For the Russian ice hockey player born in 1979, see Alexander Medvedev (ice hockey).Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev (Russian: ????????? ???????? ????????, Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedev) (born 14 August 1955 in Shakhtyorsk, Sakhalin Oblast) is the current Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom and since February 2019 he is the director general and president of the football club Zenit, Saint Petersburg.
Medvedev also served as Director-General of Gazprom's export arm Gazprom Export from 2006 until 2014.
He is a member of the Coordination Committee of RosUkrEnergo and a member of the shareholders' committee of Nord Stream AG, and was the first president of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), serving from 2008 until his resignation in 2014.