Net worth $3.1B in early 2008 (Forbes), but this has declined substantially as a result of global financial unrest. Part owner of Moscow nespaper Novaya Gazeta, with Mikhail Gorbachev, and the London Evening Standard.
[1] Sat in the Duma as a member of the liberal A Just Russia party. Father: Evgeny Nikolaevich Lebedev (professor)
Mother: Maria Sergeyevna (scientist)
Wife: (one son)
Son: Evgeny Lebedev (b. circa 1980)
University: BA Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1982)
University: PhD Economics, Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System
Member of the Russian Duma (2003-07)
London Evening Standard Owner (2009-)
The Independent Owner (2010-)
Aeroflot 29% stake
National Reserve Bank (Russia) Chairman (1995-)
KGB Agent to Lt. Colonel (-1992)
KGB Agent London (1988-92)
National Investment Council (Russia)
International Institute of Global Development (Russia)
Russian Academy of Sciences Center of Problems of Integration, Institute of Economy
Russian Oligarchs
Official Website:
http://www.alebedev.ru/
Author of books:
100 Otvetov Moskvicham (trans. 100 Answers to Muscovites)
Diagnoz (2004, trans. Diagnosis)