Mikhail Pogosyan
Mikhail Aslanovich Pogosyan (born April 18, 1956, in Moscow) is a Russian aerospace engineer of Armenian descent. He is the former head of Sukhoi and the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and, since 2016, the rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI).
He graduated with honors from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1979, from the aircraft manufacturing faculty, and began his career at the Sukhoi Design Bureau. He worked there as a design engineer, then served as First Deputy Chief Designer (1992–1998), Chairman of the Directors Board (1995–1999), and General Director from May 1999.
Pogosyan holds 11 patents and has written 14 scientific papers. He won the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1997 and the Russian Government Prize in 1998. He has a Doctor of Science degree, is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and serves on the Russian Government’s Entrepreneurial Council.
He was appointed general director of United Aircraft Corporation in January 2011 and led UAC until January 2015. On June 16, 2016, he was named rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute.
Personal life: He is married with two children; his elder daughter Olga (born 1981) graduated from the Higher School of Economics.
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