Where is the Lebanese former Minister of Education now. Biography
Minister of Education and Science Dmitry left his post, an official was appointed in his place. Earlier today, unconfirmed information about the resignation of the minister, who has held this post since 2012, was leaked to the media. The fact that the resignation of the head of the department was already discussed the day before was confirmed to Gazeta.Ru by two sources in the education system at once.
"AT last days it was in the air,” a source in the Ministry of Education told Gazeta.Ru.
Shortly thereafter, the resignation of the minister was officially confirmed - it was accepted by President Vladimir.
The decision on this was announced by President Vladimir Putin in Crimea, where he arrived to meet with members of the Security Council, as well as to visit the All-Russian Youth Forum "Tavrida".
Vladimir Putin agreed with the proposal of Prime Minister Dmitry a to appoint Olga Vasilyeva, an employee of the presidential administration, as the new head.
At the same time, it became known about the new position of the former minister: Livanov will become the special representative of the head of state for trade and economic relations with Ukraine. “Okay, we will do that, I agree,” Putin said, responding to Medvedev's proposal during a meeting at the Belbek military airfield near Sevastopol.
At the same time, Putin dismissed the special representative for the development of trade and economic relations with Ukraine. The relevant decree published on the official portal of legal information.
At a meeting with the head of state, Medvedev noted that the government had intensified work on priority projects, including in the field of education. “In order to bring to life the ideas that have been formulated, new approaches and new powers are required, and in some cases new people,” the prime minister said. “To replace Dmitry Livanov, I would propose to appoint a woman, Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva, who has a good track record,” the head of government emphasized.
It is known that on August 20, Livanov was supposed to attend the All-Russian Pedagogical Meeting in, which is taking place these days. The Ministry of Education and Science reacted to the resignation in the following way: “The Ministry of Education and Science faces tasks aimed at developing education and science in Russia, including ensuring accessibility quality education for all segments of the population as the basis for social mobility, meeting the current and future needs of the economy and social sphere in professional personnel with the necessary qualifications, creating conditions for the development of continuous education, creating conditions for the development and effective use of scientific and technical potential. The Ministry is focused on fulfilling the tasks set and continues to work as usual, concentrating on the preparation educational organizations by the start of the school year.
The new position of Livanov - the special representative of the president for trade and economic relations with Ukraine - was previously held by former ambassadors in Ukraine: Mikhail Zurabov and . After the resignation of Mikhail Zurabov, Russia proposed a candidate to replace him, and the Ukrainian side refused to approve his figure. Therefore, at the moment, the interests of Russia in Ukraine are represented by a charge d'affaires, and the issue of appointing a new ambassador is suspended. Now, due to the absence of the ambassador, part of his functionality for trade and economic cooperation will be entrusted to Special Representative Livanov.
“As for the diplomatic representative, the ambassador (in Ukraine), we will talk separately. But the development of trade and economic ties should be in the field of our constant attention,” President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "Is not diplomatic work, and Livanov will now be engaged in purely economic relations, although in cooperation with the trade mission of Russia, ”explains the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru in the diplomatic environment. Before the Crimean referendum and the conflict in Donbas, Ukraine was one of Russia's leading economic partners. However, today the economic relations of the countries have degraded. The export of services from Ukraine to Russia in 2014 fell by more than half compared to 2013.
It is known that, as the Minister of Education, Livanov promoted quotas in universities for refugees from Ukraine.
In any case, Livanov will have to establish new connections in this country. Most of his acquaintances in Ukraine are Yanukovych government officials who left the political arena after the revolution. A Ukrainian political scientist suggested that Livanov would become Russia's unofficial ambassador to Ukraine, since Ukraine did not agree to Babich's candidacy. “Therefore, such a neutral option was chosen, an ambassador-understudy, an unofficial, illegitimate, non-status representative of the president, who will actually begin to pave the way to embassy functions and in fact, in many respects, he will play the role of an ambassador, ”the expert told Interfax-Ukraine.
The positions of Dmitry Livanov were among the weakest among the members of the government. United Russia regularly criticized Livanov in the Duma, at the beginning of the year his party " United Russia».
“Livanov's work does not find support in the party. We repeatedly criticized his activities, but there was no reaction, ”an interlocutor close to the leadership of the United Russia explained in February the negative attitude of the party members.
Unofficially, there were rumors in academic circles and those close to the Kremlin that the head of the committee on corruption or the chairman of the Duma committee on education could become the new minister of education.
Criticizing Livanov's speech at the government hour at the beginning of the year, Nikonov said that in his report the minister avoided the real problems that concern pupils, students, scientists and teachers - for example, lowering the literacy of young people entering universities, delays in paying salaries in the regions . According to him, “after it was forbidden to make business a nightmare, everyone rushed to make nightmares of schools, kindergartens and universities.”
The resignation may work to increase the rating of United Russia, political analyst Abbas is sure. According to him, much depends on the official interpretation of the resignation. “You should not hope that we supposedly dismissed an unpopular minister and that is enough. The very fact of his resignation indicates not only that the government is cleaning itself up, but also that there are serious problems in the industry. If serious explanatory work is not carried out, then the dominant point of view may become that all reforms in the education system have failed and the authorities are desperately looking for a switchman, ”Gallyamov argues.
Meanwhile, Livanov consistently defended the interests of the ministry in terms of funding.
As Gazeta.Ru found out, at the end of July, at one of the meetings with Dmitry Medvedev from the ministry, that in the event of a reduction in funding, already in 2017, it will be necessary to cut 40% budget places in universities, there will not be enough money for scholarships for students, and by 2019 10.3 thousand researchers from universities, the Russian Academy of Sciences and will remain without work.
During the reign of Livanov, there was also criticism of the minister from the scientific community, connected not only with the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For more than three years, the media have been constantly reporting scandals related to the written-off dissertations of various officials, but the fighters against plagiarism in dissertations were dissatisfied with the actions of the ministry to improve the situation.
Contrary to the requests of Dissernet activists, from January 1, 2014, the statute of limitations for appealing candidate and doctoral dissertations in Russia began to be ten years, while those who defended their dissertations before 2011 can now not worry about written off scientific work.
“I want to ask Vasilyeva the following questions: will you fire plagiarist rectors (more than 70), and if not, why not? Will you dissolve those dissenting councils that distributed false dissertations (the lists were transferred to the Ministry of Education and Science and the Higher Attestation Commission and were published on Dissernet many times)? Will you withdraw from the expert councils of the VAK those persons who contributed to the defense of false dissertations? asks the co-founder of Dissernet.
It is known that Olga Vasilyeva moved to the ministerial post from the position of deputy head of the public projects department of the presidential administration.
This department is headed , and the work of the structure is supervised by the first deputy head of the presidential administration .
Previously, Vasilyeva worked in the government's department of culture. In 2013, she gave a closed lecture on patriotism in front of Kommersant. At the lecture, the official talked about the unification of the people under Stalin during the war, this happened, in her opinion, through the popularization of pre-revolutionary Russian history and literature. One of Gazeta.Ru's sources describes her as the author of 160 articles and eight monographs, coming from a school and scientific environment.
According to the source, she interacted with the party in power, lectured as part of the Candidate project, and her “lectures were with shades of moralizing, looked like propaganda.”
At first, the new minister will have to make great efforts to gain support in this environment and prove his effectiveness, the deputy head believes.
Sociologists noted that Livanov is the most unpopular minister and most respondents rate his activities at two points.
Vasilyeva at the end of June spoke at the All-Russian Youth Educational Forum "Territory of Meanings on the Klyazma". According to the forum's website, she chose the history of "the formation of the national idea of Russia - from the period of formation to the present" as her topic. “Our country is the only country in the world that after 1917 in 1991 experienced the second socio-political crisis. Both in the post-revolutionary period until 1934, and in the period from 1991 to 2002, they did not talk about patriotism, the very concepts of patriotism, love for the Fatherland, heroism were eradicated, absent from the public mind, ”said the official.
On Klyazma, she talked about the patriotism of the heroes of the Second World War. “Vassilyeva, as a history teacher, noted the importance of addressing in this upbringing both to the biography of individual personalities of the military era, and to the heroes of our time, such as who died on March 17, 2016 in the line of duty during the battles for the city of Palmyra in Syria, or - Russian officer, who at the cost of his life saved the soldiers subordinate to him during the explosion of a combat grenade, ”the forum website says.
Two different sources of Gazeta.Ru reported that Vasilyeva is deeply religious and personally acquainted with Patriarch Kirill. Vasilyeva holds the position of head of the department of state-confessional relations at the RANEPA. The sphere of scientific interests of Vasilyeva is the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century, state-church relations in Soviet period. General experience work in the field of education is 36 years. Vasilyeva is a doctor historical sciences and a member of the International Association for the History of Religions.
The first deputy chairman of the synodal department of the Moscow Patriarchate for relations between the Church, society and the media said that after the appointment of Olga Vasilyeva to the post of Minister of Education and Science, the dialogue between the state will acquire a “more meaningful” character. “I have no doubt that the dialogue will be easier and more productive,” Shchipkov said.
The State Duma Committee on Education welcomed the news of Livanov's resignation positively. Committee member from Oleg Smolin added that he personally knows Olga Vasilyeva well
"as a person with a position in defense of Russian education."
“I understand that the minister is a partly forced person, he is obliged to play according to the rules that are proposed to the government team as a whole. But I hope that Olga Yuryevna will use her powers as a minister in order to preserve the best that is still left in our education system. I hope that the course of educational policy will be, if not changed, then at least significantly adjusted,” the parliamentarian stressed. He explained that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation hopes, in particular, that under Vasilyeva it will be possible to “initiate changes in the federal target program for the development of education” or at least stop the rate of reduction in the number of universities - according to , the five-year plan to reduce the number of universities and their branches has already “overfulfilled ”, and the communists hope that the Ministry of Education will at least slow down. The head of the committee, Vyacheslav Nikonov (United Russia), noted that Livanov and Vasilyeva " different people”: “Livanov is a tough technocratic leader who is used to pushing through his decisions, breaking through his knee. And Vasilyeva is a man of meanings, a man of dialogue, a conversation that will establish a dialogue with the pedagogical community.”
A family
Born in the family of an aircraft designer Viktor Livanov, future CEO aviation design office named after Ilyushin and one of the creators of the aircraft IL-96-300. Wife of Father Dmitry Livanov - Filippova (Rogozina) Tatyana Olegovna, was born on January 24, 1953 in the city of Chkalov, Doctor of Economics, President of the airline "Titan - Aero", is the sister of the Deputy Prime Minister. Livanov is married and has two children and one adopted son. Wife - Mordkovich Olga Anatolyevna, born June 15, 1967, in 1989 graduated from the Russian State University oil and gas named after I. M. Gubkin with a degree in applied mathematics, then received an MBA degree from the Moscow International Higher Business School "MIRBIS", in 2004 she headed the billing and IT department in a mobile operator Tele2 Russia. National Annual Award Nominee "IT leader 2012".
Biography
Livanov studied at Moscow School No. 91, in his certificate there were "five" in all subjects, except for basic military training. In 1990, Livanov graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys(MISiS), having received a diploma in the specialty "Physics of Metals", after which he studied at the full-time graduate school of the institute for two years. At the same time, Livanov himself claimed that after graduating from MISiS he worked abroad.
In 1992, he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences on the topic "Heat transfer by interacting electrons in superconductors and normal metals" and subsequently studied scientific activity in the field of transport properties of metals, fluctuation phenomena in superconductors, and also physical properties low-dimensional and amorphous metal systems.
After defending his Ph.D. thesis, Livanov began working at the Institute's Research Laboratory of Synthesis, was a researcher, later a senior researcher, and was an associate professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics at MISiS. He held positions in the Research Laboratory for Synthesis of MISiS until 2000.
In 1997, Livanov, having defended his dissertation on the topic "Thermoelectric effect and heat transfer in electronic systems interaction", became a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.
From 1997 to 2000, he served as Deputy Vice-Rector of MISiS for scientific work, and in 2000 he became Vice-Rector of the Institute for international cooperation, concurrently working as a professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics of MISiS.
In parallel with his work at MISiS, Livanov continued to receive education in the humanities and in 2003 graduated in absentia Moscow State Law Academy, having received a diploma in the specialty "jurisprudence" (specialization "Civil Law").
In the spring of 2004, Livanov left the vice-rector's post, having received the position of director of the department of state scientific, technical and innovation policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. In addition, he moved to work as a part-time professor at the Department of Metal Science of Non-Ferrous Metals of MISiS and retained this position until 2012.
From November 2005 to March 2007 Livanov was Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrey Fursenko. In this post, he became famous for his speeches in which an official of the ministry criticized the draft of the new charter. Russian Academy Sciences(RAN).
In particular, Livanov insisted that all state academies adopted a different, prepared by the Ministry of Education and Science, model version of the charter, which implied the separation of scientific and administrative functions of the academy, deprived it of the right to freely dispose of funds and required the introduction of supervisory boards with a predominance of state representatives. According to media reports, in RAS such an option was considered unacceptable and infringing on the rights of the academy, and Livanov himself was accused of trying to "collapse fundamental science."
Ultimately, at the end of 2007, the government approved the charter written by the RAS itself, however, due to the amendments to the law "On Science", the RAS partially lost its independence, losing, in particular, the right to independently approve its president and freely dispose of land property.
While working in the ministry, Livanov also acted as a representative of the state on the board of directors. JSC "Russian Venture Company"- a structure created in accordance with a decree of the government of the Russian Federation "in order to stimulate the creation in Russia of its own venture investment industry" by acquiring investment shares of venture funds, as well as "development of innovative sectors of the economy and promotion of Russian science-intensive technological products to the international market."
In April 2007, Livanov was elected rector of MISiS; was re-elected to this post in February 2012.
Under the new rector in the fall of 2008, MISiS by decree of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev received the status National Research Technological University. The press noted that as the head of the university, Livanov, who called himself a student of Andrei Fursenko, " began to implement the very standards of modernization of science, which he himself developed in the Ministry": in particular, MISiS "was one of the first to develop an independent strategy for the development of the university" and "switched to the system of undergraduate and graduate programs."
Politics
May 21, 2012, after taking office Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term as President of Russia, and the appointment of Medvedev as Prime Minister, Livanov replaced Fursenko as Minister of Education and Science in the new government of the Russian Federation.
After his appointment, Livanov made a number of policy statements. In particular, the minister's proposal to halve the number of state-funded places in Russian universities and gradually abandon free higher education in general, using other mechanisms to finance the training of new specialists, including educational loans.
Meanwhile, even before his appointment as head of the department, Livanov opposed an increase in the number of students in universities, believing that an overabundance of students in higher education deprives prestige, in particular, education in technical schools. He urged universities to switch to standard foreign testing systems, for example, in English.
Livanov also continued to criticize the RAS, demanding further reform of the academy: he noted that the academy lags behind universities in scientific publications, and experts, commenting on the appointment of Livanov, suggested that new minister, may again enter into a tough conflict with the RAS. They also drew attention to the fact that Livanov will have to be responsible for the adoption of a new law "On Education", developed under Fursenko.
In mid-September 2012, President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on the draft budget for 2013-2015 For years, he said that he was dissatisfied with the implementation of his instructions. In particular, in his decrees signed on May 7, 2012, Putin demanded an increase in the salaries of state employees, spending on contract military personnel, construction of roads and housing and communal services. It was noted that these decrees were based on presidential campaign promises, and their implementation would require 1,077 trillion rubles of budgetary funds. However, the new budget, on the contrary, implied a reduction in spending on health care, education and culture.
As a result, on September 19, 2012, Putin reprimanded Livanov, as well as the heads of Ministry of Regional Development and Ministry of Labor, Oleg Govorun and .
In the autumn of the same year, Livanov and the department he headed were criticized after the list of Russian universities with "signs of inefficiency" published by the Ministry of Education and Science. It includes more than 130 higher educational institutions countries, including a number of well-known Moscow higher schools, such as the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Moscow Architectural Institute, the Gorky Literary Institute.
Those who published the lists were reproached for the incompetence and imperfection of their chosen methodology for evaluating universities, which took into account the number of square meters per student, but did not take into account "the demand for graduates by employers, the level of their employment in the real sectors of the economy, the volume of innovative projects."
In December 2012, Livanov criticized the law prohibiting citizens USA adoption of Russian orphans, introduced by a deputy of the State Duma from Ekaterina Lakhova. In response, Lakhova accused Livanov of incompetence in matters supervised by the minister, and also stated that he "does not understand what the Ministry of Education is." At the same time, according to the regulations on the Ministry, issues of children's rights fall within its competence, and one of structural divisions The Ministry of Education and Science is the Department of State Policy for the Protection of Children's Rights.
March 24, 2013, in an interview "Echo of Moscow" Minister of Education and Science called the Russian Academy of Sciences " inefficient, unfriendly to the people who work there, organization", said RAS" degraded in terms of scientific productivity", referring to the age of the leaders of the academy. In response, scientists demanded the resignation of the minister.
According to the respondents VTsIOM in March 2013, the Minister of Education and Science works the worst in the Russian Government (the rating was 2.6 points out of 5 possible). However, already in November 2013, Livanov significantly strengthened his position, taking 63rd place (plus 18 points) in the ranking "100 leading politicians of Russia" according to Nezavisimaya Gazeta (author - D. I. Orlov - General Director of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications).
On July 2, 2013, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov stated that he was not the author of the draft law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which caused a negative reaction in the scientific community.
July 9, 2013 Prosecutor General's Office made a submission to the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov - the supervisory agency found violations during the verification of the implementation of programs for the modernization of education systems in the Russian regions.
In February 2015, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation submitted a submission to the country's Minister of Education and Science, Dmitry Livanov, because his subordinates violated the rules on the state data bank on children left without parental care.
According to the department, the ministry, when processing data from regional banks, does not inform regional operators about the impossibility of including false or incomplete information in the federal bank.
On April 7, 2015, Livanov said that the Ministry of Education and Science plans to reduce the number of weak universities in the next two years and continue to support the country's leading universities. He noted that at the moment about a thousand universities of the Russian Federation need to be checked. This issue, according to Livanov, concerns work with a large number of non-state universities and various state branches, which, as the minister noted, are not able to provide quality education.
"There were five times more universities in the country than there were in the USSR. This happened because in the 1990s great amount non-state universities. Unfortunately, the monitoring of the quality of education that we conducted showed that a number of universities provide low-quality education. These are just diploma sales offices without establishing educational process, without qualified teaching staff, etc. That's why we are talking first of all, about the reduction of these non-state universities that provide low-quality education", - said Livanov.
In September 2015, Livanov said that in Russia, for the first time in 15 years, the number of scientists has increased: " In the 90s, there was a very strong failure, it was associated both with funding and with the loss of interest of young people in working in the scientific field. This led to a significant exodus from science of people who were engaged in it, to other fields of activity and to other countries.", said the minister.
Since then, according to him, year by year there has been a decrease in the number of people who are engaged in scientific research in Russia.
"In 2014, for the first time in 15 years, there was an increase in this number. We consider this an extremely favorable factor, evidence that the state policy in the field of science is being carried out in the direction of development", concluded Livanov.
Income
According to the anti-corruption declaration, in 2014 Livanov earned 37,5 million rubles. He is also the owner of part of the land plot of 160 sq. m (0.2 units), residential building 49.2 sq. m (0.25 units), owns two apartments with a total area of 249.9 sq. m and a garage of 20.7 sq. m.
Rumors (scandals)
In September 2013, a loud scandal erupted in the Ministry of Education and Science after the Moscow prosecutor's office discovered the theft of budget funds in the amount of about $1 million (30 million rubles), which occurred due to the fact that Dmitry Livanov illegally awarded a contract for the reconstruction of one of buildings of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS) to a certain company LLC "Teplokon".
Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov - Special Representative of the President for Trade and Economic Relations with Ukraine (since August 19, 2016). Former Minister of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Formerly Rector, Professor of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (now renamed NUST MISIS).He was included in the personnel reserve under the patronage of the head of state, became the creator of more than six dozen scientific research, and the compiler of the university textbook "Physics of Metals". In 2000, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2011 - the Prize of the highest executive body of state administration in the field of education of the Russian Federation.
However, the attitude towards the head of the department in society is ambiguous. Until 2013, he had the lowest rating among cabinet ministers. But then in the list of one hundred leading politicians from Nezavisimaya Gazeta, he rose by 18 lines and ended up at 63 positions.
The childhood of Dmitry Livanov
The future member of the government was born on February 15, 1967 in a family of metropolitan intellectuals. His dad, Viktor, was then in his last year at the Moscow Aviation Institute of Technology(MATI). Then, for about six months, he had an internship at the University of Oklahoma, later he became a well-known creator of the IL aircraft line, the general director of the Air Complex named after. S. Ilyushin, honorary aircraft builder, laureate of the State Prize. In 2014 he passed away.
Regarding Dmitry's mother, the information is taboo. But it is declared that the wife of the aircraft designer was Tatyana Filippova (before her first marriage - Rogozin), sister of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, born in 1953. She is a design engineer, received the Peter the Great award, and previously headed Titan Aero.
At the time of the birth of Dmitry Livanov, she was only 14 years old. But some bibliographers do not rule out the possibility that he may be her son, and the absence of information about the official's mother in official sources is associated with her extremely young age for childbearing and moral aspect.
But the main sources emphasize that Tatyana is not his own mother, without denying their very warm relationship. Dmitry has a younger sister, Daria, who was born in 1975. She graduated from Moscow State University and works as a journalist in the advertising field.
As a child, Dima went in for sports, music, studied at high school No. 91 with a mathematical bias, among whose famous graduates are the developer of "Tetris" Alexei Pajitnov, the poet Boris Pasternak and others.
The young man studied excellently, but did not receive a gold medal due to a low rating in military training. Then he entered the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS), where he qualified as a metallurgical engineer.
Dmitry Livanov's career
After graduating from a university in 1990, the young man spent 2 years (instead of 3) studying full-time graduate school, but lived and worked abroad. At 25, he became a candidate of technical sciences, at 30 - a doctor of sciences, and after another 3 years - vice-rector of his native university.
Some fellow detractors tied dizzying career young man, not with his outstanding abilities, but with the fact that he married the daughter of Yuri Karabasov, the rector and party functionary, who was his scientific adviser.
Being engaged in science at the Department of Theoretical Physics as a professor and acting as vice-rector, in 2003 he managed to graduate from the capital's law academy full-time, and was also registered as a candidate member of the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, but was not elected. In 2000, he was awarded the Gold Medal of this Center for Fundamental Research.
In 2004, another career take-off of the official took place - he was invited to work at the Ministry of Education and Science as the head of the department. In parallel, he began to work at the department of metallurgy of his native university.
Dmitry Livanov and Ivan Urgant write a dictation
From 2005 to 2007, he worked as Deputy Minister Andrei Fursenko and criticized the low scientific productivity of the RAS, its charter. Then he moved to the post of rector of MISiS.
Returning in 2007 from the chair of the Deputy Minister to his native land as the main leader, the initiative rector achieved the dynamic development of the educational institution and a more prestigious and higher legal status– National Research Technological University, which later included nine institutes.
His work to improve scientific center were noted by the country's leadership, and in early 2012 he became a member of the Cabinet of Ministers as head of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Putin reprimanded Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov
At the end of the same year, after receiving a reprimand from Vladimir Putin, he decided for himself that he must act much more actively. In 2016, he announced the department's ambitious plans for the year. They provide for the launch of the "Russian Movement of Schoolchildren", created in the image and likeness of the pioneer organization of the USSR, the opening of school museums, the introduction of " e-school”, measures to ensure the inclusion of domestic universities in the rankings of the best in the world, programs for teaching parents how to raise children.
Personal life of Dmitry Livanov
The head of the Ministry of Education and Science is married to Olga Anatolyevna Mordkovich, the daughter of the current head of NUST MISiS, Yuri Karabasov. She is a mathematician by profession, a graduate of the I. Gubkin State University of Oil and Gas. Later, the girl also acquired a universal qualification MBA degree in management, having studied at the MIRBIS international business school.
The wife of the current minister, after graduation, worked as an employee of Relcam, an Internet service provider company. Then she headed the department in the mobile operator Tele2 Russia, specializing in the most important component of its activity - billing and information technology. Later, she was appointed to the position of IT director of this telecommunications company.
The couple is raising three children - a daughter, Ksenia, and two sons, one of whom they adopted in 2007, at the age of one year. All the official's children are seriously and successfully involved in music and tennis. He is proud of their success, positions himself as an exemplary family man, regularly posting personal photos on Twitter.
Dmitry Livanov adopted a child
The minister is a supporter of sailing trips, he used to be a mountaineer. He likes English detective stories in the original. In addition to the language of Shakespeare, Newton and Conan Doyle, he also mastered Italian.
Dmitry Livanov today
On August 19, 2016, Livanov left the ministerial post and was transferred to the post of special presidential envoy for trade and economic relations with Ukraine. His place was taken by an employee of the Presidential AdministrationAugust 19 Russian President Vladimir Putin by the proposal Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov. He will become the special envoy of the President of Russia for trade and economic relations with Ukraine.
An employee of the presidential administration will be appointed as the new head of the Ministry of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva.
Livanov has served as Minister of Education since 2012. In his post, he was repeatedly criticized for reforming education and reducing the number of schools.
Dossier
Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov Born in Moscow on February 15, 1967 in the family of aircraft designer Viktor Livanov, the future general director of the Ilyushin Aviation Design Bureau and one of the creators of the Il-96-300 aircraft. Interestingly, the second marriage of Livanov Sr. is married to his own sister Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
Dmitry Livanov. Photo: RIA Novosti / Maxim Blinov
Education
He studied at Moscow School No. 91, in his certificate there were "five" in all subjects, except for basic military training.
In 1990 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys with a degree in metal physics.
In 1990-1992, he studied full-time graduate school at MISiS, while simultaneously working abroad under an experience exchange program.
In 1992 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on the topic "Heat Transfer by Interacting Electrons in Superconductors and Normal Metals".
In 1997 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on the topic "Thermoelectric effect and heat transfer in electronic systems with interaction."
In 2003, he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in absentia with a degree in jurisprudence (specialization in civil law).
Professional activity
From 1992 to 2000 - Researcher and Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Synthesis; Associate Professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics MISiS.
From 2000 to 2004 - Vice-Rector for International Cooperation; Professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics MISiS.
From 2004 to 2005 - Director of the Department of State Scientific, Technical and Innovation Policy of the Ministry of Education and Science Russian Federation.
From November 2005 to March 2007 he was Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrey Fursenko.
In April 2007, he was elected rector of MISiS and was re-elected to this post in February 2012.
On May 21, 2012, after Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term as President of Russia, took office and Medvedev was appointed Prime Minister, Livanov replaced Fursenko as Minister of Education and Science in the new government of the Russian Federation.
Among his resonant statements were a proposal to halve the number of state-funded places in universities and the gradual abandonment of free higher education, the transition of universities to standard foreign testing systems, and further reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
September 19, 2012 President Vladimir Putin announced a reprimand to Livanov for the untimely implementation of the instructions of the head of state. A year later, on October 1, 2013, Vladimir Putin lifted the disciplinary sanction, thereby annulling his decree.
Awards and titles
Awarded with the RAS gold medal for young scientists (2000).
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in 2011 in the field of education.
Family status
Married. Wife - Mordkovich Olga Anatolievna, born on June 15, 1967, in 1989 she graduated from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas with a degree in applied mathematics, then received an MBA from the Moscow International Higher School of Business MIRBIS, in 2004 she headed the billing department and IT in the mobile operator Tele2 Russia.
The family has two children and one adopted son.
Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation since May 2012. Previously - Rector of NUST MISiS (2007-2012), Professor of the Department of Metal Science of Non-Ferrous Metals of MISiS (2004-2012), Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation (2005-2007), Director of the Department of State Science, Technology and Innovation Policy under the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (2004-2005). Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov was born on February 15, 1967 in Moscow, in the family of aircraft designer Viktor Livanov, the future general director of the Ilyushin Aviation Design Bureau and one of the creators of the Il-96-300 aircraft. Dmitry Livanov studied at Moscow school No. 91, in his certificate there were "five" in all subjects, except for basic military training,.
In 1990, Livanov graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS), having received a diploma in the specialty "Physics of Metals", after which, according to his official biography, he studied at the institute's full-time graduate school for two years. At the same time, Livanov himself claimed that after graduating from MISiS he worked abroad. In 1992, he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences on the topic "Heat transfer by interacting electrons in superconductors and normal metals", and subsequently engaged in scientific activities in the field of transport properties of metals, fluctuation phenomena in superconductors, as well as the physical properties of low-dimensional and amorphous metal systems.
After defending his Ph.D. thesis, Livanov began working at the Institute's Research Laboratory of Synthesis, was a researcher, later a senior researcher, and was an associate professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics at MISiS. He held positions in the Research Laboratory of Synthesis of MISiS until 2000. In 1997, Livanov, having defended his dissertation on the topic "Thermoelectric effect and heat transfer in electronic interaction systems", became a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences,. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Deputy Vice-Rector of MISiS for scientific work, and in 2000 he became Vice-Rector of the Institute for International Cooperation, concurrently working as a professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics of MISiS,.
In parallel with his work at MISiS, Livanov continued to receive education in the humanities and in 2003 he graduated in absentia from the Moscow State Law Academy, receiving a diploma in jurisprudence (specializing in Civil Law),; some publications called "Civil Law" Livanov's specialty.
In the spring of 2004, Livanov left the vice-rector's post, having received the position of director of the department of state scientific, technical and innovation policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,. In addition, he moved to work as a part-time professor at the Department of Metal Science of Non-Ferrous Metals of MISiS and retained this position until 2012.
From November 2005 to March 2007, Livanov was Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko,. In this position, he became famous for speeches in which an official of the ministry criticized the draft new charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). In particular, Livanov insisted that all state academies adopt a different, model version of the charter prepared by the Ministry of Education and Science, which implied the separation of scientific and administrative functions of the academy, deprived it of the right to freely dispose of funds and required the introduction of supervisory boards with a predominance of state representatives. According to media reports, the Russian Academy of Sciences considered this option unacceptable and infringing on the rights of the academy, and Livanov himself was accused of trying to "collapse fundamental science", , , , , , . Ultimately, at the end of 2007, the government approved the charter written by the RAS itself,, however, due to the amendments to the law "On Science", the RAS partially lost its independence, losing, in particular, the right to independently approve its president and freely dispose of land property .
While working in the ministry, Livanov also acted as a representative of the state on the board of directors of the Russian Venture Company OJSC, a structure created in accordance with a decree of the Russian government "in order to stimulate the creation of Russia's own venture investment industry" by acquiring investment shares of venture funds, as well as " development of innovative sectors of the economy and promotion of Russian science-intensive technological products to the international market", .
In April 2007, Livanov was elected rector of MISiS; was re-elected to this post in February 2012. Under the new rector, in the fall of 2008, MISiS, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, received the status of the National Research Technological University. The press noted that as the head of the university, Livanov, who called himself a student of Andrei Fursenko, "began to implement the very standards of modernization of science that he himself developed in the ministry": in particular, MISiS "was one of the first to develop an independent strategy for the development of the university" and " switched to the undergraduate and graduate system.
On May 21, 2012, after Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term as President of Russia, took office and Medvedev was appointed Prime Minister, Livanov replaced Fursenko as Minister of Education and Science in the new government of the Russian Federation,,,,.
After his appointment, Livanov made a number of policy statements. In particular, the minister's proposal to halve the number of state-funded places in Russian universities and gradually abandon free higher education in general, using other mechanisms to finance the training of new specialists, including educational loans, received a great response in the press. Meanwhile, even before his appointment as head of the department, Livanov opposed an increase in the number of students in universities, believing that an overabundance of students in higher education deprives prestige, in particular, education in technical schools. He called for universities to switch to standard foreign testing systems, for example, in English. Livanov also continued to criticize the RAS, demanding further reform of the academy: he noted that the academy lags behind universities in terms of scientific publications, and experts, commenting on Livanov's appointment, suggested that the new minister might again enter into a tough conflict with the RAS,. They also drew attention to the fact that Livanov would have to be responsible for the adoption of the new law "On Education", developed under Fursenko,.
In the autumn of the same year, Livanov and the department he headed were criticized after the list of Russian universities with "signs of inefficiency" published by the Ministry of Education and Science. It includes more than 130 higher educational institutions of the country, including a number of well-known Moscow higher schools, such as the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Moscow Architectural Institute, the Gorky Literary Institute. Those who published the lists were reproached for the incompetence and imperfection of their chosen methodology for evaluating universities, which took into account the number of square meters per student, but did not take into account "the demand for graduates by employers, the level of their employment in the real sectors of the economy, the volume of innovative projects", ,.
Livanov in 2000 was awarded the Russian Academy of Sciences gold medal for young scientists, and at the end of 2011 he was awarded the Russian government prize in the field of education,,. Since 2009, the scientist has been on the top hundred list of the managerial personnel reserve compiled by President Dmitry Medvedev,.
By the time of his appointment as minister, Livanov had more than 50 scientific publications, he was the author of the textbook for universities "Physics of Metals", published in 2006,.
Livanov is married and has two children. He is fond of theater and loves to read detective stories on English language. In addition, he also speaks Italian.
Used materials
Galina Onuchina. The Yaroslavl government will come to the defense of its universities. - TVNZ(kp.ru), 04.11.2012
Nikolai Vasiliev. What will happen to inefficient universities? - Vesti.Ru, 02.11.2012
Yana Lubnina. "Putin has set an impossible task." - Kommersant FM, 20.09.2012
Putin issued a reprimand to the heads of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Labor. - RIA News, 19.09.2012
Dmitry Kazmin, Evgeniya Pismenny, Margarita Lyutova. Putin's election promises will cost the budget 1.077 trillion rubles. - Vedomosti.ru, 01.08.2012
Fursenko's successor will make education in universities paid. - NTV, 22.05.2012
Irina Ivoilova. Dmitry Livanov: "A C student has nothing to do in an engineering university." - Russian newspaper, 22.05.2012. - № 5787 (114)
Vasily Loginov. Congratulations to the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation DV Livanov. - School No. 91 RAO (91.ru), 22.05.2012
Alexander Chernykh. Science to win. - Kommersant, 22.05.2012. - № 90 (4875)
The government has been updated by about three-quarters. - IA Rosbalt, 21.05.2012