Igor Artemyev

Igor Yurievich Artemyev (; born 27 November 1961) is a Russian politician and government official. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Biography Artemyev graduated from the Leningrad State University Faculty of Biology and from the Faculty of Law of the St. Petersburg State University.

On 10 March 2004, Artemyev was appointed the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) by President Vladimir Putin through presidential decree No. 329-р. Artemyev was replaced in this capacity by Maksim Shaskolsky, the former vice governor of Saint Petersburg.

After this, Artemyev became an assistant to Russian prime minister Mikhail Mishustin. He worked in this position until the fall of 2023. In November, he resigned of his own free will, after which he took over as head of Saint-Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange.