14 Facts About Grigori Marchenko

Grigori Marchenko served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan in 2004.

Grigori Marchenko is the Honorary Consul of the Singaporean Government to the Kazakh government since November 3,2006 as well as the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Spain in Almaty.

Grigori Marchenko won Euromoney's 2003 Central Bank Governor of the year award.

Grigori Marchenko was awarded with a breastplate "Honoured Employee of the National Bank of Kazakhstan" in 2012.

Grigori Marchenko was twice the chairman of the National Bank of the Republic Kazakhstan: from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2013.

Grigori Marchenko graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1984.

Grigori Marchenko studied at Georgetown University in Washington DC, United States in 1994.

Grigori Marchenko served as a Deputy Governor from 1994 to 1996 at Kazakhstan's National Bank, the country's central bank.

Grigori Marchenko was the non-staff advisor of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan from October 1997 until October 1999.

Grigori Marchenko worked as the first deputy Prime minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan from January 2004 till April 2004.

Grigori Marchenko was elected as a Chairman of board at a joint-stock company "Halyk bank of Kazakhstan", the position he held from January 2005 until January 2009 before being appointed a second time as the Governor of the National Bank of Kazakhstan on January, 22nd of 2009.

Grigori Marchenko gave a speech on "The development of Kazakhstan in the period of Globalization and the growth of financial markets" on 15 March 2006 at the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Aldwych, for the London School of Economics.

In 2011 Grigori Marchenko was put forward as a possible head of the International Monetary Fund by the leaders of governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States association of former Soviet republics.

Grigori Marchenko met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Putin's economic advisor Andrei Ilarianov, in May 2003.