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About Simon Kukes
- Simon Grigorievich Kukes (Russian: ????? ??????????? ?????; born 5 December 1946) is a Russian-born American chemist and retired oil industry businessman.
- He immigrated to the US to work in the oil industry in the late seventies, and returned to Russia with AMOCO in 1995.
- He became vice president at YUKOS, president of TNK-BP from 1998 until 2003, and returned to head Yukos, replacing Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
- Officially retired he is still consulting oil businesses.
- He has contributed to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Elizabeth Cheney's 2016 run for a congressional seat.
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