Viktor Grishin (economist)

Viktor Ivanovich Grishin (in Виктор Иванович Гришин; born 17 February 1951, Bolshebereznikovsky District, Mordovia, Soviet Union) is a Russian economist and politician, full Ph.D. in Economics, professor.

Early life
In 1973, he graduated from the Tomsk Institute of Radioelectronics and Electronic Engineering. From 1973 to 1984 he worked as engineer at various industrial establishments in Tomsk and Saransk. From 1981 to 1984 he attended graduate school at the Research Institute of USSR Ministry of Construction.

Career
From 1985 to 1988 he served as Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Mordovian ASSR.

From 1989 to 1992 he served as Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Mordovian ASSR for Economics.

From 1992 - Deputy Minister, then Minister of Economics, from May 1996 he became Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy of the Republic of Mordovia.

From 1999 to 2008 has been a member of the Russia's State Duma of the third, fourth and fifth convocations. He served as Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy, member of the Energy Committee, Deputy Head of the United Russia fraction in the State Duma.

From 2008 to 2020 he served as Rector of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

In January 2006 he became full Ph.D. in Economics.

Honors and awards

 * Order of Honour (2003).
 * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2015).

Family
Married with a son and a daughter, 7 grandchildren.