Gerhard Schröder

Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder (German; born 7 April 1944) is a German retired politician, consultant, and lobbyist, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, he was also the Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). As Chancellor, he led a coalition government of the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens. Schröder was nominated to become a director of the Russian state-owned company Gazprom in February 2022, and he has been chairman of Russian energy company Rosneft since 2017. wiki