Alexey Overchuk was born on 9 December 1964 in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, in what is now Ukraine. In 1986, he graduated from the K.A. Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy, specialising in economic cybernetics. In 1992, he defended his PhD thesis on "Organisation of management of cooperative form of farming in industrial agriculture" at the K.A. Timiryazev Moscow Academy of Agriculture, PhD in Economics.[2]
Since 1998, head of the department of state registration of real estate rights at the State Committee for Land Resources and Land Management (Roskomzem).[4]
In 2007, he became deputy head of the Federal Agency for Management of Special Economic Zones under Mikhail Mishustin, coordinating work to attract investors. Since March 2011 he has been deputy head of the Federal Tax Service. He coordinated and supervised the activities of the Department of Standards and International Cooperation.[5]
Deputy Prime Minister
Since 21 January 2020, he has been Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. Originally, Overchuk was intended to oversee IT issues, but these were distributed among other deputy prime ministers. His responsibilities in government include Eurasian integration, cooperation with international organisations (CIS, BRICS, G20, etc.) and planning and organising international events with the Prime Minister.[6]
