German Khan

German Khan was born in 1961 in Kyiv

Khan was born on 24 October 1961 in Kyiv. His parents were Ukrainian Jews from Lviv, and his father was a professor of metallurgy. As a teenager he took up boxing.

He finished high school in 1978 and worked for a year in a factory. He studied mechanical engineering in Kyiv and later studied steel production at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, graduating in 1988. There he met Mikhail Fridman and Alexei Kuzmichev, who became his business partners.

After running a clothing cooperative, he joined Fridman at Alfa Eco, part of Alfa Group. He became its president in 1996 and moved it toward exports and oil trade. After Alfa bought a stake in TNK in 1997, he joined its board and later served as deputy chairman of its management board.

In 2003 TNK formed a joint venture with BP, and Khan was an executive director of TNK-BP until 2013. In 2013 TNK-BP was sold to Rosneft, and Khan joined Fridman in founding LetterOne in Luxembourg.

Khan is married to Angelika Khan and has 4 children. He received Israeli citizenship in 2017. After sanctions imposed by Britain and the European Union in 2022, he left London and moved to Moscow.