The EAG Chairman is Mr. Yury Chikhanchin (Russia).
Born on June 17, 1951 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
(1974) graduated from the Siberian Institute of Technology.
(1974–1978) worked as a foreman, site supervisor and head of the production planning department at various industrial plants of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
(1978–1994) employee of the State Security Agency.
(1994–2000) Head of the East Siberian regional office of the Russian Federal Service for Currency and Export Control.
(2000–2002) Head of the Currency Control Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
(2002–2004) First Deputy Chairman of the Financial Monitoring Committee of the Russian Federation.
(2004–2007) Deputy Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service.
(Sep. 2007– May 2008) Head of the Secretariat of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.
(May 22, 2008) - appointed Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service.
(June 13, 2012) - appointed Director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service by the President of the Russian Federation.
Actual State Councillor 1st class, Ph.D., holder of the honorary title "Distinguished Economist of the Russian Federation", recipient of letters of acknowledgement from the President of the Russian Federation and the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, as well as the Order of Honour and the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” 4th class.