Career
He was awarded a doctor of economics degree and authored over 200 publications. He served as Finance Minister of Russia from 1993 until 1994, when he resigned. Fyodorov was Minister of Finance of the Russian SFSR (as a constituent of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) in 1990.
From 1991 to 1992 he worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.
In 1992 he became director of the World Bank. In 1998 becoming tax minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.
In 1994, he founded United Financial Group UFG, an investment bank which was later, in 2005, sold to Deutsche Bank. Fyodorov died from a stroke on 20 November 2008 in London, England, at the age of 50.
