a daughter, Inga, with his ex-wife Marina. She graduated from Saint Petersburg Mining University and currently works for Surgutneftegasbank.
Inga married Dmitry Ustinov, a Russian intelligence agent and FSB Academy graduate who is the son of former Prosecutor General and current Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov, in 2003. Dmitry and Inga had a kid.
After divorcing him, she married Timerbulat Karimov, a former investment banker and senior vice-president of VTB Bank.
His son from his marriage to Marina, Ivan, graduated from the Lomonosov business school at Moscow state university and works closely with Igor, as of 2018, as First Deputy Director of the Department of Joint Offshore Projects at Rosneft.
who is their mother?
Igor Sechin’s ex-wife Marina Vladimirovna Sechina is the main shareholder in Stankoflot and the President of the Russian Equestrian Federation.
Sechina earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Petersburg State University. She met her future husband, Igor Sechin while studying at the university, with whom she lived until their divorce in 2011. She worked in the real estate sector in St. Petersburg in the 1990s.
