Ella Pamfilova

Chair of the Central Election Commission of RussiaAssumed office
28 March 2016PresidentVladimir PutinPreceded byVladimir Churov4th Commissioner for Human RightsIn office
18 March 2014 – 25 March 2016PresidentVladimir PutinPreceded byVladimir LukinSucceeded byTatyana MoskalkovaChair of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human RightsIn office
6 November 2004 – 30 July 2010PresidentVladimir Putin
Dmitry MedvedevPreceded byOffice establishedSucceeded byMikhail FedotovMinister of Social ProtectionIn office
15 November 1991 – 2 March 1994Prime MinisterBoris Yeltsin (extraordinary)
Yegor Gaidar (acting)
Viktor ChernomyrdinPreceded byViktor KaznacheyevSucceeded byLyudmila Bezlepkina Personal detailsBorn
(1953-09-12) 12 September 1953 (age 70)
Olmaliq, Tashkent Region, Uzbek SSR, USSRNationalityRussianAlma materMoscow Power Engineering Institute

Ella Aleksandrovna Pamfilova (Russian: Элла Александровна Памфилова; born 12 September 1953) is a Russian politician, former deputy of the State Duma, candidate for president in 2000 and former chair (2004 - 2010) of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. On 18 March 2014 she became Russia's Commissioner for Human Rights, succeeding Vladimir Lukin. On 28 March 2016 she became the chair of the Central Election Commission.

Biography

Pamfilova started her career on the central repair and engineering works in Moscow as an engineer. She was also the first woman to head the country's state controlled pet food company "Belka," which she oversaw from 1984 to 1986. She went on to become a People's Deputy of the USSR and member of Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

During the period 1991 until 1994, she led The Ministry of Social Care under President Boris Yeltsin. Between 1994 and 1999, Pamfilova was elected three times as member of the State Duma.

In 2000 she was the first woman to run as a candidate in a Russian presidential election campaign. However, she faced stiff competition from Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky for the liberal vote, and her share of the vote was very low.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2004 she has been a head of Vladimir Putin's Human Right Commission.

At the State Duma session of October 7, 2009 an MP from United Russia, Robert Shlegel, proposed that the president dismiss Pamfilova from the Human Rights Commission for advocating Alexander Podrabinek's rights.^[1] The watchdog, led by Pamfilova, had called the protests “a persecution campaign … organized by irresponsible adventurists from Nashi” and said the activists were showing open signs of extremism.^[2]

Sanctions

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. ^[3]

In December 2022 the US imposed sanctions on Ella Pamfilova.^[4]

In January 2023 Ella Pamfilova was sanctioned by Japan in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine^[5]

References

External links

Media related to Ella Pamfilova at Wikimedia Commons

• Web-site of the Council on Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights
• Web-site of the Civil G8

Political offices
Preceded by Vladimir Churov	Chair of the Central Election Commission of Russia 28 March 2016–present	Incumbent