Education
All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering.
All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering.
In 1997, he was appointed as an assistant to the chief of the Russian presidential administration under Boris Yeltsin. He then went on to serve as a deputy chief from September 1998 to March 1999 and the Chief of Presidential Administration from 19 March to 31 December 1999. According to Tatyana Dyachenko, "At work he is like some complex well-maintained machine that does not know tiredness.
I sometimes don"t know how he can stand lieutenant"
Voloshin resigned on 29 October 2003.
Alexander Voloshin has been a non-executive director of Yandex since August 2010 after serving as an advisor to the company for two years. Since February 2012, Alexander Voloshin serves chairman of the board and independent director at Joint-stock company Freight One.
Voloshin also served as chairman of the board of directors of Uralkali from 2010 to 2014. Voloshin served as chairman of the board of MMC Norilsk Nickel from 2008 to 2010 and as chairman of the board of directors of RAO "UES of Russia" from 1999 to 2008.
Voloshin retained his position after Vladimir Putin became acting president on 31 December 1999 and was reappointed as the Chief of the Administration after Putin"s inauguration as president in May. Voloshin quickly became a core member of Putin"s team and was especially praised for his intellect and his ability to "devour work".