Garry Minkh

Garry Minkh was born on 1 February 1959 to a German family. He graduated from Tomsk Secondary School No. 6. In 1981, he graduated from Tomsk State University with a degree in law. In 1988, he undertook postgraduate study at the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. He was part of the administrative and teaching work at Tomsk State University between 1981 and 1985 and 1988 and 1992. He currently teaches at the Faculty of Law at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and is a professor at the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law at the Higher School of Economics.

Since 1992, Minkh has worked in the Presidential Administration, where he held the positions of head of a sector, deputy head of a department - head of a sector, deputy head of a department - head of a department in the Main State Legal Directorate. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Deputy Head of the Main State Legal Directorate.

From 2002 to 2004, Minkh was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of Russia in the Federation Council. In 2004, he moved to the Apparatus of the Government of Russia, where he was Director of the Legal Department until 2009.

In 2004, Minkh worked in the campaign headquarters of Vladimir Putin, in 2008, he was the chief lawyer of the campaign headquarters of Dmitry Medvedev. On 12 February 2009, Minkh became the Plenipotentiary Representative in the State Duma.