| Alexander Rumyantsev | |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Office: | Ambassador of Russia to Finland |
| Predecessor: | Vladimir Grinin |
| Successor: | Pavel Kuznetsov |
| Term Start: | 21 April 2006 |
| Term End: | 14 August 2017 |
| Office1: | Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom |
| Successor1: | Sergei Kiriyenko |
| Term Start1: | March 2004 |
| Term End1: | 15 November 2005 |
| Office2: | Minister for Atomic Energy |
| Predecessor2: | Yevgeny Adamov |
| Successor2: | position abolished |
| Term Start2: | 28 March 2001 |
| Term End2: | 24 February 2004 |
| Birth Name: | Pavel Maratovich Kuznetsov |
| Birth Date: | 10 August 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Alexander Yuryevich Rumyantsev (Russian: Александр Юрьевич Румянцев; born July 26, 1945) is a Russian scientist, academician, minister, and ambassador.
Since graduating MEPhI 1969, worked in Kurchatov Institute researching nuclear physics. In 1994 was appointed as the director of the Kurchatov Institute. In 1996 was elected as the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and since 2000 is the academician.
In 2001 was appointed as the Minister of the Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, in the cabinet of the Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. During his tenure the Megatons to Megawatts agreement was renegotiated in 2002.[1] [2] Following the dismissal of the whole cabinet in February 2004 by the President Putin, the Ministry was reorganized into a Federal Agency on Atomic Energy where Alexander Rumyantsev was appointed as the CEO.[3] He stepped down from this post in November 2005 during the international scandal[4] involving his predecessor as a Minister, Yevgeny Adamov.
In preparation for his next job Alexander Rumyantsev graduated the Higher Diplomatic Courses of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian MFA in 2006, and was posted as the Russian ambassador to the Republic of Finland.[5] Later he was awarded the diplomatic rank of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in April 2008.[6]