2012 to the present:  Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.

2008 – 2012: Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

2004 – 2008: Head, Federal Service of Labor and Employment.

2001 – 2004: Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

1997 – 2001: Head, Social Department, Government Executive Office of the Russian Federation.

1996 –1997:  Consulting Expert, Social Policy and Labor Sector, Department of Labor and Healthcare, Government Executive Office of the Russian Federation.

1994 – 1996:  Expert-Specialist, Consultant, Labor, Employment and Migration Sector, Department of Labor, Healthcare and Social Protection of the Population, Government Executive Office of the Russian Federation.

1991 – 1994: Senior Researcher, Branch Head, Labor Research Institute, Moscow.

1988 – 1991: Post-Graduate Student, Research Institute of Labor at the USSR State Committee for Labor and Social Welfare, Moscow.

1988 – 1988: Junior Researcher, Research Institute of Labor, USSR State Committee for Labor and Social Welfare, Moscow.

1988: Graduated from the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy majoring in Economics.

PhD in Economic Sciences.