Andrei Guriev

Russian billionaire, the former head of PhosAgro, one of the four largest producers of phosphate-based fertilizers in the world. He is vice president of the Russian Union of Chemists.

  • Andrei Guriev is deputy chairman of PhosAgro, one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate-based fertilizers.
  • A former communist committee leader in Moscow, Guriev became deputy director at financial holding company, Menatep Group, in 1990.
  • When his former boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest person, went to jail, Guriev led a buyout to control Menatep subsidiary PhosAgro.