the Siberian Metallurgic Institute in 1979 with a metallurgical engineering diploma specialising in "Foundry of irons and non-ferrous metals". In 1984 completed Postgraduate study in UKRNIIMET by correspondence (Kharkov, Ukraine). In 1989 he received an MSc in Metal Engineering from the Central Research Institute of ferrous metallurgy named after I. P. Bardin (Moscow). In 1990 he received a Diploma of the Higher commercial school under the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade of People's Friendship Order, the training program "Administration and activity management of joint ventures in the territory of the USSR" (Moscow). In 1992 an MSc in Economics and Management from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). In 1996 a Doctorate of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS), Faculty of engineering mechanics and in 1997 thesis for a Doctor's degree in Metal Engineering. In 1999 was a professor at RANEPA and in 2005 received a doctorate in economics. He holds various patents for metallurgical processes and has published over 100 articles on metallurgy and economics, which include 15 monographs. He is a professor of the Academy of National Economy and the holder of the Council of Ministers' prize in the science and engineering (1989), the Honorary Metallurgist of Russia (1999), the Knight of the Order of Honour of the Russian Federation (2000) and the Knight of the Order of St. Sergiy Radonezhsky (2001). Sports Lisin is a shooting sports enthusiast. He was president of the European Shooting Confederation until October 2021, the Russia Shooting Union and has been appointed vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee. In 2013, Lisin was appointed as a member of the ISSF Executive Committee. He built one of Europe's largest shooting-range complexes in Lisya Nora, near Moscow. In November 2018, Lisin was elected president of the International Shooting Sport Federation, and succeeded Olegario Vázquez Raña, who had served as president since 1980. Lisin was sanctioned by Australia after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. He resisted calls to step down as president, supported by the Russian-born ISSF Secretary General Alexander Ratner – who claimed that neither had any links to the Russian government. Personal life Lisin is married and has three children. According to Bloomberg L.P., Lisin bought the 17th-century Aberuchill Castle and its surrounding estate in Perthshire, Scotland in 2005. Lisin was sanctioned by Australia after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In March 2022 Lisin called