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Alexander Viktorovich Temerko (September 9, 1961, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian and British businessman of Ukrainian origin. Currently a director of the British company Aquind Limited, he was previously a director and deputy chairman of the British company OGN Group (2008-2017). Former Vice President and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the oil company Yukos, accused in Russia of embezzling shares of OJSC Yeniseyneftegaz. He has been a British citizen since 2011.

Biography
Alexander Viktorovich Temerko was born on September 9, graduating from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering in 1987. During his studies, he worked in several Moscow youth organizations and headed the Center for Student Cooperation. In 1999 he also graduated from the Institute of Public Administration.

Temerko began his career in the field of environmental protection, first as chief engineer of capital construction in the USSR State Committee for Nature Protection, and then as head of the Department of Environmental Protection under the Ministry of Forest Industry of the USSR.

A supporter of the democratic movement, after the collapse of the USSR, Alexander Temerko became a key negotiator in the team that formed around Boris Yeltsin. In 1991, during the August putsch, he served as the headquarters of the defense forces, protecting the Russian White House from the military and acting as a negotiator with military personnel to convince them to remain neutral.

In 1992, he became Chairman of the Committee on Social Security of Servicemen under the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation (later under the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Defense Affairs, then under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation). The Committee was responsible for the pensions and quartering of the military, the solution of their social and domestic issues. Temerko oversaw the social problems of the Western Group of Forces being withdrawn from Germany. By the order of the President of the Russian Federation of April 4, 1992, as the head of the committee, he became a member of the State Commission for the creation of the Ministry of Defense, Army and Navy of the Russian Federation, and in August 1992 - a member of the working group to monitor the implementation by the executive authorities of the republics within the Russian Federation, regions, autonomous entities, cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg of repayment of housing debts of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 30, 1992 No. 1148 "On the Structure of the Central Bodies of the Federal Executive Power" The Committee on Social Security of Servicemen under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has been abolished, its functions are assigned to the Interdepartmental Commission on Social Issues of Servicemen and Members of Their Families headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

He continued his career in the defense industry. First, he began to create a state-owned arms export company Voenteh. In the spring of 1993, Temerko’s candidacy was lobbied by some high-ranking Defense Ministry officials for the post of head of the Federal Office for Export to Russia