Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov is an Azerbaijani oligarch. He was the President of the oil company Lukoil from 1993 until 2022. As of September 2024, according to Forbes billionaires list by Forbes magazine, Alekperov has an estimated net worth of US$27.6 billion, making him the 3rd wealthiest person in Russia and the fifty-ninth in the world.