Alexander Temerko is a USSR-born British businessman in the energy sector, currently a director of the UK company Aquind Limited, which is responsible for building a power link between the UK and France.
Previously, he was director and Deputy Chairman of the UK-based company OGN Group.
When in Russia, he held senior posts in the Russian Defence Ministry in the 1990s and, from 1999, he was a senior executive and director at the Russian oil and gas company Yukos.
He has resided in the UK since 2004.
He became a UK citizen in 2011.
He is a member, a senior political activist of, and a major donor, ( more than £1.3 million),
to the UK Conservative Party.
He is a member of the advisory council of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
In November 2019 he called for a report on Russian influence in British politics, that had been suppressed by Boris Johnson, to be published, and denied he, Temerko, is a Kremlin agent.