Maxim Korobov

{{short description|Russian businessman (born 1957)}}

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Maxim Leonidovich Korobov (born December 3, 1957, in Moscow)[https://web.archive.org/web/20140304191746/https://www.usrbc.org/goverment/government/russian_government_state_duma/deputies_alphabetical/9 US-Russia Business Council biography] is a Russian businessman whose investments focus on the oil and gas sector. He is the controlling shareholder of SGO Sibgasoil Investments Limited,[https://archive.today/20140304145956/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=242503164 Businessweek profile] which has interests in Western Siberia.

Maxim Korobov served at various times as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss company Rosco S.A.; Vice President of Eastern Oil Company (EOC) and head of EOC Trading House; President of Tomsk Oil and Gas Company; and head of the oil and gas team at Rossiisky Kredit bank.[http://www.vedomosti.ru/persons/13056/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%20%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2 Vedomosti profile] He was appointed to the Board of Directors of Petroneft Resources plc on 25 April 2016[http://petroneft.com/news/2016/1135/ Petroneft Resources release] and elected to the Board of Directors of Petrosibir AB on 29 June 2018.[http://petrosibir.com/pressrelease/communique-from-annual-general-meeting-9/?lang= Petrosibir release]

Korobov graduated with honours from both the Military Institute of the Defence Ministry and the Russian Presidential Academy of State Service. He was also a researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and taught at the Military Institute. He holds a PhD in political science.[http://www.bfm.ru/person/302 Business FM profile]

Maxim Korobov was elected to the Tomsk Oblast regional parliament in 1997, and served as a member of the State Duma (Russian parliament) from 1999 to 2011, as a member of the United Russia party.[http://www.duma.gov.ru/structure/deputies/23840/ Russian Parliament website profile] As a member of the Duma's Committee on Power, Transport and Communications, he authored a bill proposing to end the practice of domestic roaming, whereby Russian mobile network operators charge higher prices to users travelling outside their “home” regions.[http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1641351 Kommersant newspaper: Внутрисетевому роумингу отменят плату]